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Annabelle Foundation

Brooklyn, NY · EIN 85-3522306. Reported 109 grants totalling $232,000 to 79 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$232,000granted, 2021-2024
79recipients, as named on its returns
32%of grantees funded again the next year
$469,237assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Annabelle Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $2,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $5,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
104 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Sidewalk Samaritan IncShushan, NY$9,000332024
Staten Island Giving CircleStaten Island, NY$9,000332024
Brooklyn Book BodegaBrooklyn, NY$7,000222024
Power of Two a Project of the FundNew York, NY$7,000212024
Epic Players IncBrooklyn, NY$6,000332023
For the Better IncBrooklyn, NY$6,000332023
Literary Freedom ProjectBronx, NY$6,000332023
Read 718Brooklyn, NY$6,000332024
Urban Fairies of Staten IslandStaten Island, NY$6,000332023
Youth Justice NetworkNew York, NY$6,000332023
Star Lighthouse IncNew York, NY$5,000112024
Brooklyn Brook BodegaBrooklyn, NY$4,000222022
Delgracia CorpCambria Heights, NY$4,000222022
Expecting ReliefBrooklyn, NY$4,000222023
First Tech Fund IncBrooklyn, NY$4,000222023
Grandma's Love IncBrooklyn, NY$4,000222023
Her Village IncBronx, NY$4,000222023
Horizons New York CityBrooklyn, NY$4,000222023
Love Your Blessings and GrowthWest Babylon, NY$4,000222022
Meet the Writers IncBrooklyn, NY$4,000112024
One Love Outreach MissionPort Washington, NY$4,000222023
Start LighthouseNew York, NY$4,000222022
The Bonello FoundationBrooklyn, NY$4,000112022
Youthbridge NyNew York, NY$4,000222022
A Beautiful Heart MinistriesBrooklyn, NY$3,000222023
A Little Food and Community IncWest Babylon, NY$2,000112024
A Vision to EmpowerSpringfield Gardens, NY$2,000112021
Akeal Christopher Community CenterBrooklyn, NY$2,000112021
Alliance of Families for JusticeNew York, NY$2,000112021
Andromeda Community Initiative IncLong Island City, NY$2,000112022
Artistic Dreams International IncBrooklyn, NY$2,000112023
Astoria Food PantryAstoria, NY$2,000112023
Bay Ridge Cares IncBrooklyn, NY$2,000112024
Beyond the Block NycBrooklyn, NY$2,000112023
Bgc of Mercer CountyTrenton, NJ$2,000112021
Boys and Girls Club of Mercer CountTrenton, NJ$2,000112022
Brooklyn Kindergarten SocietyBrooklyn, NY$2,000112022
City GrowersBrooklyn, NY$2,000112024
Cypress Hills Local Development CorBrooklyn, NY$2,000112021
Dream Deferred IncLaurelton, NY$2,000112021
Dreamyard Project IncBronx, NY$2,000112022
Droste Mental Health Services IncNew York, NY$2,000112024
Galore Urban Tech IncRosedale, NY$2,000112023
Gigis Playhouse NycNew York, NY$2,000112022
Girl Be HeardBrooklyn, NY$2,000112022
Good CallBrooklyn, NY$2,000112024
Greater Chinatown Community AssocNew York, NY$2,000112021
Harlem Free Fight AcademyBronx, NY$2,000112022
Health for YouthsBayside, NY$2,000112021
House of Speakeasy FoundationNew York, NY$2,000112022
International Girls AcademyNewark, NJ$2,000112022
Jefferson Park Ministries IncElizabeth, NJ$2,000112021
Little EssentialsBrooklyn, NY$2,000112023
Migration Resource Center IncStaten Island, NY$2,000112021
Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Dma IncBrooklyn, NY$2,000112022
Ocean Bay Community DevelopmentArverne, NY$2,000112022
One World One Love NjSummit, NJ$2,000112024
Person Centered Care ServicesStaten Island, NY$2,000112022
Positive Women UnitedJamaica, NY$2,000112021
Power of TwoNew York, NY$2,000112022
Princeton-Blairstown CenterPrinceton, NJ$2,000112023
Reading 4 Smiles IncAstoria, NY$2,000112021
Sheltering Arm Children and FamilyNew York, NY$2,000112021
South Queens Women's MarchHoward Beach, NY$2,000112021
St John's Bread and Life ProgramBrooklyn, NY$2,000112021
Staten Island Not for Profit AssocStaten Island, NY$2,000112021
Success Garden Community GroupBronx, NY$2,000112022
The Bronx CanBronx, NY$2,000112022
The Coachman Foundation IncNew York, NY$2,000112024
Timikas Tutorial ServicesCambria Heights, NY$2,000112022
Triumph After Tragedy AlternativeBrooklyn, NY$2,000112021
United Community CentersBrooklyn, NY$2,000112021
Where Do We Go From Here IncJamaica, NY$2,000112021
Witness to Mass IncarcerationNew York, NY$2,000112022
You Gotta Believe the Older ChildBrooklyn, NY$2,000112022
Edeyouth IncRosedale, NY$1,000112022
Galore Ubran Tech IncRosedale, NY$1,000112022
King Fights CancerBellerose, NY$1,000112021
One Voice Goes a Long WayMaspeth, NY$1,000112023

21 of 79 (27%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 32%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 68 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Human Services
18 grants
Youth Development
9 grants
Arts & Culture
7 grants
Education
7 grants
Food & Nutrition
6 grants
Community Improvement
5 grants
Crime & Legal
4 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202131$61,000$2,000
202240$79,000$2,000
202323$45,000$2,000
202415$47,000$2,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

95% of its giving went to organizations in New York. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

New York
$220K
New Jersey
$12K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund16 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc15 shared recipientsThe New York Community Trust10 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust10 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program9 shared recipientsThe Hyde and Watson Foundation9 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Annabelle Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 9322 3RD Avenue 352, Brooklyn, NY, 11209. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 85-3522306 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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