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Barrie & Mark Handelman 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.

$6k
Granted FY2020
9
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of BARRIE & MARK HANDELMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2020 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100
Median grant
2
States reached
$659k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NENY$5,200
PLANNED PARENTHOOD MOHAWK HUDSON$500
CONGREGATION AGUDAT ACHIM$150
DAUGHTERS OF SARAH FOUNDATION$100
FRIENDS OF UNION COLLEGE ACADEMY OF$100
UCONN FOUNDATION$100
LAKE GEORGE ASSOCIATION$100
WILDWOOD FOUNDATION$50
MASORTI FOUNDATION$36
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $400) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 11%THE COMMUNITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $100 → 11%SCHENECTADY DAY NURSERY: $300 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$41k · 22 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2020, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
18

Total granted

$41k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+18%

Still filing today

50%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +2%
  • DO
    DAUGHTERS OF SARAH JEWISH FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $960 · revenue +75%
  • W
    WAMC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $625 · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • AA
    AGUDAT ACHIM CHARITY FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $500
  • UC
    UNION COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $400
  • HH
    HUDSON HEADWATERS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $300 · revenue -96%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
2
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
3
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
4
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

5
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
6
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

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

Health
8
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
9
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
10
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

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

Health
11
St Charles Hospital Corp

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
12
Stony Brook Orthopedic 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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wildwood Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 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

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF NENY — $15,300 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF NENYCONGREGATION AGUDAT ACHIM — $13,594 · OtherCONGREGATION AGUDAT ACHIMSCHENECTADY FOUNDATION — $1,700 · OtherMISCI — $1,500 · Other+27 more — $6,764 · Other+27 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentWAMC — $625 · Arts & CultureSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE — $300 · Arts & CultureThe Lake George Association Inc — $200 · Arts & CultureELLIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC THE FOUNDATION FOR ELLIS MEDICINE — $600 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $336 · HealthHUDSON HEADWATERS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $300 · PhilanthropyTHE WILDWOOD FOUNDATION — $100 · PhilanthropySCHENECTADY DAY NURSERY INC — $300 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC — $100 · Human ServicesREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $225 · Food & Nutrition
Other$38,858Youth Development$2,000Arts & Culture$1,125Health$936Philanthropy$400Human Services$400Food & Nutrition$225

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MOHAWK HUDSON INC — $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDAUGHTERS OF SARAH JEWISH FOUNDATION INC — $960 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWAMC — $625 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELLIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC THE FOUNDATION FOR ELLIS MEDICINE — $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $336 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON HEADWATERS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHENECTADY DAY NURSERY INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Public Radio — $230 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $225 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY MISSION OF SCHENECTADY — $225 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lake George Association Inc — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC — $175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INC — $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDWOOD FOUNDATION — $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation IncNY26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Schenectady Foundation · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Wright Family Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · Rose & Kiernan Charitable Foundation Inc · Mvp Health Plan 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 Barrie & Mark Handelman Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Barrie & Mark Handelman Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Barrie & Mark Handelman 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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