The Howard a Glickstein Fund

Fred I & Gilda Nobel Foundation Inc

Oyster Bay, NY

The foundation supports organizations working on environmental protection and economic, social, and environmental justice, including immigrant and worker rights, community organizing, hunger and homelessness, and criminal justice reform. Its 2025 grants ranged from $8,100 to $48,100, with a median of $25,000, and went mostly to New York organizations, with some support in other states. It funds only preselected charities and does not accept unsolicited requests.

The Jeanine Heller Foundation Inc

West Hempstead, NY

The Jeanine Heller Foundation supports charitable organizations across varied fields, especially lesser-known and volunteer-run groups; recent grants have gone mainly to New York organizations, with others in several states. Its 2025 grants ranged from $2,000 to $180,000, with a median of $20,000, and it gives only to preselected organizations, not unsolicited requests.

The Commonwealth Fund

New York, NY

The Commonwealth Fund supports health care research, policy, and projects that improve access, care quality, affordability, and equity, primarily through grants to health care-focused organizations. In 2025, grants ranged from $75 to $2.35 million, with a median of $15,000; it funds work in the United States and supports international learning and exchange. It accepts letters of inquiry through its online portal on a rolling basis and responds to unsolicited proposals, generally from tax-exempt charities.

Enterprise Community Partners Inc

Columbia, MD

Enterprise Community Partners funds affordable housing and community development, including housing production and preservation, community organizations, capacity building, and related resident services. Its 2025 itemized grants had a median of $45,000, with awards ranging from $5,500 to about $13.6 million, and its work spans the United States. The profile does not state whether it accepts unsolicited requests.

Grafer Foundation

PRT Washingtn, NY

GRAFER FOUNDATION supported hunger relief and social services, children’s and humanitarian programs, literacy, conservation, and cancer research, with activities centered on Long Island and grants also going to organizations elsewhere. Its 2022 grants averaged about $243 (from $13 to $475), but its 2023 filing reported no grants or assets and said it planned to terminate; whether it accepts unsolicited requests is not stated.

Steven a Klar Foundation

East Meadow, NY

The Thomas Phillips and Jane

Telluride, CO

The foundation supports environmental health, equality and social progress, education, and youth, with grantmaking focused on New York, Colorado, Vermont, and LGBTQ communities. Recent grants ranged from $100,000 to $250,000 in 2023, though its 2024 filing reported one grant of $3.58 million. It funds only preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

The New York Community Trust

New York, NY

The New York Community Trust funds nonprofit programs in areas such as arts, education, health, the environment, workforce development, and youth development, including projects that improve services, build organizational capacity, or advance policy and systems change. Its competitive grants mainly serve New York City, Long Island, and Westchester, with some national and international environmental funding; the 2024 median grant was $20,000. The profile does not state whether it accepts unsolicited requests.

The Saltzman Foundation Inc

New York, NY

The Saltzman Foundation supports a range of causes, including humanitarian aid, civil rights, public safety, healthcare, education, and arts preservation, with most 2025 grant dollars going to organizations in New York. Its 2025 grants ranged from $3,030 to $1 million, with a median of $20,000; it funds only preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

The Ayuda Foundation

Atlanta, GA

Greentree Foundation

Manhasset, NY

Peter & Jeri Dejana Foundation

Port Washington, NY

The Peter & Jeri Dejana Foundation’s grant purposes are not identified in the available filings, which report giving directed to New York. Recent giving varied widely: it made one grant of $3.7 million in 2024, while in 2022 it made 131 grants averaging about $27,000; the foundation says it does not limit grants to preselected organizations and lists application materials, but does not explicitly state whether it accepts unsolicited requests.