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Bikoff Foundation at a glance

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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.

$3.4M
Granted FY2021
17
Grants FY2021
10
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

22
’20
13
’21
10
’22
6
’23
2
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$8.4MEducation$3.8MHealth$1.5MEnvironment$1.4MArts & Culture$1.3MCivil Rights$1.3MFood & Nutrition$255kReligion$200kOther$0
02FY2021 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $580k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.7M
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 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
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
MO
KY
VA
AR
NC
DC
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.6M · 13 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
14

Total granted

$8.6M
$555k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
-5%

Still filing today

69%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthFood & NutritionInternationalEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • TC
    THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +9%
  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +69%
  • OC
    OCEAN CONSERVANCY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • CE
    CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
  • OI
    OCEANA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -5%
  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HOSPITALSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +43%
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
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
2
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
3
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
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
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
6
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

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,…

Health
7
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

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.

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8
Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association

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,…

Community Improvement
9
Island Harvest Ltd

The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.

Human Services
10
International Food Information Council

To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.

Arts & Culture
11
Food Forward Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
12
United States Naval Institute

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust; 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.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
18/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $8,355,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $600,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATIONTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $2,024,400 · EducationTHE SPENCE SCHOOLTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $1,800,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOLICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $150,000 · EducationMILKEN CENTER ADVANCING AMERICAN DREAM: $1,000,000 · OtherMILKEN CENTE…CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $200,000 · OtherCONGREGATION…WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $125,000 · OtherWEILL MEDICA…NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: $100,000 · OtherTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherMRCHARITY INC: $180,000 · OtherMRCHARITY IN…+18 more: $245,000 · Other+18 moreOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $1,100,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA INC: $150,000 · EnvironmentTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $110,000 · EnvironmentWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1,125,000 · Arts & CultureMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $25,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $250,500 · HealthTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $50,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $250,000 · Civil Rights
Philanthropy$8,955,000Education$3,974,400Other$1,940,000Environment$1,360,000Arts & Culture$1,250,000Health$405,500Civil Rights$250,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $8,355,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $2,024,400 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $1,800,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1,125,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $1,100,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $600,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $250,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMRCHARITY INC: $180,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANA INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNURSES HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD360: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitta Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'S HEARTLAND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 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.

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.

Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Network for GoodDC10.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 40 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home