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Barsky Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2k
Granted FY2023
37
Grants FY2023
35
Organizations funded FY2023
3%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$40
Largest grant, FY2023
$250
Organizations funded a year
35 to 42
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
11
Total assets, FY2023
$1k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 3% of the organizations Barsky Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202335$2k3%
FY202239$2k3%
FY202142$3k7%
FY202042$2k2%
FY201941$2k5%
FY201839$2k10%
FY201738$2kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$3kHealth$3kReligion$2kInternational$2kEnvironment$1kAnimals$790Civil Rights$770Recreation & Sports$700Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
WI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($4k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Barsky Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDuke University: $750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFresh Air Fund: $700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $565 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $525 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $485 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $455 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTechnoserve Inc: $365 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Farming Association: $340 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $330 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $330 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Old Croton Aqueduct: $315 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $285 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $265 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: $252 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAccion International: $245 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $225 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetK9s for Warriors Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc: $200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMidwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeague of Women Voters Education Fund: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHastings Volunteer Fire Company: $190 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fortune Society Inc: $175 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRails to Trails Conservancy: $175 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHastings Historical Society: $175 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEarthjustice: $165 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmnesty International of the USA Inc: $150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBideawee Inc: $150 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDrug Policy Alliance: $150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Dyslexia Association Inc: $145 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $140 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRainforest Alliance Inc: $125 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMetavivor Research and Support Inc: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $105 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Conservancy: $105 over 7y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 36.

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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Barsky Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Barsky 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.

About Barsky Family Foundation

How much does Barsky Family Foundation give?
Barsky Family Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $1,841 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Barsky Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (17%), Health (17%), Religion (15%).
Who are Barsky Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Mishkan Ha Am ($2k), Duke University ($750), Fresh Air Fund ($700).
Does Barsky Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Barsky Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Barsky Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Barsky Family Foundation based?
Barsky Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 52 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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