· Private foundation
Charitarian
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $382k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $537k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $135,000 |
| UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $125,613 |
| CHAMAH INTERNATIONAL | $106,626 |
| 92ND STREET Y | $70,000 |
| BRIGHTER BITES | $50,000 |
| FRICK COLLECTION | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE | $48,150 |
| UNITED LUBAVITCHER YESHIVA | $47,000 |
| AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSUEM | $35,000 |
| PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY | $35,000 |
| CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $30,000 |
| NY BIRTH CONTROL ACCESS PROJECT | $25,000 |
| COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC | $25,000 |
| CHESS IN THE SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $302k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +31% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $368k 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
- CICHESS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS INC4× · 2019–2024 · $377k · revenue +15%
- LTLife Town Inc3× · 2019–2022 · $252k · revenue +30%
- AFAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM6× · 2019–2024 · $201k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL OFone grant, 2023 · $200k
- PAPEN AMERICAN CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -38%
- NHNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +3%
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…
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art
White columns identifies significant emerging and under-represented visual artists and encourages their creative and professional development through the presentation of group and solo exhibitions, an online curated artists registry, and…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Retro Report 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 39 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
102 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. 102 of the 163 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 Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds CHESS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds Life Town Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds Brighter Bites Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Space for Giants USA Inc ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWBELONG INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Goodnation Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds EARTH DAY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PRINTED MATTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH DEMOCRATIC COUNCIL OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PANORAMA GLOBAL ↗
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: Frances & Benjamin Benenson Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Ag Foundation · Arison Arts Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Goergen Foundation Inc · Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc
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 Charitarian 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.
- Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Bruce Museum Inc — 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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