· Private foundation
David & Sadie Traum Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| QUATTRONE CENTER | $5,000 |
| WILD BIRD FUND INC | $3,000 |
| FEDERAL DEFENDERS OF NY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| HARLEM GROWN | $2,500 |
| HAWLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| MASTER VOICES | $1,000 |
| ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| TENEMENT MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| CHAGRIN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL | $1,000 |
| MISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| PAGE 73 PRODUCTIONS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC4× · 2018–2022 · $60k · revenue -80%
- BABRIDGET ALLIANCE2× · 2023–2024 · $20k
- MCMISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES2× · 2023–2025 · $19k
Funded once
- CRCOMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -46%
- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +17%
- WSWINWARD SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $8k
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.
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.
Open new york is a grassroots non-profit working to solve new york's housing crisis. we advocate for policy changes across the state that will allow for more housing options in every neighborhood. open new york believes in homes for all…
Queens library transforms lives by cultivating personal and intellectual growth and by building strong communities.
Oad strives to ensure that poor people convicted of felonies receive full and equal access to justice by providing exceptional appellate representation, improving the quality of indigent defense representation through education & training,…
To provide a variety of services to criminal justice organizations and defendants to enable the pre-trial process to operate with greater efficiency and fairness and gathers specified research data on the process.
Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…
Nyaa provides services to landlords including computerized rent registration of rent stabilized apartments with the new york state division of housing and community renewal in compliance with nys & nyc laws & regulations.
The conservancy preserves and revitalizes new york's architecture. by doing so, it contributes to new york's economy, tourism and quality of life.
Legal services nyc is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in new york city. a community-based organization serving more than 100,000 people annually, lsnyc is the nation's largest…
New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM GROWN INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR KIDS GEAUGA ↗
- Who funds WILD BIRD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MASTERVOICES INC ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David & Sadie Traum Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David & Sadie Traum Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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