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Charles H Revson Foundation Inc at a glance

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Charles H Revson Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
94
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$9.3MArts & Culture$5.8MHealth$5.2MReligion$3.0MPhilanthropy$2.9MInternational$2.0MHousing & Shelter$1.9MPublic Benefit$1.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 94 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $568k
  • $50k–250k55 grants · $6.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$80,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$205M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Friends of Hebrew University$250,000
YMCA of Greater New York$200,000
City Report$200,000
The Arab Center for Alternative Planning$195,500
Edmond de Rothschild Partnership$170,058
Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism CUNY Foundation Inc$150,000
Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism CUNY Foundation Inc$150,000
Hillel at Baruch Inc$150,000
William J Brennan Jr Center for Justice$150,000
FJC - A Foundation of Donor Advised Funds$150,000
Immigrant Advocates Response Collaborative Inc$150,000
Fund for the City of New York Inc$150,000
Hunter Hillel Foundation$140,000
New York University Grossman School of Medicine$125,040
Trustess of Columbia University in the City of New York$124,666
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 (FY20–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Tides Center: $75k → 10%Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom: $75k → 8%Tides Center: $75k → 10%Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom: $75k → 8%Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom: $50k → 8%Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom: $25k → 8%Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts: $15k → 16%Groundswell Community Mural Project: $30k → 20%United Neighborhood Houses of New York: $75k → 17%United Neighborhood Houses of New York: $45k → 17%The Children's Aid Society: $50k → 17%Community Impact: $8k → 17%Community Impact Inc: $8k → 17%Community Impact: $8k → 17%Community Impact: $8k → 17%Community Impact Inc: $8k → 17%Bowery Residents' Committee Inc: $8k → 17%YMCA of Greater New York: $200k → 17%Bowery Residents Committee Inc: $8k → 17%YMCA of Greater New York: $200k → 17%Bowery Residents' Committee Inc: $8k → 17%YMCA of Greater New York: $200k → 17%Bowery Residents Committee Inc: $8k → 17%YMCA of Greater New York: $25k → 17%Bowery Residents Committee Inc: $8k → 17%YMCA of Greater New York: $20k → 17%Documented Ltd: $200k → 17%Hebrew Free Loan Society Inc: $50k → 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

VT
NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
DC
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$27M · 75 repeat orgs$5.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

75 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
63

Total granted

$27M
$4.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+26%

Still filing today

77%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CN
    CRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM CUNY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +92%
  • BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +6%
  • TR
    THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $942k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FUNDS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $625k
  • TL
    THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +20%
  • CS
    COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $384k · revenue +26%
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
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

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…

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2
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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5
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
6
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Inc

The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…

Education
7
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
8
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
9
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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10
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
11
University of New Haven

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…

Education
12
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for Public Housing Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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

122 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. 122 of the 167 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
122/122
Grantees still filing
91/122
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: $1,137,466 · OtherMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterWeill Medical College of Cornell University: $872,795 · OtherWeill Medical College of Cornell UniversityHILLEL AT BARUCH INC: $750,000 · OtherNew York University Grossman School of Medicine: $713,905 · OtherNYU Grossman School of Medicine: $669,959 · OtherHUNTER HILLEL FOUNDATION: $660,000 · OtherTrustess of Columbia University in the City of New York: $626,294 · OtherCOMMUNITY FUNDS INC: $625,000 · OtherEdmond de Rothschild Partnerships: $590,000 · OtherThe Arab Center for Alternative Planning: $518,000 · Other+75 more: $7,948,922 · Other+75 moreCRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM CUNY FOUNDATION INC: $1,412,402 · EducationCRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHO…BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,275,933 · EducationBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARYTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $941,576 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITYBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $702,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITYWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $700,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FO…New York University: $684,453 · EducationNew York UniversityCornell University: $650,000 · EducationCornell UniversityTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $593,751 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UN…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $508,876 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT…+17 more: $1,333,350 · Education+17 moreCity Report Inc: $2,330,000 · Arts & CultureCity Report…PRO PUBLICA INC: $575,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA…BROOKLYN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM CORPORATION: $328,680 · Arts & CultureBROOKLYN CH…+18 more: $572,000 · Arts & Culture+18 morePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $955,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL…FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $910,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR T…THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $800,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW YO…THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF: $500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LENFES…+4 more: $159,150 · PhilanthropyTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $775,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $750,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $562,500 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $281,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND: $270,000 · International+4 more: $65,000 · InternationalYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK: $645,000 · Human ServicesFOOTSTEPS INC: $400,000 · Human ServicesDocumented LTD: $300,000 · Human ServicesSISTERHOOD OF SALAAM SHALOM: $225,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $150,000 · Human ServicesTHE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $120,000 · Human Services+6 more: $220,000 · Human ServicesSUPPORTIVE HOUSING NETWORK OF NEW YORK INC: $425,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $225,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE JOINT OWNERSHIP ENTITY NEW YORK CITY CORP: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterCITY FUTURES INC: $93,500 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $35,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$15,112,341Education$8,802,341Arts & Culture$3,805,680Philanthropy$3,324,150International$2,703,500Human Services$2,060,000Housing & Shelter$878,500

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 budgetCity Report Inc: $2,330,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetCRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM CUNY FOUNDATION INC: $1,412,402 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,275,933 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $955,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $941,576 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $910,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $800,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $775,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $750,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHILLEL AT BARUCH INC: $750,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $702,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $700,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNew York University: $684,453 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTER HILLEL FOUNDATION: $660,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetCornell University: $650,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK: $645,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $593,751 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $575,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $562,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $508,876 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF: $500,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetDO SOMETHING INC: $450,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $450,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSUPPORTIVE HOUSING NETWORK OF NEW YORK INC: $425,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC: $400,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $384,453 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROOKLYN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM CORPORATION: $328,680 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetFJC: $310,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDocumented LTD: $300,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $281,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORKERS FOR PARKS: $275,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $270,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FORUM FOR URBAN DESIGN: $231,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetSISTERHOOD OF SALAAM SHALOM: $225,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetCIVIC NEWS COMPANY: $225,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $225,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCITY LIMITS NEWS INC: $196,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetCITIZENS HOUSING & PLANNING COUNCIL OF N: $185,835 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetUniversity Neighborhood Housing Program Inc: $157,500 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetImmigrant Advocate Response Collaborative Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC: $130,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $130,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE QUEENS LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $120,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $115,350 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.

The New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundRobin Hood FoundationThe Ford FoundationPinkerton FoundationAltman FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Hyde and Watson F…Marty and Dorothy Sil…Lily Auchincloss Foun…The Rockefeller Found…Brooklyn Community Fo…
The New York Community TrustNY43.7× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Robin Hood Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Altman Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Marty and Dorothy Silverman Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Rockefeller Foundation · Brooklyn Community 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 Charles H Revson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles H Revson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Beechwood Arts Inc: 21% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 167 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home