· Private foundation
Appleman Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k70 grants · $218k
- $10k–50k56 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k8 grants · $818k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS | $218,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS | $200,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER NY | $100,000 |
| PUBLIC ARTS FUND | $75,000 |
| COLBY COLLEGE | $65,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NY | $60,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $50,000 |
| THE 92ND STREET Y | $50,000 |
| HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES | $40,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $40,000 |
| CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN | $35,000 |
| THE BOGLIASCO FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| ARTISTS AND MOTHERS | $30,000 |
| BROOKDALE DEPARTMENT OF GERIATRICS MT SINAI | $25,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $440k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +23% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
116 repeat relationships — 84 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 46 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $426k 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
- PAPUBLIC ART FUND INC5× · 2020–2024 · $760k · revenue +50%
- GSGRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INC4× · 2021–2024 · $295k · revenue +76%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART5× · 2020–2024 · $265k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- AWANONYMOUS WAS A WOMANone grant, 2020 · $1.0M
- GAGREY ART MUSEM NYUone grant, 2023 · $166k
- MSMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +20%
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 museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
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."
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
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…
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…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
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.
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
Apex Art Curatorial Program is a resolutely noncommercial visual art exhibition space which provides curators and artists with a venue dedicated to ideas that are often too provocative or too small in scope for display elsewhere. Apex Art…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beth's Furry Friends Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
136 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. 136 of the 225 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 ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ART FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BOGLIASCO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF YADDO ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds FREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Arison Arts Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation · Ag Foundation · Open Society Institute · The Pollock-Krasner 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 Appleman Foundation Inc 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- The Salisbury Association Inc — 54% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% 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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