Top Giving Foundations: NY

Foundations have far-ranging interests. With some research, you’ll find one that's a “fit” for your work.

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They’re prescreened: they have a staff, issue RFPs, or otherwise indicate interest in receiving grant proposals. Some foundations are omitted, even though they award large grants, because they don’t accept unsolicited grant proposals. We list up to forty foundations for each state.

Foundation Name Total Annual Giving
The Ford Foundation $556,032,905
Jewish Communal Fund $451,187,386
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation $302,078,167
Doctors Without Borders USA, Inc. $240,642,551
The Simons Foundation $232,372,215
The New York Community Trust $222,557,108
The JPMorgan Chase Foundation $170,963,492
NoVo Foundation $159,396,172
Carnegie Corporation of New York $159,033,581
The Rockefeller Foundation $150,273,949
The Robin Hood Foundation $132,440,879
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) $105,519,668
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International $84,651,980
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation $84,532,909
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation $84,437,306
Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research $81,695,892
Citi Foundation $78,037,000
The Starr Foundation $73,122,951
Wallace Foundation $57,142,211
The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation $46,257,632
The William Randolph Hearst Foundations $45,675,000
FJC: A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds $42,430,072
MetLife Foundation $39,866,380
The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. $39,552,527
NFL Foundation $38,815,644
AVI CHAI Foundation $38,562,604
Surdna Foundation, Inc. $36,143,362
The Pinkerton Foundation $33,971,577
Arcus Foundation $32,932,994
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation $31,340,634
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. $30,706,826
PepsiCo Foundation, Inc. $30,389,744
The Shubert Foundation, Inc. $30,000,000
The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation $27,667,333
Gilder Foundation, Inc. $27,317,800
M & T Charitable Foundation $24,554,722
The Clark Foundation $23,743,934
Park Foundation, Inc. $23,641,017
Rochester Area Community Foundation $22,777,083
Wilmington Trust, M&T Charitable Foundation $22,775,716