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Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation at a glance

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Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation

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.

$112k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$250kArts & Culture$232kHealth$122kEducation$43kFood & Nutrition$36kHuman Services$20kPhilanthropy$20kEnvironment$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$877k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MACULA FOUNATION INC$20,000
PANZI FOUNDATION$20,000
BARGEMUSIC$20,000
THE TIBET FUND$10,000
RESTORATION LAOS$6,000
BROOKLYN STEPPERS INC$5,000
INSTITUTE OF WORLD AFFAIRS$5,000
S'COOL SOUNDS$5,000
JUNGLEVINE FOUNDATION INC$5,000
SAIL TO PREVAIL$5,000
HOLY APOSTLES SOUP KITCHEN$5,000
STANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$2,500
BHUTAN FOUNDATION$2,500
COUNCIL ON FOUNDATIONS$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JUNGLEVINE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 10%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

ME
NY
IA
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
DC
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$677k · 22 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
12

Total granted

$677k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+18%

Still filing today

64%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
InternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BL
    BARGEMUSIC LTD
    9× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +24%
  • PF
    PANZI FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $80k · revenue +36%
  • SS
    SCOOL SOUNDS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $40k · revenue +376%

Funded once

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +51%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH AFRICA
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • NC
    NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +8%
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
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
2
Us - China Policy Foundation
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3
Ie New York College

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Education
4
Arthur Miller Foundation

To honor the legacy of the great american playwright, arthur miller, and his new york city public school education, the arthur miller foundation (the "foundation") increases equitable access to quality theater education for public school…

Philanthropy
5
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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6
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
7
Columbia University Press

Enhance Columbia University's education mission by acquiring and publishing outstanding original works by scholars and others that contribute to an understanding of global human concerns. Columbia University Press became part of the…

Arts & Culture
8
Berggruen Institute
Education
9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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11
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
12
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tibet Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Tom Gold Dance Foundation 51 West 81ST Street. 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

27 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. 27 of the 36 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
24/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MACULA FOUNATION INC: $90,000 · OtherMACULA FOUNATION INCCHURCH OF THE HOLY APOSTLES: $35,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE HOLY APOSTLESINSTITUTE OF WORLD AFFAIRS: $35,000 · OtherINSTITUTE OF WORLD AFFAIRSAmrita Performing Arts: $25,000 · OtherAmrita Performing ArtsINSTITUTE OF WORLD AFFAIRS: $20,000 · OtherINSTITUTE OF WORLD AFFAIRSCENTER FOR IN'L HEALTH & COOPERATION: $16,500 · OtherCENTER FOR IN'L HEALTH & COOPERATIONThe Bhutan Foundation: $14,000 · OtherRESTORATION LAOS: $11,000 · OtherSTANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $10,000 · OtherLATSE INC: $10,000 · Other+5 more: $16,500 · Other+5 moreBARGEMUSIC LTD: $142,500 · Arts & CultureBARGEMUSIC LTDSCOOL SOUNDS INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureSCOOL SOUNDS INCTHE BROOKLYN STEPPERS INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN STEPPERS INC+2 more: $7,000 · Arts & CulturePANZI FOUNDATION: $80,000 · InternationalPANZI FOUNDATIONInternational Institute of Rural Reconstruction: $30,000 · InternationalInternational Institute of…Yale-China Association Inc: $30,000 · InternationalYale-China Association IncAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $13,000 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE…Tibet Fund Inc: $10,000 · InternationalTibet Fund Inc+3 more: $12,500 · International+3 moreBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC: $27,500 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationCANDID: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCouncil on Foundations Inc: $7,000 · PhilanthropySAIL TO PREVAIL: $10,000 · HealthVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK: $5,000 · HealthJUNGLE VINE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCITY HARVEST INC: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$283,000Arts & Culture$204,500International$175,500Education$37,500Philanthropy$17,000Health$15,000Human Services$5,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBARGEMUSIC LTD: $142,500 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetPANZI FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSCOOL SOUNDS INC: $40,000 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetInternational Institute of Rural Reconstruction: $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetYale-China Association Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC: $27,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAmrita Performing Arts: $25,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN STEPPERS INC: $15,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetThe Bhutan Foundation: $14,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAIL TO PREVAIL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSTANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLATSE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCANDID: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCouncil on Foundations Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NEW YORK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Bridge to Asia Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE TOM GOLD DANCE FOUNDATION 51 WEST 81ST STREET: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOLD MERCHANTS HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Ford FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ford FoundationNY17.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 36 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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