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Barbara and Michael Satow Family Foundation at a glance

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Barbara and Michael Satow Family Foundation

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.

$236k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Health$222kEducation$195kReligion$43kPublic Benefit$31kHousing & Shelter$18kHuman Services$13kInternational$5kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $132k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$71,544
JED FOUNDATION$60,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING$25,000
LIFTING UP WESTCHESTER$10,000
TEMPLE BETH EL HILLSBOROUGH$10,000
COLUMBIA COLLEGE$10,000
TEMPLE BETH EL OF NORTHERN$9,803
NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL$5,000
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$5,000
UNDERSTOOD$5,000
MY SISTERS PLACE$5,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE$5,000
MERCY CENTER$2,500
LAGOND MUSIC SCHOOL$2,500
MATTHEW LARSON FOUNDATION$2,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MAKE A WISH AMERICA: $25k → 11%MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $3k → 16%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%MUSICARES: $5k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF: $3k → 14%BARD COLLEGE: $1k → 9%LAGOND MUSIC SCHOOL: $8k → 9%OUTWARD BOUND: $1k → 13%UNDERSTOOD: $5k → 17%MERCY CENTER: $3k → 28%PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE: $5k → 14%AHC FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%CONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $1k → 9%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $3k → 9%TEMPLE BETH EL HILLSBOROUGH: $10k → 5%MATTHEW LARSON FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%JGIVE FRIENDS OF ASOR: $1k → 9%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%BARD COLLEGE: $1k → 9%LAGOND MUSIC SCHOOL: $5k → 9%UNDERSTOOD: $5k → 17%CONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $1k → 9%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%BARD COLLEGE: $1k → 9%LAGOND MUSIC SCHOOL: $3k → 9%NYUFACES: $3k → 17%MY SISTERS PLACE: $5k → 9%JED FOUNDATION: $60k → 17%JED FOUNDATION: $30k → 17%MY SISTERS PLACE: $3k → 9%JED FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $17k → 17%MY SISTERS PLACE: $3k → 9%COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $10k → 17%TEMPLE BETH EL OF NORTHERN: $12k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $72k → 17%TEMPLE BETH EL OF NORTHERN: $10k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $49k → 17%TEMPLE BETH EL OF NORTHERN: $7k → 9%CHAPPAQUA SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%HORACE GREELEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1k → 9%MAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL: $5k → 9%LIFTING UP WESTCHESTER: $10k → 9%NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL: $3k → 9%LIFTING UP WESTCHESTER: $5k → 9%NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL: $3k → 9%LIFTING UP WESTCHESTER: $3k → 9%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

VT
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$360k · 16 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
16

Total granted

$360k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+8%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalEnvironmentHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • LU
    LIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $18k · revenue +59%
  • LU
    LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +18%
  • LM
    LAGOND MUSIC SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -47%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • MF
    MUSICARES FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +89%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
7
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
8
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is My Sisters Place Inc; the most unlike its peers is Horace Greeley Scholarship Fund. 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

23 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. 23 of the 43 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $75,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERINGTEMPLE BETH EL OF NORTHERN: $28,873 · OtherTEMPLE BETH EL OF NORTHERNCOLUMBIA COLLEGE: $27,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA COLLEGEMAKE A WISH AMERICA: $25,500 · OtherMAKE A WISH AMERICAUNDERSTOOD: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $10,000 · OtherTEMPLE BETH EL HILLSBOROUGH: $10,000 · OtherMy Sisters Place Inc: $10,000 · Other+18 more: $18,852 · Other+18 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $120,044 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSIT…LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYLAGOND MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $15,000 · EducationLAGOND MUSIC SCHOOL INCUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANC…+3 more: $7,000 · EducationTHE JED FOUNDATION: $115,000 · HealthTHE JED FOUNDATIONNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · HealthNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPI…+3 more: $3,461 · HealthLIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INC: $18,000 · Housing & ShelterMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC: $5,000 · EmploymentSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,500 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $2,500 · International
Other$215,225Education$167,044Health$128,461Housing & Shelter$18,000Arts & Culture$5,000Employment$5,000International$5,000

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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $120,044 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAGOND MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMy Sisters Place Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Center Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORACE GREELEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIABARNARD HILLEL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPPAQUA SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHAPPAQUA VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORP INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOCAL MOTION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $211 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Pohly Family Foun…The Pfizer Foundation…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY14.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Pohly Family Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Barbara and Michael Satow Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barbara and Michael Satow Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Local Motion Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

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Find your warmest path to Barbara and Michael Satow 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 43 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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