Funder Standing / The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc

The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc

NY · EIN 237093201 · 100M+ · data as of FY2024
Adds new grantees regularly

82 of 243 organizations The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc funded in FY2024 had not been funded in the prior 3 years.

Across all compared years the rate is 29.8%. Foundations of a similar size sit at 33.0%.

The numbers

New-grantee rate
29.8%
Pooled across compared years
Median grant
$30,000
Range $500 – $800,000
Repeat-dollar share
83.2%
Dollars to prior-year grantees
Accepts unsolicited
Yes
Inferred from the filing — see below
Match rate
99.4%
Grant lines resolved to an organization
Filing years used
5
Consecutive returns on file

Who they funded in FY2024

RecipientAmount
NEW ISRAEL FUND$932,500
SOCIAL GOOD FUND$455,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$350,000
BEND THE ARC A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE$300,000
INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF-RELIANCE INC$250,000
PANORAMA GLOBAL$250,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO$225,000
EMERALD CITIES COLLABORATIVE$200,000
MAJORITY ACTION$200,000
THE SOLUTIONS PROJECT INC$200,000
THE CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE$200,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY$200,000
MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATIONnew$200,000
THE CHISHOLM LEGACY PROJECTnew$200,000
AMERICAN ECONOMIC LIBERTIES PROJECT$185,000
UNITED FOR RESPECT EDUCATION FUND$175,000
NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE$175,000
FINANCIAL SERVICES STAKEHOLDER PROJECT$175,000
FAIR COUNT INCnew$175,000
INITIATIVE FOR MEDICINES ACCESS & KNOWLEDGE (I-MAK) INCnew$175,000
ASHOKA$160,000
AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$150,000
JOBS TO MOVE AMERICA$150,000
KENTUCKY COALITION INC$150,000
PROTEUS FUND INC$150,000

Showing the 25 largest of 243 grants.

How to read this

Every US private foundation files Form 990-PF, and Part XV of that return itemises each grant it paid, with the recipient's name. Lining those lists up across filing years shows which organizations were funded for the first time.

That does work the application checkbox cannot. Whether a foundation says it accepts unsolicited proposals is self-reported and never audited. The grant ledger is behaviour.

What this page does not tell you. Whether your work fits what The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc funds — no tax return contains that. Whether anyone on your board already knows a trustee, which is how a great deal of foundation money actually moves. Or anything that has changed since the last filing, which runs twelve to twenty-four months behind.
Source. IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV line 3a (grants paid during the year), tax years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Excludes. Grants approved for future payment, which the return lists separately
Computed. 2026-08-03 · Next recompute. 2026-11-01
Distribution. GivingTuesday Data Lake mirror of the IRS e-file corpus

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