Max and Sunny Howard Memorial Foundation
New York, NY · EIN 27-3130549. Reported 84 grants totalling $1,925,000 to 37 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
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 and Sunny Howard Memorial 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.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $20,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $100,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emunah | New York, NY | $365,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Tel Aviv University | New York, NY | $140,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| America Needs You Inc | New York, NY | $105,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Friends Neve Shalom-Wahat Al Salam | Gendale, CA | $105,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Compass to Care | Chicago, IL | $105,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Amit Children's Inc | New York, NY | $103,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Gimmel Foundation Co Guedalia | New York, NY | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Univ of Penn | Philadelphia, PA | $90,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Project Morry | Port Chester, NY | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New Israel Fund | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Gift of Life | Boca Raton, FL | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New York Common Pantry | New York, NY | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Alpine Learning Group | Paramus, NJ | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Illinois Holocaust Museum | Skokie, IL | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New York Cares | New York, NY | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hebrew Free Burial Assoc | New York, NY | $42,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Freind of United Hatzalah | New York, NY | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Yedidm Inc for Telem | N Miami Beach, FL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Compass to Care Childhood Cancer Foundation | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Prep for Prep | New York, NY | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Univ of Penn - Jewish Studies Fund | Philadelphia, PA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Israel Fund | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ilan High School | Ocean, NJ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation | Boca Raton, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Integrative Strategies Forum - Musical Seeds | Silver Spring, MD | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jewish Children's Museum | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ny Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Temple Sinai-North Stamford | Stamford, CT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bnai Brith Foundation at Brooklyn College | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hillel Brandeis | Waltham, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pef Israel - Sulam L'atid | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Penn Hillel Foundation | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Willow House | Bannockburn, IL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Impact Imaging Together Platform for Arts and Culture | Cambridge, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Integrative Strategies Forum Fbo Musical Seeds | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| March of the Living | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Masbia | Brooklyn, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
21 of 37 (57%) 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 70%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
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.
- American Friends of Tel Aviv University
STRUCTURED AS FOLLOWS: AS $10,000 TO THE ENDOWMENT FUND AND $30,000 FOR 10 HALF SCHOLARSHIPS - Compass to Care
RESTRICTED TO ACCESS LIFE PROGRAM - Univ of Penn
RESTRICTED FOR PENN FUND SCHOLARSHIPS - Gimmel Foundation Co Guedalia
RESTRICTED FOR BOTH AFTER-SCHOOL CLUBS AND THE SUMMER CAMP PROGRAM - Gift of Life
BONE MARROW SWAB TESTING AND SUPER DONOR COSTS - Amit Children's Inc
RESTRICTED FOR AMIT KAMAH JR & SR GIRLS SCHOOL COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 40 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 23 | $530,000 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 21 | $500,000 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 20 | $440,000 | $17,500 |
| 2024 | 20 | $455,000 | $17,500 |
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
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 62% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $20,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
- 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.
- 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 and Sunny Howard Memorial Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 355 Lexington Avenue 6TH Floor, New York, NY, 10017. 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.
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