291 Foundation | Foundation Profile

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EIN: 13-7298760

Foundation Overview

Based in New York, NY, 291 Foundation has awarded 169 grants totaling $1,408,863 to organizations in Connecticut, New York and 11 other states across the US. Individual grants range from $25 to $75,000, with a median award of $1,500.

Latest Tax Year
2023
Total Giving (all years)
$1,408,863
Total Assets
$0
Median Grant (all grants)
$1,500

Latest Form 990-PF Snapshot

Total Grants
34
Median Grant
$1,500
% Median Grant Growth
+46% (vs previous year)
Data extracted from IRS Form 990-PF filings. Last filing year: March 2026

Foundation Intelligence

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New Applicant Friendliness
Relationship-Focused: 24%

8 of 34 recipients (24%) were new grantees. Foundation strongly favors organizations with proven track records. New partnerships develop slowly over time.

Geographic Focus
New York

66% of grants are awarded in New York, with additional funding distributed across 12 other locations. The foundation balances regional focus with broader geographic diversity. Within New York, funding concentrates in New York (95%), Peachman (2%), Hudson (2%).

Funding Trajectory
+27%

Moderate 27% growth trend over 4 years suggests stable and gradually increasing funding capacity. This positive trajectory indicates reliable grant-making resources and sustainable philanthropic commitment.

Program Areas
General Purposes

Highly focused on general purposes with 100% of funding dedicated to this sector. This specialization indicates deep expertise and committed investment in the field.

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Grants & Funding

Analyzing past grantees provides valuable insights into 291 Foundation's funding preferences, organizational priorities, and grant making patterns. This historical data helps potential applicants understand the foundation's strategic focus and identify successful funding approaches.

Name Amount Location Purpose Year
Museum Of Modern Art $1,500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
God Loves We Deliver $1,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
Planned Parenthod Of Greater New York $1,500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
Habitat For Humanity $1,500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
Friends Seminary $10,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
Doctors Without Borders $2,500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
Uja Federation Of New York $1,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
Weis Wender Foundation For Children $5,150 Palo Alto, CA, US General Purposes 2023
Food Bank Of Nyc $1,560 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
Roxbury Public Library $511 Roxbury, CT, US General Purposes 2023
The New York Womens Foundation $1,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
Whitney Museum $600 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
Thirteen Pbs $1,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
Mt Sinai Medical Center $15,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
Apex Art Cultural Fund $75,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
Ackerman Institute $7,500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
Civitas $500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
Weis Wender Foundation For Children $5,202 Palo Alto, CA, US General Purposes 2023
The Good Dog Foundation $1,000 Hudson, NY, US General Purposes 2023
C-cap $2,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
Foundation Fighting Blindness $1,025 Columbia, MD, US General Purposes 2023
Apex Art Cultural Fund $50,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
Wnycwqxr $1,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
V Foundation For Cancer Research $1,000 Morrisville, NC, US General Purposes 2023
Guggeheim Foundation $1,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
Community School For The Arts $1,500 Storrs, CT, US General Purposes 2023
Community Service Society $400 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
Whitney Museum $625 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
Doctors Without Borders $2,550 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
Animal Medical Center $30,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
City Meals On Wheels $1,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
International Rescue Foundation $1,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
Apex Art Cultural Fund $2,384 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2023
American Promise Education Fund $3,750 Concord, MA, US General Purposes 2023
Kindfull Tanzanian Children $1,000 Boston, MA, US General Purposes 2022
Whitney Museum $600 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2022
God Loves We Deliver $1,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2022
Physicians Committee For Resposible Medicine $500 Washington, DC, US General Purposes 2022
City Meals On Wheels $1,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2022
Weis Wender Foundation For Children $262 Palo Alto, CA, US General Purposes 2022
Minor Memorial Library $500 Roxbury, CT, US General Purposes 2022
Wnycwqxr $1,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2022
Apex Art Cultural Fund $75,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2022
Friends Seminary $10,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2022
Museum Of Modern Art $1,500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2022
Food Bank Of Nyc $1,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2022
New York University $10,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2022
Ackerman Institute $7,500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2022
Mt Sinai Medical Center $2,500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2022
Institute For Exposomic Research $17,500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2022
Peachman Library $250 Peachman, NY, US General Purposes 2022
Roxbury Volunteer Fire Department $500 Roxbury, CT, US General Purposes 2022
Guggeheim Foundation $800 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2022
The Metropolitan Museum Of Art $1,200 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2022
Weis Wender Foundation For Children $5,150 Palo Alto, CA, US General Purposes 2022
C-cap $1,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2022
International Rescue Foundation $2,580 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2022
Foundation Fighting Blindness $1,025 Columbia, MD, US General Purposes 2022
Animal Medical Center $30,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2022
Weis Wender Foundation For Children $12,500 Palo Alto, CA, US General Purposes 2022
Ace Foundation $30,000 Brooklyn, NY, US General Purposes 2022
Community Service Society $300 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2022
Community For The Homeless $1,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2022
Apex Art Cultural Fund $50,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2022
Geisinger Health Foundation $10,000 Danville, PA, US General Purposes 2022
Minor Memorial Library $500 Roxbury, CT, US General Purposes 2021
Food Bank Of Nyc $2,500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2021
City Meals On Wheels $2,500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2021
Doctors Without Borders $2,500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2021
Weis Wender Foundation For Children $105 Palo Alto, CA, US General Purposes 2021
Friends Seminary $10,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2021
Museum Of Modern Art $1,500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2021
Whitney Museum $600 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2021
Ackerman Institute $7,500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2021
Feeding America $2,500 Chicago, IL, US General Purposes 2021
Physicians Committee For Resposible Medicine $500 Washington, DC, US General Purposes 2021
Kindful Tanzanian Children $1,000 Boston, MA, US General Purposes 2021
Wnycwqxr $1,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2021
God Loves We Deliver $1,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2021
Bideawee $1,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2021
Peachman Library $150 Peachman, NY, US General Purposes 2021
Apex Art Cultural Fund $75,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2021
Mt Sinai Medical Center $5,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2021
C-cap $2,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2021
The Good Dog Foundation $1,000 Hudson, NY, US General Purposes 2021
Guggeheim Foundation $600 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2021
The Metropolitan Museum Of Art $600 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2021
Foundation Fighting Blindness $1,025 Columbia, MD, US General Purposes 2021
Animal Medical Center $1,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2021
Oxfam America $600 Boston, MA, US General Purposes 2021
Weis Wender Foundation For Children $5,150 Palo Alto, CA, US General Purposes 2021
World Central Kitchen $2,100 Washington, DC, US General Purposes 2021
Community Service Society $259 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2021
Animal Medical Center $30,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2021
Leadership Enterprise For A Diverse America $250 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2021
Weis Wender Foundation For Children $262 Palo Alto, CA, US General Purposes 2021
International Rescue Foundation $2,575 Albert Lea, MN, US General Purposes 2021
Habitat For Humanity $1,500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2021
Roxbury Ambulance Corp $500 Roxbury, CT, US General Purposes 2021
Civitas $500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2021
Geisinger Health Foundation $25,000 Danville, PA, US General Purposes 2021
Weis Wender Foundation For Children $25,000 Palo Alto, CA, US General Purposes 2021
Association Of Community Employment Programs $50,000 Long Island City, NY, US General Purposes 2021
Apex Art Cultural Fund $60,000 New York, NY, US General Purposesgeneral Purposes 2020
Apex Art Cultural Fund $75,000 New York, NY, US General Purposesgeneral Purposes 2020
Apex Art Cultural Fund $75,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2020
Apex Art Cultural Fund $50,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2020
C-cap $1,036 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2020
City Meals On Wheels $2,540 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2020
Food Bank Of Nyc $2,500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2020
Friends Of Roxbury Library $25 Roxbury, CT, US General Purposes 2020
Friends Seminary $10,000 New York, NY, US General Purposesgeneral Purposesgeneral Purposes 2020
God Loves We Deliver $2,100 New York, NY, US General Purposesgeneral Purposes 2020
Guggenheim Museum $600 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2020
Habitat For Humanity $1,500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2020
International Rescue Foundation $2,580 Albert Lea, MN, US General Purposes 2020
Minor Memorial Library $500 Roxbury, CT, US General Purposes 2020
Mt Sinai Medical Center $20,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2020
Moma Giving $1,500 New York, NY, US General Purposesgeneral Purposes 2020
Dollywood Foundation $1,000 Pigeon Forge, TN, US General Purposes 2020
Physicians Committee For Repsonisble Medicine $500 Washington, DC, US General Purposesgeneral Purposes 2020
Roxbury Land Trust $1,000 Roxbury, CT, US General Purposes 2020
Roxbury Ambulance $500 Roxbury, CT, US General Purposes 2020
Roxbury Volunteer Fire Department $500 Roxbury, CT, US General Purposes 2020
Wender Weis Foundation For Children $515 Palo Alto, CA, US General Purposes 2020
Wender Weis Foundation For Children $18,023 Palo Alto, CA, US General Purposes 2020
Whitney Museum $600 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2020
Wnycwqxr $1,500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2020
Foundation For Fighting Blindness $1,025 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2020
Civatas $250 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2020
Feeding America $2,500 Chicago, IL, US General Purposesgeneral Purposes 2020
Wender Weis Foundation For Children $5,150 Palo Alto, CA, US General Purposesgeneral Purposes 2020
Ackerman Insitute $5,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2020
Tanzanania Chilrens Fund $1,000 Boston, MA, US General Purposes 2020
St Jude Chilrens Research $500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2020
Animal Medical Center $25,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2020
The Ace Foundation $50,000 Tenafly, NJ, US General Purposes 2020
Friends Of Roxbury Senior Center $500 Roxbury, CT, US General Purposes 2019
Whitney Museum $600 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2019
Friends Seminary $10,000 New York, NY, US General Purposesgeneral Purposes 2019
Oxfam Foundation $2,000 Boston, MA, US General Purposes 2019
City Meals On Wheels $2,574 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2019
Network For Good $2,500 Washington, DC, US General Purposesgeneral Purposes 2019
Apex Art Cultural Fund $50,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2019
C-cap $2,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2019
God Loves We Deliver $2,000 New York, NY, US General Purposesgeneral Purposes 2019
The Feather Foundation $100 Maplewood, NJ, US General Purposes 2019
Guggenheim Museum $600 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2019
Food Bank Of Nyc $2,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2019
Doctors Without Borders $2,500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2019
Physicians Committee For Repsonisble Medicine $500 Washington, DC, US General Purposesgeneral Purposes 2019
Mt Sinai Medical Center $20,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2019
Apex Art Cultural Fund $75,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2019
Wender Weis Foundation For Children $5,000 Palo Alto, CA, US General Purposes 2019
Bid A Wee $1,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2019
Wnycwqxr $2,500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2019
Project Ledo $500 Portland, OR, US General Purposes 2019
Roxbury Volunteer Fire Department $500 Roxbury, CT, US General Purposes 2019
Roxbury Ambulance Corp $500 Roxbury, CT, US General Purposes 2019
Habitat For Humanity $2,500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2019
Wnycwqxr $1,012 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2019
Coalition For The Homeless $2,000 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2019
Food Bank Of Nyc $2,500 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2019
Wender Weis Foundation For Children $158 Palo Alto, CA, US General Purposes 2019
International Rescue Foundation $2,575 Albert Lea, MN, US General Purposes 2019
Common Cause $1,500 Washington, DC, US General Purposes 2019
Metropolitan Museum Of Art $600 New York, NY, US General Purposes 2019
Common Cause $2,000 Washington, DC, US General Puproses 2019
Wender Weis Foundation For Children $17,500 Palo Alto, CA, US General Purposes 2019

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Contact Information

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EIN 13-7298760
Website N/A
Address 291 CHURCH ST New York, NY 10013-2403

Key People (1)

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Trustee Nancy L Wender

Forms 990-PF

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Data Currency: Last updated March 2026 based on IRS Form 990-PF filings. Foundation information reflects most recent available tax year data.