Ganek Family Foundation
New York, NY · EIN 45-3760732. Reported 134 grants totalling $4,736,401 to 78 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". Ganek Family Foundation checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
4 of the organizations Ganek Family Foundation funded make grants themselves, and it reported 5 grants totalling $830,000 to them. That is 31% of the $2,676,707 of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Communal Fund | federated giving programme | New York | $575,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| Goodnation Foundation Inc | grantmaking organization | New York | $150,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc | grantmaking organization | New York | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | Its form does not ask |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of | federated giving programme | New York | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $7,500 and $25,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $656,298.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts | Los Angeles, CA | $1,388,527 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Communal Fund | New York, NY | $575,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| City Squash | The Bronx, NY | $250,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Southampton Fresh Air Home | Southampton, NY | $221,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, NY | $176,347 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Aspen Art Museum | Aspen, CO | $162,500 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Citysquash | The Bronx, NY | $150,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Goodnation Foundation | New York, NY | $150,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Boys' Club of New York | New York, NY | $111,350 | 10 | 4 | 2024 |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $110,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| New York Presbyterian Fund Inc | New York, NY | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Third Option Foundation | Reston, VA | $100,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Center for Fiction | Brooklyn, NY | $62,500 | 5 | 3 | 2023 |
| Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach | Palm Beach, FL | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hanley Foundation | West Palm Beach, FL | $57,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors | New York, NY | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| House of the Speakeasy Foundation | New York, NY | $50,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ibg Foundation | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Meeting Street School | Providence, RI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene Inc | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Jewish Appeal | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Corporation of Yadoo | Saratoga, NY | $42,500 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Narrative 4 | New York, NY | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cmc Foundation for Change | New York, NY | $30,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Raymond F Gravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc | West Palm Beach, FL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The New York Public Libary | New York, NY | $29,317 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alzheimer's Association | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California Institute of the Arts | Valencia, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cancer Research Institute | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| San Francisco Museum of Art | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Bowery Mission | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Everglades Foundation | Palmetto Bay, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Mercantile Library | New York, NY | $25,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| World Central Kitchen | Washigton, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Literacy Partners Inc | New York, NY | $22,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bob Woodruff Foundation | Long Island, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| City of Hope | Wilwood, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Weill Cornell Medical College | New York, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Zoological Soceity of Palm Beach | West Palm Beach, FL | $19,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cox Science Center and Aquarium | West Palm Beach, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope for Depression Research Foundation | New York, NY | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Palm Beach County | West Palm Beach, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Downtown Community Television Center | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Henry Street Settlement | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jupiter Medical Center Foundation | Jupiter, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mount Sinai Hospital | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Heights Youth Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Palm Beach Police & Fire Foundation | Palm Beach, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Peggy Adams Animal Rescue | West Palm Beach, FL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Red Sneakers for Oakley | West Palm Beach, FL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ridgefield Library | Ridgefield, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Saint Joseph's Art Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southampton Hospital | Southampton, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Teach for America | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Museum of Modern Art | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Pga Tour First Tee | Palm Beach Gardens, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Public Theater | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Young Audiences Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| City Meals-on-Wheels | New York, NY | $7,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Teaching Matters | New York, NY | $6,060 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| ASPCA | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chapel and York US Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| David Lynch Foundation | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Book Foundation | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New York Soceity for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Peconic Baykeeper | Hampton, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Portland Community Squash | Portland, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Breast Cancer Research Foundation | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Farmlink Project | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The WNET Group | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Maysles Institute Inc | Harlem, NY | $4,900 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New Hope Charities | West Palm Beach, FL | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Ballet Theather | New York, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lake Agawam Conservancy | Southampton, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Jude Children's Hospital | Memphis, TN | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hampton Designer Showcase Foundation | Southampton, NY | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New York City Ballet | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Bone Marrow and Cancer Foundation | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
23 of 78 (29%) 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 42%, 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, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- The University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts
GIFT FOR PROGRAM SUPPORT - IMMERSIVE MEDIA LAB - Jewish Communal Fund
GIFT FOR OPERATING SUPPORT - City Squash
CITY SQUASH CAPITAL CAMPAIGN - Southampton Fresh Air Home
GIFT FOR PROGRAM SUPPORT - SPONSOR FIREWORKS - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
GIFT FOR OPERATING SUPPORT - CHAIRMAN'S COUNCIL 2020 - 2021 - Meeting Street School
FOR PROGRAM SUPPORT IN HONOR OF JULIE OSTROVER
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 84 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 27 | $1,080,163 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 37 | $1,150,957 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 33 | $1,007,564 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 37 | $1,497,717 | $15,000 |
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
55% of its giving went to organizations in New York.
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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. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Ganek Family 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: 880 Third Avenue, New York, NY, 10022. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
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