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Altman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k36 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k143 grants · $11M
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EXPANDED SCHOOLS | $250,000 |
| THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST | $250,000 |
| FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC | $200,000 |
| GODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER | $200,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY | $175,000 |
| NEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $175,000 |
| NEW YORK FOUNDATION | $175,000 |
| FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC | $150,000 |
| THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST | $150,000 |
| EAGLE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC | $150,000 |
| NATIONAL EDUCATION EQUITY LAB INC | $150,000 |
| MASA-MEXED INC | $130,000 |
| IMENTOR | $125,000 |
| BOTTOM LINE INC | $125,000 |
| SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC | $125,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $6.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
263 repeat relationships — 176 still active in FY2024, 87 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $962k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- RFResearch Foundation of the City University of New York3× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +19%
- ESEXPANDED SCHOOLS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +7%
- NVNEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +0%
Funded once
- RHROBIN HOOD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -10%
- RFRESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CUNY (GRADUATE NYC)one grant, 2021 · $200k
- RFRESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (CUNY OFFICE OF K-16one grant, 2023 · $200k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…
An engaged network of tech leaders working to foster a dynamic, diverse, and creative new york. we bring together new yorkers to support a successful technology ecosystem, attract and retain top-tier talent, and celebrate new york and the…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
Nyaa provides services to landlords including computerized rent registration of rent stabilized apartments with the new york state division of housing and community renewal in compliance with nys & nyc laws & regulations.
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Expanded Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Noel Pointer Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
334 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 334 of the 427 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Eagle Academy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds IMENTOR INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Community Health Care Association of New York State Inc ↗
- Who funds READ ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PARENTCHILD INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds JOBSFIRSTNYC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WORKFORCE PROFESSIONALS TRAINING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR NEIGHBORHOOD & HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE IN SUNSET PARK INC ↗
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds HARLEM RBI INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN HEALTH PLAN INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN KINDERGARTEN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS ↗
- Who funds MOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds Visual Arts Research and Resource Center Relating ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The New York Community Trust · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · United Way of New York City · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Altman Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- All Our Kin Inc — 1% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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