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Cordover Family Foundation

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.

$374k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.8MHealth$838kArts & Culture$461kInternational$175kScience & Tech$100kCivil Rights$12kHuman Services$6kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM$150,000
MIT MUSEUM$100,000
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON$30,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$25,000
LESLEY UNIVERSITY$25,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$15,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$15,000
PHILLIPS ACADEMY$10,000
BELEV ECHAD$2,500
MSHEF$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$275
METROPOLIAN MUSEUM OF ART$210
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BELEV ECHAD: $4k → 17%Bergen Family Center: $250 → 7%BELEV ECHAD: $3k → 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

MN
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
TN
DC
LA
GA
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 21 repeat orgs$176k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
27

Total granted

$2.2M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+39%

Still filing today

62%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • EU
    Emory University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue +80%
  • TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $290k · revenue +23%
  • NG
    National Gallery of Art
    3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +86%
  • THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +21%
  • TP
    THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +145%
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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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2
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
3
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
4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
6
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
7
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
11
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
12
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dwight-Englewood School; the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. 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

29 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. 29 of the 53 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
22/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $937,500 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyEmory University: $320,000 · EducationEmory UniversityTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $290,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMYDWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL: $56,330 · Education+4 more: $56,600 · EducationMT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $575,000 · OtherMT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEMMuseum of Fine Arts Boston: $380,000 · OtherMuseum of Fine Arts BostonLESLEY UNIVERSITY: $165,000 · OtherLESLEY UNIVERSITYTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $150,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUN…MIT MUSEUM: $100,000 · OtherMIT MUSEUM+24 more: $35,671 · OtherTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $245,000 · Health+4 more: $5,100 · HealthNational Gallery of Art: $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $3,457 · Arts & CultureBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $2,500 · International+1 more: $500 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $10,000 · Civil RightsBELEV ECHAD INC: $6,100 · Human ServicesBERGEN FAMILY CENTER: $250 · Human Services
Education$1,660,430Other$1,405,671Health$250,100Arts & Culture$78,457International$23,000Civil Rights$10,000Human Services$6,350

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $937,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $320,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $290,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $245,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetLESLEY UNIVERSITY: $165,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL: $56,330 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetELISABETH MORROW SCHOOL INC: $30,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELEV ECHAD INC: $6,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWICH TOWN PARTY INC: $3,134 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $2,178 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S RIGHTS INFORMATION CENTER: $1,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,279 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEWARK ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC: $892 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEACHING MATTERS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERGEN FAMILY CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $100 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.

  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LESLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
  • Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
  • Who funds DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ELISABETH MORROW SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds BELEV ECHAD INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH TOWN PARTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S RIGHTS INFORMATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundCommunity Foundation …The Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY17.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Cordover Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cordover Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Bergen Family Center: 25% of income from government
  • Women's Rights Information Center: 16% of income from government
  • Lesley University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Cordover Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cordover Family Foundation 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 53 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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