· Private foundation
Bernard R & Carol Kossar Foundationinc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $25,000 |
| HAMPTON SYNAGOGUE | $10,500 |
| BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL | $10,335 |
| THE BIRCH WATHEN SCHOOL LENOX ANNUAL FUND | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE | $7,313 |
| UPPER EAST SIDE HATZOLAH INC | $5,000 |
| CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| APRE'S WINE PARTY INC | $2,500 |
| CHRIST CHURCH DAY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PRIMARY STAGES | $500 |
| ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $185 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY5× · 2019–2023 · $206k · revenue +29%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY5× · 2019–2024 · $35k · revenue +44%
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $20k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- NLNYC LANGONE MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2020 · $5k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +20%
- MFMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +19%
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.
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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.
Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…
South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Staten island university hospital is an affiliate within northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…
Northwell health is the parent company of a fully integrated health system that is committed to promote clinical care, health education, conduct biomedical research, and caring for the community regardless of ability to pay.
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 53 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Upper East Side Hatzolah Inc ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds PLAY FOR PINK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOROT INC ↗
- Who funds Primary Stages Company Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds West Side Montessori ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds TRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bernard R & Carol Kossar Foundationinc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernard R & Carol Kossar Foundationinc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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