About Nash Family Foundation
The Nash Family Foundation concentrates its philanthropic support exclusively on a single biomedical institution, providing large, unrestricted gifts to aid the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Their giving appears focused on supporting medical research, education, and institutional capacity at a major New York academic medical center.
Focus Areas
Biomedical research and medical school support at Icahn School of Medicine (New York)Institutional/operational support for a major academic medical centerMedical education and training in a metropolitan research hospital
Who They Fund
not specified
Giving Approach
Highly concentrated: very few but very large grants directed repeatedly to a single grantee (repeat institutional support rather than diversified funding).
Funding Style
unrestricted/general operating supportorganizational capacity supportoperational/administrative expense funding
About Nash Family Foundation
The Nash Family Foundation’s recent giving centers on large unrestricted support for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, with $1.5 million awarded in both 2023 and 2024 to aid the institution’s exempt functions. That pattern sits alongside other substantial gifts to New York-based Jewish and educational institutions, including Northwell Health Foundation, The Shefa School, Uja Federation of New York, and Birthright Israel Foundation. The foundation’s grants are used as general support rather than for narrowly defined projects, which is consistent with the exemption language attached to many of the recent awards. Across the recent record, the foundation also backed biomedical and institutional work at a major health system, while supporting schools, federations, museums, and poverty-alleviation organizations in New York. Several grantees recur across years, suggesting an ongoing relationship approach rather than one-off sponsorships. The distribution of award sizes includes both seven-figure grants and smaller six-figure gifts, with the foundation using a mix of major institutional support and repeated annual allocations. The result is a grantmaking profile that combines medical, educational, and Jewish communal institutions within a local New York footprint.
What Nash Family Foundation Funds
Biomedical and medical education support is a major thread in the foundation’s giving. In 2024, it gave $1.5 million to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and $250,000 more to the same institution, both to aid exempt functions. It also awarded $800,000 in 2023 and $500,000 in 2024 to Northwell Health Foundation for the same broad purpose. Its education-related grantmaking includes $500,000 in 2024 to The Shefa School and $100,000 in 2024 to National Ramah Commission Inc. The foundation also supports Jewish communal and cultural institutions, including $300,000 in 2024 to Friends of Bezalel Academy of Arts & Des and $250,000 in 2024 to American Friends of the Israel Museum. In the social services area, it gave $180,000 in 2024 to Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty and $180,000 to Fund for the Aged Inc.
How Nash Family Foundation Gives
Typical awards fall in a mid-five-figure to low-six-figure band: p25 is $10,000, the median is $18,000, and p75 is $25,000. The recent grant list also shows repeated large institutional grants well above that range, including multiple awards to the same recipients across 2023 and 2024. The pattern points to ongoing support rather than isolated giving. The foundation does not fund individuals and does not make program-related investments. Its active programs include both unsolicited scholarship support and targeted grantmaking products: the Lakeland College Scholarship is awarded annually, while Long Grant and Short Grant are tied to requests over and under $5,000. Long Grant is not open to unsolicited requests, and Short Grant is also not open to unsolicited requests.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$10.9M
Total Assets
$10.2M
Total Revenue
$17.4M
Total Expenses
$12.1M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $25K, with a median of $18K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$18K
75th Percentile
$25K
Geographic Reach
Local17 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Where Nash Family Foundation Funds
Top 2 recipient countries by grant volume for Nash Family Foundation.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United StatesDomestic | 847 | $39.8M | 99.8% |
| 2 | Israel | 2 |
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