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Bikoff Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
92% of Bikoff Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Bikoff Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $580k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OCEAN CONSERVANCY | $1,000,000 |
| THE SPENCE SCHOOL | $625,000 |
| MILKEN CENTER ADVANCING AMERICAN DREAM | $550,000 |
| COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $500,000 |
| MRCHARITY INC | $180,000 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $175,000 |
| NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC | $75,000 |
| THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $50,000 |
| WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $10,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TCTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL4× · 2020–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +9%
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART4× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +69%
- OCOCEAN CONSERVANCY2× · 2020–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +45%
Funded once
- CECONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORKone grant, 2020 · $200k
- OIOCEANA INCone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -5%
- NLNYU LANGONE HOSPITALSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +43%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
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;…
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
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.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
See schedule osifma is the leading trade association for broker-dealers, investment banks and asset managers operating in the u.s. and global capital markets. on behalf of our industry's one million employees, we advocate on legislation,…
The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.
To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust and the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 40 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
- Who funds MRCHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds NURSES HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD360 ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF EAST HAMPTON INC ↗
- Who funds Citta Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'S HEARTLAND INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Bikoff 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
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.