The 37th Street Foundation concentrates its funding on higher-education endowments and mission-driven colleges while also supporting humanitarian emergency relief and youth peacebuilding. It makes a small number of sizable gifts (notably to college endowments and experiential-justice programming) alongside several uniform mid-sized charitable contributions to international relief and food-security organizations.
37th Street Foundation Inc. stands out for two large higher-education commitments: a $150,000 grant to Colorado College for the Dr. Frank E. Kirby II, Class of 1950, Concert Endowment and a $75,000 grant to Antioch College for the Dr. Emily Baruch Kirby Endowed Fund for Experiential Justice Studies. Those gifts show a pattern of permanent support for college-based programs rather than short-term project funding. Across its recent grants, the foundation also backs humanitarian response, food relief, and youth peacebuilding, with recurring charitable contributions to organizations such as World Central Kitchen, Doctors Without Borders USA, UNICEF USA, and Seeds of Peace. The mix includes both unusually large endowment gifts and a broader set of standardized charitable contributions, suggesting a portfolio that combines long-term institutional support with responsive giving. Higher education is especially prominent in the grant list, but the foundation does not limit itself to campuses; it also funds emergency medical aid, disaster response, and community-focused service organizations. Its recent record points to a clear interest in programs with durable public or educational value, especially where named endowments, peacebuilding, or relief work can create lasting support.
In higher education, 37th Street Foundation Inc. gave $75,000 to Antioch College for the Dr. Emily Baruch Kirby Endowed Fund for Experiential Justice Studies, linking its giving to curricular work in justice and civic learning. It also made a $150,000 endowment gift to Colorado College for the Dr. Frank E. Kirby II, Class of 1950, Concert Endowment, which ties the foundation to long-term support for campus arts programming. Beyond colleges, the foundation awarded $30,000 to World Central Kitchen for charitable contribution, reflecting disaster and food-relief support. It also gave $30,000 to Seeds of Peace for charitable contribution, showing an interest in youth peacebuilding and cross-cultural leadership. The broader set of grants includes support for humanitarian medical relief through Doctors Without Borders USA and UNICEF USA, reinforcing a focus on aid-oriented organizations.
The foundation’s recent grant sizes cluster around a small set of levels: p25 is $15,000, median is $15,000, and p75 is $30,000. That pattern reflects a mix of repeated mid-sized gifts and a few larger institutional grants. The grant list spans 2023 through 2025, with no recipient appearing more than once in the recent-grants sample. That suggests a mostly one-off pattern in the data provided rather than repeated awards to the same organizations. The foundation is not an individual-giving vehicle and does not make program-related investments. Its filings show annual grants of $525,000 and total assets of $1,090,349.
$525K
$1.1M
$718K
$232K
Most grants fall between $15K and $30K, with a median of $15K.
25th Percentile
$15K
Median
$15K
75th Percentile
$30K
About 20% of grants go to recipients in HI.
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Concentrated giving: a few large, targeted endowment-style gifts to colleges combined with several similarly sized (~$30k) charitable contributions to established international relief and youth organizations; mix of one-off endowments and responsive disaster/relief grants rather than many small general operating grants.
Notable grantees: Colorado College, Antioch College, Doctors Without Borders USA, World Central Kitchen, Seeds of Peace
The foundation gives nationally, and every recent grant in the sample went to a U.S. recipient. Florida accounts for 20% of grants, with recipients including Odessa, Palm Harbor, Sanford, and Tampa-area giving patterns in the dataset. Outside Florida, the most frequent state in the grant list is Hawaii, including Wailuku and Maui-linked relief funding. Other recipient locations include Washington, DC; New York, NY; Colorado Springs, CO; Yellow Springs, OH; and Newark, NJ, showing a broad domestic spread rather than a single-region focus.
Its recent grants emphasize higher-education endowments and mission-driven college programs, along with humanitarian relief, disaster and food aid, and youth peacebuilding. The list includes major gifts to college endowments and smaller charitable contributions to relief and civic organizations.
Recent grant sizes are concentrated at $15,000 and $30,000. The distribution shows p25 at $15,000, median at $15,000, and p75 at $30,000, with larger outliers for endowment support.
Yes. Only 20% of its grants go to recipients in Florida, and the recent-grants sample includes organizations in Colorado, Ohio, Washington, DC, New York, Hawaii, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Illinois.
The foundation supports endowed higher-education funds, experiential justice studies, campus arts programming, humanitarian medical relief, disaster and food relief, and youth peacebuilding. Recent grants show each of those themes through named college endowments and charitable contributions to aid organizations.
In the recent-grants sample, each recipient appears only once across 2023 to 2025. That points to mostly one-time awards in the data provided, even though the foundation uses repeated grant sizes such as $15,000 and $30,000.
2025
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COLORADO COLLEGE | COLORADO SPRINGS, CO | $150,000 | 2025 | DR. FRANK E. KIRBY II, CLASS OF 1950, CONCERT ENDOWMENT |
| ANTIOCH COLLEGE | YELLOW SPRINGS, OH | $75,000 | 2025 | DR. EMILY BARUCH KIRBY ENDOWED FUND FOR EXPERIENTIAL JUSTICE STUDIES |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | WASHINGTON, DC | $30,000 | 2024 | CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | HAGERSTOWN, MD | $30,000 | 2024 | CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION |
| MAUI FOOD BANK | WAILUKU, HI | $30,000 | 2024 | CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION |
| SEEDS OF PEACE | NEWARK, NJ | $30,000 | 2024 | CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION |
| UNICEF USA | NEW YORK, NY | $30,000 | 2024 | CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION |
| ARTOLUTION | BROOKLYN, NY | $15,000 | 2024 | CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION |
| NORTH AMERICAN TRADITIONAL INDIGENOUS FOOD SYSTEMS | MINNEAPOLIS, MN | $15,000 | 2024 | CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | WASHINGTON, DC | $15,000 | 2024 | CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION |
| FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY DRIVEN INNOVATION | ODESSA, FL | $15,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION |
| US PEACE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | PALM HARBOR, FL | $15,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION |
| HEALTHY SCHOOLS CAMPAIGN | CHICAGO, IL | $15,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION |
| CENTRAL FL ZOO & BOTANICAL GARDENS | SANFORD, FL | $15,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION |
| THE BARNSTORMERS THEATRE | TAMWORTH, NH | $15,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION |
| LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE ASSOCIATION | MEREDITH, NH | $15,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION |
| KIDS IN NEED OF DEFENSE | WASHINGTON, DC | $15,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION |
COLORADO COLLEGE
$150,000DR. FRANK E. KIRBY II, CLASS OF 1950, CONCERT ENDOWMENT
ANTIOCH COLLEGE
$75,000DR. EMILY BARUCH KIRBY ENDOWED FUND FOR EXPERIENTIAL JUSTICE STUDIES
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN
$30,000CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA
$30,000CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION
MAUI FOOD BANK
$30,000CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION
SEEDS OF PEACE
$30,000CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION
UNICEF USA
$30,000CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION
ARTOLUTION
$15,000CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION
NORTH AMERICAN TRADITIONAL INDIGENOUS FOOD SYSTEMS
$15,000CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION
PLANNED PARENTHOOD
$15,000CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION
FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY DRIVEN INNOVATION
$15,000CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION
US PEACE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
$15,000CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION
HEALTHY SCHOOLS CAMPAIGN
$15,000CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION
CENTRAL FL ZOO & BOTANICAL GARDENS
$15,000CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION
THE BARNSTORMERS THEATRE
$15,000CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION
LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE ASSOCIATION
$15,000CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION
KIDS IN NEED OF DEFENSE
$15,000CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION