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Max Weintraub Foundation Inc

New York, NY · EIN 13-3980892. Reported 60 grants totalling $209,107 to 27 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$209,107granted, 2021-2024
27recipients, as named on its returns
73%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,033,821assets, 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. Max Weintraub Foundation Inc 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 $1,000 and $3,000; the smallest was $200 and the largest $25,820. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
10 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
42 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
5 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant

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
Congregation Ansche ChesedNew York, NY$85,357442024
American Jewish Joint Distribution CommitteeNew York, NY$19,000442024
Jewish Communities of VermontBurlington, VT$13,000332024
Razom for UkraineNy, NY$10,500332024
RebootWest Palm Beach, FL$10,000112024
God's Love We DeliverNew York, NY$8,500442024
Friends of Green ChimneysBrewster, NY$7,300442024
City HarvestNew York, NY$7,000442024
Hias Hebrew Immigrant Aid SocietyNy, NY$6,000222023
New Israel FundNew York, NY$5,500222024
Citymeals on WheelsNew York, NY$5,000332024
Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY$4,000442024
North American Conference on Ethiopian JewryNew York, NY$4,000222022
Pj Library in VtBurlington, VT$4,000112021
Doctors Without BordersNew York, NY$3,550332023
Joint Distribution CommitteeNew York, NY$2,500112023
Prep for PrepNew York, NY$2,500332023
Fshd SocietyNew York, NY$2,000112023
Westside Campaign Against HungerNy, NY$2,000222023
FocosGarden City, NY$1,500112021
Red Door CommunityNew York, NY$1,500222022
Jewish Board of Family and Children's ServicesNew York, NY$1,000112023
NacoejNew York, NY$1,000112024
Southern Poverty Law CenterMontgomery, AL$1,000112021
DorotNew York, NY$700112021
Planned ParenthoodNew York, NY$500112024
Gay Men's Health CrisisNew York, NY$200112023

16 of 27 (59%) 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 73%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. 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 47 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.

Food & Nutrition
11 grants
International Affairs
10 grants
Religion
9 grants
Education
7 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 grants
Health Care
3 grants
Human Services
2 grants
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202115$50,363$1,000
202215$50,554$2,000
202317$56,520$2,000
202413$51,670$3,000

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

87% 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
$181K
Vermont
$17K
Florida
$10K
Alabama
$1K

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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 Fund11 shared recipientsJewish Communal Fund10 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program10 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust10 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc10 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 Max Weintraub Foundation Inc'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: 140 Riverside Drive 11-F, New York, NY, 10024. 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 13-3980892 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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