Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in New York

9,875
foundations
$20.41B
grants paid, FY2022–FY2025
1,586
say they accept unsolicited
$9,611
median grant

Grantlas lists 9,875 foundations based in New York — 9,349 private foundations and 526 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from their 990-PF and Form 990 filings for FY2022–FY2025. Together they paid out $20.41 billion in grants in their latest filing year, and 1,586 of them (16%) say they accept unsolicited requests. The most common cities are New York (3,679), Brooklyn (992) and Buffalo (702).

1,586 of them say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Foundations accepting applications in New York.

Top 25 of 9,875 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 1,561 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in New York
Pfizer Patient Assistance Foundation IncNew York, NY$2,709$1.48B$178–$1.48BFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Ford FoundationNew York, NY$100,000$844.7M$45–$15MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Andrew W Mellon FoundationNew York, NY$500,000$555M$10,000–$8.6MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Carnegie Corporation of New YorkNew York, NY$208,000$174.4M$500–$3MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Mother Cabrini Health Foundation IncNew York, NY$200,000$172.6M$100–$4.2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Open Society InstituteNew York, NY$15,000$146.9M$13–$38MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation IncNew York, NY$100,000$90.3M$2,453–$16.3MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Alfred P Sloan FoundationNew York, NY$98,105$89M$10,000–$1.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Rockefeller Brothers Fund IncNew York, NY$60,000$60.4M$40–$4.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Surdna Foundation IncNew York, NY$78,000$56.5M$375–$4.1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Bernard and Anne SpitzerNew York, NY$25,000$55.6M$247–$10MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Henry Luce Foundation IncNew York, NY$50,000$49.3M$75–$1.3MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
M&t Charitable FoundationBuffalo, NY$46.2M$44.4M$44.4M–$48MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Shubert Foundation IncNew York, NY$35,000$42M$15,000–$371,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Pinkerton FoundationNew York, NY$75,000$40.1M$500–$850,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
William Randolph Hearst FoundationNew York, NY$100,000$34.9M$1,000–$2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Commonwealth FundNew York, NY$15,000$31.3M$75–$2.3MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Arcus FoundationNew York, NY$75,000$31.3M$50–$1.2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Park Foundation IncIthaca, NY$50,000$30.4M$50–$670,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Peter G Peterson FoundationNew York, NY$71,442$28.3M$2,000–$5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNew York, NY$35,000$27.8M$250–$750,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
New York Life FoundationNew York, NY$500$27.3M$500–$7.2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The John A Hartford Foundation IncNew York, NY$4,000$25.5M$100–$2.2MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Thompson Family Foundation IncNew York, NY$50,000$24.1M$5,000–$2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
American Express FoundationNew York, NY$40$23.2M$1–$3.4MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
  • A median grant larger than the grants paid is not a mistake: the grant schedule and the year’s total come from different parts of the tax filing, and a foundation can list a grant it approved in a year it paid out less.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2022–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.