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Beatrice Snyder 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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.6MArts & Culture$3.0MHealth$2.4MPhilanthropy$2.2MInternational$563kCivil Rights$461kEnvironment$326kCrime & Legal$281kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $318k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+1 grant · $275k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NYU MEDICAL CENTER$275,000
THE CLINTON FOUNDATION$243,600
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$175,000
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE NY-$125,000
CLIMATE REALITY PROJECT$110,000
YOUNG PEOPLES CHORUS$100,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
US EDUCATION FUND$73,750
THE KINGS TRUST US$50,000
VASSAR COLLEGE$40,000
BROADWAY CARES$40,000
CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY$25,000
GIFFORDS LAW CENTER$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%DREAM FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%FILING IN THE BLANKS: $3k → 9%DREAM FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%GOODPLUS FOUNDATION: $10k → 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

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 63 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
108

Total granted

$11M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+30%

Still filing today

60%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalCivil RightsHuman 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

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +47%
  • BH
    BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +26%
  • TY
    THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $581k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • PC
    PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAUgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +44%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • CT
    CGPS THIRD CENTURY FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
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
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
3
The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education
4
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
5
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
8
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Inc

The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…

Education
9
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
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
12
Manhattanville University

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fwdus Education Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jpmorgan Chase 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

109 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. 109 of the 186 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
107/109
Grantees still filing
78/109
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NYU MEDICAL CENTER: $1,555,000 · OtherNYU MEDICAL CENTERROUNDABOUT THEATRE NY: $1,344,164 · OtherROUNDABOUT THEATRE NYBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $426,200 · OtherBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INCTHE POLAR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $363,800 · Other+117 more: $3,518,321 · Other+117 moreGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $2,205,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYNew York University: $205,000 · EducationNew York UniversityCOLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $200,000 · EducationCOLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PR…+16 more: $254,600 · Education+16 moreBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $1,168,600 · HealthBILL HILLA…+10 more: $135,960 · Health+10 moreTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $581,000 · Arts & CultureTHE YOUNG…NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $150,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK …THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SECON…ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $65,000 · Arts & CultureST ANN'S …ONLY MAKE BELIEVE INC: $65,000 · Arts & CultureONLY MAKE…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $140,579 · Arts & Culture+9 moreOPEN HANDS FOUNDATION: $346,700 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $108,500 · InternationalSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $100,000 · InternationalWomen Win Foundation Inc: $35,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $23,375 · International+5 more: $21,500 · InternationalTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $290,000 · EnvironmentGREEN WORKER INC: $11,000 · Environment+2 more: $11,000 · EnvironmentHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $95,000 · Civil RightsTHIRD WAY INSTITUTE: $35,000 · Civil RightsVET VOICE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $7,500 · Civil Rights
Other$7,207,485Education$2,864,600Health$1,304,560Arts & Culture$1,151,579International$635,075Environment$312,000Civil Rights$187,500

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 budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $2,205,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $1,168,600 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $581,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $426,200 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetOPEN HANDS FOUNDATION: $346,700 over 3y, 65% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $290,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNew York University: $205,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC: $110,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $108,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetICIVICS INC: $95,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBallet Next Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $67,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetONLY MAKE BELIEVE INC: $65,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMELTING POT FOUNDATION USA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetZSL AMERICA INC: $44,500 over 1y, 52% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen Win Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHIRD WAY INSTITUTE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVET VOICE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEARTHECHO INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE PRINCE OF WALES FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFWDUS EDUCATION FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPHILLIP AND PATRICIA FROST MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA GRAND OPERA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS INC: $24,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $23,375 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds THE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU ↗
  • Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds ICIVICS INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
  • Who funds Ballet Next Inc ↗
  • Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds ONLY MAKE BELIEVE 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.

Jewish Communal FundNY23.7× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · New Venture Fund · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · American Express Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Ford Foundation · California Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett 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 Beatrice Snyder Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Beatrice Snyder Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Icivics Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
22report 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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How do I get to Beatrice Snyder Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Beatrice Snyder 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 186 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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