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Baumol 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.

$306k
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$296kArts & Culture$223kInternational$133kEnvironment$104kEducation$62kCivil Rights$56kFood & Nutrition$51kPublic Benefit$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k41 grants · $139k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $167k
$4,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PUBLIC THEATRE$35,767
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN$35,522
CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION$20,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$15,000
NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$12,000
MT SINAI DEPT OF REHABILITATION MEDICINE$12,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND$12,000
ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION$10,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$8,000
WOMEN ON WHEELS$7,500
OAAW$7,500
Individual grant recipient$6,000
LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS$6,000
FOOD BANK OF THE HUDSON VALLEY$5,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $5k → 20%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%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

MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$911k · 58 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

58 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
22

Total granted

$911k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+21%

Still filing today

55%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CR
    CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +67%
  • BB
    BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $100k · revenue +62%
  • WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +206%

Funded once

  • AP
    AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +48%
  • R7
    READ 718 INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +34%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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.

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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
5
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
6
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
7
Museum of the City of New York

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…

Arts & Culture
8
The Architectural League of New York

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…

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9
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
10
The Asia Society

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.

International
11
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
12
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc; the most unlike its peers is John Simon Guggenheim Memorial 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

50 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. 50 of the 92 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
26/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PUBLIC THEATRE: $133,827 · OtherPUBLIC THEATRENYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: $92,000 · OtherNYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTERMT SINAI DEPT OF REHABILITATION MEDICINE: $38,000 · OtherMT SINAI DEPT OF REHABILITATION MEDICINEPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $29,000 · OtherTHE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 · OtherNYC CHILDREN'S THEATER: $19,680 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $21,000 · Other+53 more: $201,375 · Other+53 moreNEW ISRAEL FUND: $72,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUN…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $29,830 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS …ASHOKA: $12,000 · InternationalASHOKAHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $7,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS W…International Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 · International+3 more: $5,100 · InternationalCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $110,000 · HealthCHRISTOPHER …The Fistula Foundation: $6,500 · HealthThe Fistula …+1 more: $500 · HealthBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $99,766 · EnvironmentBROOKLYN BO…NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $4,500 · EnvironmentWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $39,000 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INC: $4,500 · EducationREAD 718 INC: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $400 · EducationTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $8,050 · Arts & CultureST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $7,048 · Arts & CultureCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $4,500 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $4,340 · Arts & CultureTOMPKINS CORNERS CULTURAL CENTER: $3,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $2,820 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $2,630 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: $2,500 · Arts & CultureBREWSTER THEATER COMPANY INC: $1,940 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW GROUP INC: $1,440 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $874 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $26,500 · Civil Rights
Other$556,882International$130,930Health$117,000Environment$104,266Education$45,900Arts & Culture$42,142Civil Rights$26,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $99,766 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $72,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $39,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $29,830 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $26,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $17,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $13,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetASHOKA: $12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HELICON FOUNDATION INC: $8,575 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $8,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND: $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $7,048 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC: $5,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $4,340 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTOMPKINS CORNERS CULTURAL CENTER: $3,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $2,630 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREAD 718 INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JERUSALEM FELLOWSHIPS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBREWSTER THEATER COMPANY INC: $1,940 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE NEW GROUP INC: $1,440 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLearning Leaders Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN SIMON GUGGENHEIM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $268 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICIANS FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $106 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $100 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.

  • Who funds CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
  • Who funds Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds ASHOKA ↗
  • Who funds QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HELICON FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗

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.

The Andrew W Mellon FoundationNY13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Baumol Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Baumol Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Baumol 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 92 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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