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The Essex Avenue Foundation

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$68.6M
in grants paid
202
grants
85
recipients
2022–2024
filing years

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

  • $1.9M

    Escuela Comunitaria Del Bronx Bronx Community Scho · Bronx, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $1.0M

    The New York Foundling · New York, NY · 2024

    the Home of Integrated Behavioral Health and the Road to Success program

  • $1.0M

    City and Country School · New York, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $1.0M

    Breaking Ground Housing Development Fund Corporati · New York, NY · 2024

    Working Capital Fund

  • $750,000

    Health in Harmony · Portland, OR · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $750,000

    Ali Forney Center · New York, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $750,000

    We Care Solar · Berkeley, CA · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $700,000

    Women in Need · New York, NY · 2024

    programming and Emergency needs fund

  • $700,000

    Coalition for the Homeless · New York, NY · 2024

    Eviction Prevention Fund and General support

  • $700,000

    Refed · Chicago, IL · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $700,000

    Jubilee Justice · Alexandria, LA · 2024

    Black Farmers Rice Project

  • $625,000

    Greenwave Organization Corp · New Haven, CT · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $600,000

    Coral Restoration Foundation · Tavernier, FL · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $580,000

    Habitat for Humanity International · Charlottesville, VA · 2024

    to assist 10 Habitat for humanity statewide offices in starting-up solar programs in anticipation of the roll-out of the federal solar for all program, and to provide seed funding for future solar campaigns in additiona…

  • $530,000

    City Parks Foundation · New York, NY · 2024

    Tree Time Program: Sidewalk tree planting along Vandervoort Avenue in Brooklyn, NY

  • $525,000

    Trees for the Future · Silver Spring, MD · 2024

    Senegal program

  • $525,000

    Solar United Neighbors · Washington, DC · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $500,000

    City and Country School · New York, NY · 2024

    Caroline Pratt Institute

  • $500,000

    Council On the Environment · New York, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $500,000

    Billion Oyster Project · New York, NY · 2024

    Design & Permitting of Oyster Reefs

  • $500,000

    Bronxworks · Bronx, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $500,000

    Christian Herald Assn · New York, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $500,000

    Fauna & Flora International USA · Washington, DC · 2024

    Deforestation Prevention in the Annamite Mountains

  • $500,000

    Green City Force · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $500,000

    Project Drawdown · New York, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $500,000

    Refed · Chicago, IL · 2024

    Catalytic Grant Fund

  • $500,000

    Rethink Food Nyc · New York, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $500,000

    The Childrens Aid Society · New York, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $500,000

    The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation · Arlington, VA · 2024

    Working Farms Fund

  • $500,000

    The Dream Life Two Sixty · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $500,000

    Women in Need · New York, NY · 2024

    to continue the legal aid program and to address food insecurity

  • $500,000

    Wild Landscapes · Tallahassee, FL · 2024

    Green Heart of the Everglades project

  • $494,000

    Womens Housing and Economic Development Corporatio · Bronx, NY · 2024

    the emergency fund and general support

  • $410,000

    University of Maine Foundation · Orono, ME · 2024

    Kelp Strain Selection Laboratory and Production System work

  • $400,000

    Fauna & Flora International USA · Washington, DC · 2024

    Mangrove Projects

  • $350,000

    City Parks Foundation · New York, NY · 2024

    NYC Green Relief and Recovery Fund

  • $350,000

    Project Renewal · New York, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $300,000

    Earth Matter Ny · New York, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $300,000

    National Network of Abortion Funds · New York City, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $300,000

    Non Traditional Employment for Women · New York, NY · 2024

    General Operating Support, Emergency Fund, Expansion of Youth Programs

  • $300,000

    Native Renewables · Flagstaff, AZ · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $300,000

    New York Restoration Project · New York, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $300,000

    Cec Stuyvesant Cove · Long Island City, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $225,000

    Waterfront Alliance · New York, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $210,000

    Fund for Public Housing · New York, NY · 2024

    Sustainability Grant Management fund

  • $200,000

    Rare · Arlington, VA · 2024

    to support Rare's mangrove conservation and restoration efforts worldwide, including important mangrove areas of Brazil, Mozambique, and the Philippines

  • $175,873

    The Boma Project · Manchestr Ctr, VT · 2024

    Rural Entrepreneur Access Project in Turkana, Isiolo, Marsabit and Samburu

  • $171,555

    Cooperative Extension Association in the State of · Ithaca, NY · 2024

    Ag Energy NY and Expansion fund

  • $169,000

    Mott Haven Spanish Seventh Day · Yonkers, NY · 2024

    food fund

  • $150,000

    The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden · New York, NY · 2024

    Early Literacy Programming in the Bronx

  • $150,000

    Sure We Can · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $150,000

    Staten Island Community Job Center · Staten Island, NY · 2024

    Food & Hospitality Industry Workforce Development program

  • $150,000

    West Side Center for Community Life · New York, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $125,000

    International Refugee Assistance Project · New York, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $101,400

    Spanish Emmanuel Seventh Day Aventist Church · Bronx, NY · 2024

    food fund

  • $100,000

    The Boma Project · Manchestr Ctr, VT · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $100,000

    Abortion Care Network · Washington, DC · 2024

    Keep Our Clinics fund

  • $100,000

    Mangrove Action Project · Seattle, WA · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $100,000

    National Network of Abortion Funds · Beaverton, OR · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $90,000

    Doula Program To Accompany and Comfort · New York, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $80,000

    Survivor Fund · New York, NY · 2024

    Scholarship and training Funds

  • $79,752

    Yspaniola Incorporated · Jamaica Plain, MA · 2024

    Los Mina Literacy Program

  • $75,000

    Bronx River Alliance · Bronx, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $75,000

    Ocean Professional Theatre Company · Beach Haven, NJ · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $75,000

    Gowanus Canal Conservancy · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $50,000

    Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $50,000

    Hearts of Gold · New York, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $30,000

    Lower East Side Tenement Museum · New York, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $25,000

    Guardians of Flushing Bay · Woodside, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $24,000

    Survivor Fund · New York, NY · 2024

    Scholarship and Training funds

  • $20,000

    Wyckoff House & Association · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $20,000

    Reclam the Bay · Waretown, NJ · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $10,500

    Project Kare · Denver, CO · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $10,000

    Loyola University · New Orleans, LA · 2024

    Law Journal donations to Ugandan Universities

  • $10,000

    Alliance for a Living Ocean · Long Beach, NJ · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $10,000

    Mordecai Land Trust · Beach Haven, NJ · 2024

    General & Unrestricted

  • $6,500

    I Torres · Bronx, NY · 2024

    Hardship Assistance Grant

  • $2.9M

    Escuela Comunitaria Del Bronx Bronx Community Scho · New York, NY · 2023

    General & Unrestricted

  • $2.0M

    Breaking Ground Housing Development Fund Corporati · New York, NY · 2023

    2030 Fund

  • $1.3M

    Council On the Environment · New York, NY · 2023

    Composting Program

  • $1.0M

    The New York Foundling · New York, NY · 2023

    Home of Integrated Behavioral Health program and Road to Success Program

  • $1.0M

    Oyate Group · New York, NY · 2023

    General & Unrestricted

  • $1.0M

    City and Country School · New York, NY · 2023

    General & Unrestricted

  • $700,000

    Coalition for the Homeless · New York, NY · 2023

    Eviction Prevention Fund and General support

  • $525,000

    Trees for the Future · Silver Spring, MD · 2023

    Senegal program

  • $500,000

    Jubilee Justice · Oakland, CA · 2023

    Black Farmers Rice Project

  • $500,000

    Ali Forney Center · New York, NY · 2023

    General & Unrestricted

  • $500,000

    Refed · Long Is City, NY · 2023

    General & Unrestricted

  • $500,000

    We Care Solar · Berkeley, CA · 2023

    General & Unrestricted

  • $500,000

    Wild Landscapes · Tallahassee, FL · 2023

    Green Heart of the Everglades project

  • $500,000

    Christian Herald Assn · New York, NY · 2023

    General & Unrestricted

  • $500,000

    Solar United Neighbors · Washington, DC · 2023

    General & Unrestricted

  • $500,000

    Bronxworks · Bronx, NY · 2023

    General & Unrestricted

  • $500,000

    Billion Oyster Project · New York, NY · 2023

    Design & Permitting of Oyster Reefs fund

  • $500,000

    Coral Restoration Foundation · Tavernier, FL · 2023

    General & Unrestricted

  • $500,000

    Health in Harmony · Portland, OR · 2023

    General & Unrestricted

  • $494,000

    Womens Housing and Economic Development Corporatio · Bronx, NY · 2023

    emergency grants fund and general support

  • $450,000

    Women in Need · New York, NY · 2023

    general operating support and emerging needs fund

  • $450,000

    Women in Need · New York, NY · 2023

    Legal Empowerment for Asylum-Seeking and displaced families program (L.E.A.D.) and Food pantry stock fund

  • $400,000

    Grid Alternatives · Oakland, CA · 2023

    General & Unrestricted

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call. Most private foundations do not accept unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.