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The Ted Snowdon Foundation

New York, NY · EIN 13-3948662. Reported 46 grants totalling $1,622,500 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$31,000median grant
$1,622,500granted, 2021-2024
41organizations funded
$2,890,977assets, 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. The Ted Snowdon 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.

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 $31,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $22,000 and $47,000; the smallest was $7,500 and the largest $80,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
14 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
20 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
11 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Point FoundationLos Angeles, CA$91,000332024
The Lgbt Community CenterNew York, NY$80,000112024
The Metropolitan OperaNew York, NY$75,000112024
New DramatistsNew York, NY$70,000442024
The Doe Fund IncNew York, NY$70,000112024
Lambda Legal Defense & Education FundNew York, NY$65,000112024
Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDSNew York, NY$55,000112024
Ballet HispanicoNew York, NY$50,000112024
Community Service SocietyNew York, NY$50,000112024
Contemporary American Theater FestivalShepherdstown, WV$50,000112024
New York City CenterNew York, NY$50,000112024
Signature TheatreNew York, NY$50,000112024
The Hetrick-Martin InstituteNew York, NY$50,000112024
Vineyard TheatreNew York, NY$46,000112024
The Foundation for National ProgressSan Francisco, CA$45,000112024
Transport GroupNew York, NY$44,000112024
GladBoston, MA$40,000112024
Learning Through An Expanded Arts PrograNew York, NY$40,000112024
Lgbtq Victory InstituteWashington, DC$40,000112024
Riverside Park ConservancyNew York, NY$40,000112024
The Great American Songbook FdnCarmel, IN$40,000112024
Ny Public Library for the Performing ArtNew York, NY$36,000112024
Callen-Lorde Community Health CenterNew York, NY$35,000112024
Gay Men's Health Crisis IncNew York, NY$32,000112024
Anchor HealthStamford, CT$30,000112024
Astraea FoundationNew York, NY$30,000112024
Gay & Lesbian AllianceNew York, NY$30,000112024
New York Youth SymphonyNew York, NY$30,000112024
American Civil Liberties Union FdnNew York, NY$25,000112024
Beth Morrison ProjectsBrooklyn, NY$25,000112024
SageNew York, NY$25,000112024
The York Theatre CompanyNew York, NY$25,000112024
God's Love We DeliverNew York, NY$22,000112024
Pont FoundationLos Angeles, CA$22,000112022
Lincoln Center TheaterNew York, NY$20,000112024
Mint Theater CompanyNew York, NY$20,000112024
The Public TheaterNew York, NY$20,000112024
National Alliance for Musical TheatreNew York, NY$17,000112024
The New SchoolNew York, NY$15,000112024
Wild ProjectNew York, NY$15,000112024
Kaufman CenterNew York, NY$7,500112024

2 of 41 (5%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Plus 107 grants to individuals totalling $2,992,000 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
18 grants
Education
4 grants
Civil Rights
3 grants
Health Care
1 grant
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant
Food & Nutrition
1 grant
Environment
1 grant
Housing & Shelter
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20212$37,000$18,500
20222$37,000$18,500
20232$42,000$21,000
202440$1,506,500$38,000

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

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 78% 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.

New York
$1.3M
California
$158K
West Virginia
$50K
Massachusetts
$40K
District of Columbia
$40K
Indiana
$40K
Connecticut
$30K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund26 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc24 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc24 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program24 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust20 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation19 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $31,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  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 The Ted Snowdon 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: 50 Riverside Drive 15-C, 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 13-3948662 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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