Funding search · EIN 237093201 · New York, NY
The Nathan Cummings Foundation
A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.
- 849
- grants reported
- $53.1M
- total given
- 2022–2024
- filing years
- $25,000
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.
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Funding pattern
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8 grants matching “environmental justice” · $481,150
- $100,000
Dogwood Alliance · Asheville, NC · 2024
Establishing community forests in environmental justice communities impacted by industrial logging
- $100,000
Namati · Washington, DC · 2024
Us environmental justice program
- $100,000
New York City Environmental Justice Alliance · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General support
- $25,000
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2024
2024-2025 funders for justice membership
- $96,150
Namati · Washington Dc, DC · 2023
Us environmental justice program
- $25,000
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2023
2023-2024 funders for justice membership
- $10,000
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2023
Funders for justice's eroding the power of police unions pre-conference institute
- $25,000
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2022
2022-2023 funders for justice membership
Top recipients
Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.
- New Israel Fund13 grants · $3.0M
- Social Good Fund9 grants · $1.4M
- Tides Foundation9 grants · $1.4M
- Allied Media Projects8 grants · $965,000
- Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice6 grants · $832,000
- Project South Institution for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide5 grants · $800,000
- Majority Action4 grants · $706,500
- Auburn Theological Seminary3 grants · $700,000
- Community Initiatives5 grants · $675,000
- Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors3 grants · $675,000
Giving over time
Grant history
The 100 largest of 849 grants.
- $900,000
New Israel Fund · New York, NY · 2022
General support
- $896,400
New Israel Fund · New York, NY · 2023
General support
- $800,000
New Israel Fund · New York, NY · 2024
General support
- $400,000
Social Good Fund · Richmond, CA · 2022
Rise up: nourishing the soul of jewish justice
- $350,000
Social Good Fund · Richmond, CA · 2023
Rise up: nourishing the soul of jewish justice
- $350,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022
Pop culture collaborative fund
- $350,000
Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
New york renews education fund
- $300,000
Color of Change Education Fund · Oakland, CA · 2023
General support
- $300,000
Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2022
Critical minded
- $300,000
Auburn Theological Seminary · New York, NY · 2022
General support
- $300,000
Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice · New York, NY · 2022
General support
- $300,000
Color of Change Education Fund · Oakland, CA · 2022
General support
- $250,000
Bend the Arc a Jewish Partnership for Justice · New York, NY · 2024
General support
- $250,000
Institute for Local Self-Reliance · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
General support
- $250,000
Panorama Global · Seattle, WA · 2024
Hyphen partnerships' initiative for inclusive entrepreneurship
- $250,000
Social Good Fund · Richmond, CA · 2024
Rise up: nourishing the soul of jewish justice
- $250,000
Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2023
Critical minded
- $250,000
Auburn Theological Seminary · New York, NY · 2023
General support
- $250,000
Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice · New York, NY · 2023
General support
- $250,000
Majority Action · Silver Spring, MD · 2023
General support
- $250,000
Project South Institution for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Gulf south for a green new deal community controlled fund
- $250,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2023
Pop culture collaborative fund
- $250,000
Center for Political Accountability · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
- $250,000
Majority Action · Silver Spring, MD · 2022
General support
- $250,000
Project South Institution for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Gulf south for a green new deal community controlled fund
- $250,000
The Center for Cultural Power · Oakland, CA · 2022
General support
- $250,000
The Climate Justice Alliance · Berkeley, CA · 2022
General support
- $225,000
Regents of the University of Colorado · Boulder, CO · 2024
First peoples worldwide
- $225,000
Open Markets Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
- $225,000
Regents of the University of Colorado · Boulder, CO · 2023
First peoples worldwide
- $225,000
Regents of the University of Colorado · Boulder, CO · 2022
First peoples worldwide
- $212,576
The Climate Justice Alliance · Berkeley, CA · 2023
General support
- $200,000
Majority Action · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General support
- $200,000
Minneapolis Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Groundbreak coalition
- $200,000
Partnership for Southern Equity · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General support
- $200,000
The Chisholm Legacy Project · Burtonsville, MD · 2024
General support
- $200,000
The Climate Justice Alliance · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
- $200,000
The Solutions Project · Oakland, CA · 2024
General support
- $200,000
Tides Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Center for working families funds green new deal network
- $200,000
Community Initiatives · Oakland, CA · 2023
General support
- $200,000
Fractured Atlas · Hartsdale, NY · 2023
Equality labs
- $200,000
Partnership for Southern Equity · Atlanta, GA · 2023
General support
- $200,000
The Center for Media Justice · Oakland, CA · 2023
General support
- $200,000
The Solutions Project · Oakland, CA · 2023
General support
- $200,000
Tides Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Center for working families fund's green new deal network
- $200,000
Uprose · New York City, NY · 2023
Sunset park solar
- $200,000
Common Future · Oakland, CA · 2022
Just futures
- $200,000
Community Initiatives · Oakland, CA · 2022
The chisholm legacy project
- $200,000
Dcr Group Llc · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Solar stewards marketplace
- $200,000
Maryland Philanthropy Network · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Revolve fund
- $200,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Media democracy fund
- $200,000
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United · New York, NY · 2022
General support
- $200,000
The Center for Media Justice · Oakland, CA · 2022
General support
- $200,000
The Solutions Project · Oakland, CA · 2022
General support
- $200,000
Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Green new deal network
- $180,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
Media democracy fund
- $175,000
Fair Count · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Defending american values coalition
- $175,000
Financial Services Stakeholder Project · Chicago, IL · 2024
General support
- $175,000
Initiative for Medicines Access & Knowledge (I-Mak) · Lewes, DE · 2024
General support
- $175,000
United for Respect Education Fund · Sacramento, CA · 2024
General support
- $175,000
Interfaith Center On Corporate Responsibility · New York, NY · 2023
General support
- $175,000
Kentucky Coalition · London, KY · 2023
General support
- $175,000
Possibility Labs · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General support
- $175,000
Advancement Project Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
- $175,000
Common Future · Oakland, CA · 2022
General support
- $175,000
Jews United for Justice · Washington, DC · 2022
Collaborative for jewish organizing
- $175,000
Kentucky Coalition · London, KY · 2022
General support
- $169,746
Partnership for Southern Equity · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General support
- $150,782
Clean Energy Works · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
- $150,000
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
Communities first
- $150,000
American Economic Liberties Project · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
- $150,000
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
- $150,000
Ashoka · Arlington, VA · 2024
Southern solutions for the good of all
- $150,000
Auburn Theological Seminary · New York, NY · 2024
General support
- $150,000
Jobs To Move America · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
- $150,000
Kentucky Coalition · London, KY · 2024
General support
- $150,000
Local Progress Policy Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
- $150,000
Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2024
General support
- $150,000
Proteus Fund · Amherst, MA · 2024
Reframe
- $150,000
The Center for Media Justice · Oakland, CA · 2024
General support
- $150,000
Tides Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
New york renews education fund
- $150,000
Uprose · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General support
- $150,000
American Economic Liberties Project · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
- $150,000
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
The supreme court and the consumer financial protection bureau
- $150,000
Asian American Writers' Workshop · New York, NY · 2023
General support
- $150,000
Clean Energy Works · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
- $150,000
Financial Services Stakeholder Project · Chicago, IL · 2023
General support
- $150,000
Firelight Media · New York, NY · 2023
General support
- $150,000
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice Community · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General support
- $150,000
Jobs To Move America · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General support
- $150,000
Local Progress Policy Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
- $150,000
People'S Action Institute · Chicago, IL · 2023
General support
- $150,000
Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2023
Liberation in a generation
- $150,000
Proteus Fund · Amherst, MA · 2023
Reframe
- $150,000
United for Respect Education Fund · Sacramento, CA · 2023
General support
- $150,000
Uprose · New York City, NY · 2023
General support
- $150,000
Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2022
General support
- $150,000
Asian American Writers' Workshop · New York, NY · 2022
General support
- $150,000
Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice · New York, NY · 2022
Jewish social justice roundtable
- $150,000
Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General support
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