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Charitarian

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$930k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$135k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.3MReligion$965kInternational$827kHealth$487kFood & Nutrition$403kYouth Development$388kHuman Services$340kCivil Rights$269kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $382k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $537k
$30,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$135,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$125,613
CHAMAH INTERNATIONAL$106,626
92ND STREET Y$70,000
FRICK COLLECTION$50,000
BRIGHTER BITES$50,000
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE$48,150
UNITED LUBAVITCHER YESHIVA$47,000
PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY$35,000
AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSUEM$35,000
CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING$30,000
HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION$25,000
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
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CITY OF ASYLUM: $5k → 11%RESOURCES FOR INFANT EDUCARERS: $1k → 14%LITTLE STARS FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%LIFETOWN: $85k → 16%LIFETOWN: $85k → 16%LIFETOWN: $83k → 16%SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $16k → 17%SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $11k → 17%SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $2k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $2k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $2k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $613 → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2k → 17%DOROT INC: $2k → 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

ME
WA
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
VA
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
TX
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 60 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
94

Total granted

$5.5M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+14%

Still filing today

60%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $368k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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

  • CI
    CHESS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $377k · revenue +15%
  • LT
    Life Town Inc
    3× · 2019–2022 · $252k · revenue +30%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM
    6× · 2019–2024 · $201k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
  • PA
    PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -38%
  • JI
    JEWBELONG INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +3%
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.

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The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
2
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
3
The Architectural League of New York

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…

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4
Museum of the City of New York

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…

Arts & Culture
5
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

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,…

Education
6
New York Studio School

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)

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7
Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fundinc

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

Arts & Culture
8
White Columns Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
10
Municipal Art Society of New York

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Berggruen Institute
Education
12
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

102 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/102
Grantees still filing
66/102
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHAMAH: $546,270 · OtherCHAMAHIndividual grant recipient: $450,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHABAD OF CHAPEL HILLDURHAM: $289,000 · OtherCHABAD OF CHAPEL HILLDURHAMThe Frick Collection: $261,630 · OtherThe Frick CollectionUNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF: $200,000 · OtherNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE: $198,150 · Other+101 more: $2,697,675 · Other+101 moreMuseum of Modern Art: $705,609 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern ArtAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $201,300 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEU…PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $150,000 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN CENTER INCFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $64,000 · Arts & CulturePRINTED MATTER INC: $54,000 · Arts & Culture+25 more: $425,344 · Arts & Culture+25 moreCHESS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS INC: $376,912 · Recreation & SportsMOSHOLU MONTEFIORE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $17,500 · Recreation & Sports+3 more: $17,156 · Recreation & SportsCITY HARVEST INC: $200,000 · Food & NutritionBrighter Bites Inc: $166,613 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $2,226 · Food & NutritionLife Town Inc: $251,839 · Human ServicesSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $31,227 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $25,000 · Human Services+6 more: $18,779 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $150,000 · InternationalPANORAMA GLOBAL: $50,000 · InternationalCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $25,000 · International+1 more: $2,000 · InternationalJEWBELONG INC: $100,000 · ReligionTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $70,000 · ReligionPROJECT INSPIRE INC: $30,000 · ReligionAISH GLOBAL INC: $25,000 · Religion
Other$4,642,725Arts & Culture$1,600,253Recreation & Sports$411,568Food & Nutrition$368,839Human Services$326,845International$227,000Religion$225,000

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 budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $705,609 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHESS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS INC: $376,912 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $261,630 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLife Town Inc: $251,839 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $201,300 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBrighter Bites Inc: $166,613 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $125,613 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpace for Giants USA Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY: $105,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJEWBELONG INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGoodnation Foundation Inc: $73,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $70,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $64,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $60,613 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEARTH DAY NETWORK INC: $55,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPRINTED MATTER INC: $54,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $53,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $53,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPANORAMA GLOBAL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Values Coalition: $50,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetJEWISH DEMOCRATIC COUNCIL OF AMERICA: $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNEW YORK CITY ARTS-IN-EDUCATION ROUNDTABLE INC: $36,839 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $31,227 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $31,128 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORKING ARTISTS AND THE GREATER ECONOMY: $30,613 over 1y, 28% of budgetPROJECT INSPIRE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $27,226 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTFI DIGITAL ARCHIVE: $25,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetTHROUGH THE FLOWER CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetART21 INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAISH GLOBAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Leadership Addiction Awareness Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetRound Hill Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetPIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION: $23,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC: $23,400 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $20,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $19,613 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.

Frances & Benjamin Be…Jewish Communal FundAg FoundationArison Arts FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Goergen Foundatio…Milton and Sally Aver…The Hyde and Watson F…Hillman Family Founda…Shelley & Donald Rubi…Helen Frankenthaler F…The Andy Warhol Found…
Frances & Benjamin Benenson Foundation IncNY26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Soundwaters Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to Charitarian?

Find your warmest path to Charitarian through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 163 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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