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Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel
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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k160 grants · $749k
- $10k–50k108 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k10 grants · $715k
- $250k+1 grant · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $750,000 |
| UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $115,000 |
| REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL | $100,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $75,000 |
| THE MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM | $75,000 |
| PHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $60,000 |
| SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC | $59,750 |
| THE JEWISH MUSEUM | $55,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| RANDALL'S ISLAND PARK ALLIANCE | $39,700 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL | $34,000 |
| LEO BAECK INSTITUTE | $33,000 |
| GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM | $30,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $357k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% 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 +29% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
289 repeat relationships — 243 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 30 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $316k 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
- TPThe Pierpont Morgan Library6× · 2020–2025 · $695k · revenue +79%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC4× · 2022–2025 · $415k · revenue +19%
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $330k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- UOUJA-Federation of New York (was Fed of Jewish Philanth.)one grant, 2020 · $100k
- UOUJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK (WAS FED OF JEWISH PHILANTH)one grant, 2021 · $100k
- TRTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -14%
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.
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).
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
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.
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan and the most unlike its peers is The Neue Galerie New York. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
298 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. 298 of the 493 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RANDALL'S ISLAND PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ART FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
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: Charina Endowment Fund Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Pinkerton Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Altman Foundation · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · The Ford 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 Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel 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.
- A Safe Place Inc — 45% of income from government
- Museum of African American History Inc — 43% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- New England Life Flight Inc — 5% of income from government
- Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Nantucket Community Music Center — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- Artists Association of Nantucket Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% 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.
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