New York · Nonprofit
THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC
THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,947,979 to it, the largest being WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ($13,117,910). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year. THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programTHE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$13M
Recipients
124
Contributions on record
$54M
Donors on record
91
Payments out are 0.23x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Women Donors Networkshared funders
- National Lgbtq Task Forceportfolio match
- Summer Fund IIportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 10% · 2019 10% · 2020 36% · 2021 19% · 2022 39% · 2023 39% · 2024 21% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $4.6M → $6.2M.
31 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $155k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest The Astraea Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
89% of THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 90 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Women Donors Networkshared fundersCA · backs 78 organizations that share your funders
- National Lgbtq Task Forceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Summer Fund IIportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pronoun Fka Tie the Knotportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Freedom for All Americans Education Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stonewall Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Freedom Together Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 158 organizations that share your funders
- The Heising-Simons Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 144 organizations that share your funders
- Ms Foundation for Women Incshared fundersNY · backs 88 organizations that share your funders
- The Nathan Cummings Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 118 organizations that share your funders
- Democracy Fund Incshared fundersDC · backs 75 organizations that share your funders
- Common Counsel Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 111 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17.0M on record.
- Agency for International Development$17.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC?
- THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,947,979 to it, the largest being WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ($13,117,910). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year. THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $53,947,979 in grants to THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC?
- WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $13,117,910 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 90funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing