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A & J Saks Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$224k
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$1.1MArts & Culture$716kEnvironment$343kCivil Rights$303kFood & Nutrition$210kEducation$185kInternational$185kAnimals$166kOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k43 grants · $134k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $90k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$28k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACLU FOUNDATION INC$10,000
PRO PUBLICA$10,000
NPR FOUNDATION$10,000
THE GREEN-WOOD HISTORICAL FUND$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$10,000
YALE SCHOOL OF ART$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION$10,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CITYMEALS ON WHEELS$5,000
FEEDING AMERICA$5,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$5,000
THIRTEEN WNET$5,000
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$5,000
LEGAL AID SOCIETY$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NARAL - PRO CHOICE AMERICA: $5k → 14%NARAL- PRO CHOICE AMERICA: $5k → 14%NARAL - PRO CHOICE AMERICA: $5k → 14%NARAL - PRO CHOICE AMERICA: $5k → 14%NARAL - PRO CHOICE AMERICA: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CT
CA
NE
VA
DC
HI
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 56 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against -45% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
8

Total granted

$3.5M
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
-45%

Still filing today

77%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +76%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +102%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $185k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY HURRICANE HARVEY RELIEF
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • RS
    RAICES SOUTHERN BORDER CRISIS
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
4
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
7
New York League of Conservation Voters

See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…

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8
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
9
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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10
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
11
New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

See schedule onylcvef's mission is to educate, engage and empower new yorkers to be effective advocates on behalf of the environment from clean energy and funding for parks, to solid waste and green buildings. first, we educate new yorkers…

Environment
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
34/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,090,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC+1 more: $11,000 · Recreation & SportsYALE SCHOOL OF ART: $255,000 · OtherYALE SCHOOL OF ARTIndividual grant recipient: $90,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHIRTEEN WNET: $67,500 · OtherSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $55,000 · OtherWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $50,000 · OtherWildlife Conservation Society: $45,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $90,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA …THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $45,000 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $45,000 · Other+31 more: $577,500 · Other+31 morePRO PUBLICA INC: $100,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLI…CLIMATE MUSEUM: $45,000 · Arts & CultureCLIMATE M…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $45,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLI…Museum of Modern Art: $43,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of…NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL …THE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GREEN…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $195,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $57,500 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $22,500 · Civil RightsENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $47,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $42,500 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $26,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE SHAWANGUNKS INC: $22,000 · EnvironmentOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $20,500 · EnvironmentMOHONK PRESERVE INC: $17,500 · Environment+1 more: $4,000 · EnvironmentMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $185,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $32,500 · InternationalFeeding America: $45,000 · Food & NutritionRONDOUT VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $40,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $40,000 · Food & Nutrition
Recreation & Sports$1,101,000Other$1,320,000Arts & Culture$313,000Civil Rights$275,000Environment$220,500International$217,500Food & Nutrition$165,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,090,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $195,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $185,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $100,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $57,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $47,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE MUSEUM: $45,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $43,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $42,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $42,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $42,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $42,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $40,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRONDOUT VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INC: $40,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY: $37,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $32,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetULSTER COUNTY SPCA: $29,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetWMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC: $27,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $26,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SHAWANGUNKS INC: $22,000 over 9y, 8.5% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $20,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSTONE RIDGE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetMOHONK PRESERVE INC: $17,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $14,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST CATHERINES PARK INC: $11,000 over 6y, 25% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLATBUSH CATS INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH MEADOW SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRONDOUT-ESOPUS LAND CONSERVANC: $4,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetNORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
  • Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds RONDOUT VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ULSTER COUNTY SPCA ↗
  • Who funds WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Syd & Jan M Silverman…Community Foundations…The Jm Kaplan Fund IncVerizon FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
Syd & Jan M Silverman Foundation IncNJ13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Syd & Jan M Silverman Foundation Inc · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization A & J Saks Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A & J Saks Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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