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Chervenak-Nunnalle Foundation Inc at a glance

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Chervenak-Nunnalle Foundation Inc

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$532k
Granted FY2018
34
Grants FY2018
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Arts & Culture$670kHealth$95kAnimals$80kEducation$60kReligion$40kRecreation & Sports$27kFood & Nutrition$20kEnvironment$15kOther$0
02FY2018 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k4 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $510k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FILM FORUM$25,000
BERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY$25,000
CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY$25,000
THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL$25,000
INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY$25,000
FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER INC$25,000
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC$25,000
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA$25,000
THE PUBLIC THEATER$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMM$25,000
BOWERY MISSION$20,000
MAYSLES INSTITUTE AND CINEMA$20,000
MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP$20,000
JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC$20,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY: $25k → 12%B612 FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%RMM HOUSE OF LONG ISLAND: $10k → 6%FILM FORUM: $50k → 17%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $25k → 20%SARASOTA ORCHESTRA: $10k → 9%POST POLIO FOUNDATION: $10k → 21%AMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY: $10k → 6%BERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY: $25k → 12%FILM FORUM: $25k → 17%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $25k → 20%POST POLIO FOUNDATION: $10k → 21%BERKSHIRE MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 12%CITY HARVEST: $10k → 17%MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP: $20k → 20%BERKSHIRE MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 12%CITY HARVEST: $10k → 17%MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP: $20k → 20%SHAKESSPEARE COMPANY: $25k → 12%THE LENOX LIBRARY: $10k → 12%BOSTON UNIVERSITY TANGLEWOOD INSTITUTE: $10k → 12%THE LENOX LIBRARY: $10k → 12%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $10k → 17%BOSTON UNIVERSITY TANGLEWOOD INSTITUTE: $10k → 12%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $10k → 17%JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $50k → 12%JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $20k → 12%MAYSLES INSTITUTE AND CINEMA: $20k → 17%MAYSLES INSTITUTE AND CINEMA: $10k → 17%CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY: $25k → 17%THE PUBLIC THEATER: $25k → 17%FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER INC: $25k → 17%CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY: $25k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $25k → 17%THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL: $25k → 17%FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER INC: $25k → 17%THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL: $25k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $25k → 17%THE PUBLIC THEATER: $25k → 17%BOWERY MISSION: $20k → 17%BOWERY MISSION: $20k → 17%ASPCA: $10k → 17%NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10k → 17%INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $25k → 17%CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMM: $25k → 17%INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $20k → 17%CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMM: $25k → 17%POETS HOUSE: $15k → 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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$955k · 28 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
3

Total granted

$955k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+142%

Still filing today

64%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Arts & CultureAnimalsRecreation & SportsReligionFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • JP
    JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $70k · revenue +95%
  • BH
    BERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +171%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • DD
    DORRANCE DANCE INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -5%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • BF
    B612 Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +142%
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
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
2
American Museum of the Moving Image

See schedule omuseum of the moving image (momi) is the only museum in the u.s. that explores the central technology of the present moment.screens are all around us. we use them to educate, entertain, and communicate. the moving…

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
5
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
6
New York City Ballet Inc

Perform, promote and sustain classical ballet.

Arts & Culture
7
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
8
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
9
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Arts & Culture
10
The Paley Center for Media

Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the most unlike its peers is American Littoral Society. 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

23 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. 23 of the 37 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
13/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMM: $50,000 · OtherCENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMCSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY: $50,000 · OtherCSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANYBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $50,000 · OtherBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INCTHE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $50,000 · OtherTHE METROPOLITAN OPERATHIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL: $50,000 · OtherTHIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOLMAYSLES INSTITUTE AND CINEMA: $30,000 · OtherMAYSLES INSTITUTE AND CINEMAIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherBOSTON UNIVERSITY TANGLEWOOD INSTITUTE: $20,000 · OtherTHE LENOX LIBRARY: $20,000 · OtherAMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATL HISTORY: $20,000 · OtherPOST POLIO FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherBERKSHIRE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $20,000 · Other+7 more: $80,000 · Other+7 moreFILM FORUM INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureFILM FORUM INCJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INCNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $50,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INCINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $45,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHYDISCALCED INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureDISCALCED INCDORRANCE DANCE INCORPORATED: $25,000 · Arts & CultureDORRANCE DANCE INCORPORATEDNew York Historical Society: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePOETS HOUSE INC: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $50,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $20,000 · AnimalsChristian Herald Association Inc: $40,000 · ReligionCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsTUCKAHOE YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $7,000 · Recreation & SportsCITY HARVEST INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $20,000 · Education
Other$485,000Arts & Culture$405,000Animals$70,000Religion$40,000Recreation & Sports$27,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Education$20,000

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 budgetFILM FORUM INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDISCALCED INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDORRANCE DANCE INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOETS HOUSE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS FILM FESTIVAL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetB612 Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTUCKAHOE YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetYork Theatre Company Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Berkshire Taconic Com…The Shubert Foundatio…The Hyde and Watson F…Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Chervenak-Nunnalle Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chervenak-Nunnalle Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Berkshire Medical Center Inc: 4% of income from government
  • American Littoral Society: 1% of income from government
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–75%
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 Chervenak-Nunnalle Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Chervenak-Nunnalle Foundation Inc 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 37 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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