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David B Kriser 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.

$320k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$144k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$2.0MEducation$444kArts & Culture$380kReligion$93kHuman Services$29kCivil Rights$17kPhilanthropy$15kInternational$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $204k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JEWISH BOARD$144,200
Individual grant recipient$60,000
WFUV$25,000
INTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL P$10,000
BRONX LETTERS FOUNDATIONS$10,000
LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING A$7,500
PLAN A HEALTH INC$7,000
SUN VALLEY CULINARY INSTITUTE INC$6,600
PROJECT VILLAGE GUATEMALA FOUNDATIO$5,000
RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC$5,000
CONGREGATION EMANU-EL$4,000
JEWISH CENTER OF THE HAMPTONS$3,750
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$3,099
THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM$3,000
WLIW$3,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $497k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC: $3k → 8%SHIELD OF DAVID INC: $15k → 13%TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC: $3k → 8%SHIELD OF DAVID INC: $5k → 13%AT HOME ON THE SOUND: $2k → 9%THE BLUE CARD: $250 → 17%THE BLUE CARD: $250 → 17%THE JEWISH BOARD: $145k → 17%THE JEWISH BOARD: $144k → 17%THE RETREAT: $500 → 7%THE JEWISH BOARD: $119k → 17%THE JEWISH BOARD: $23k → 17%THE JEWISH BOARD: $21k → 17%THE JEWISH BOARD: $9k → 17%THE JEWISH BOARD: $4k → 17%THE JEWISH BOARD: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.5M · 69 repeat orgs$131k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

69 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
51

Total granted

$3.5M
$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+15%

Still filing today

70%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • JB
    JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $468k · revenue +5%
  • FU
    Fordham University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $331k · revenue +47%
  • TT
    THANKS TO SCANDINAVIA INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • JB
    JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN
    one grant, 2017 · $23k
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -19%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
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
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
4
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
5
Manhattanville University

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

Education
6
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
7
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
8
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

9
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
10
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
11
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
12
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)

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Project Village Guatemala Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHospital Systems and Networ…Youth Education & EnrichmentIndustry Trade AssociationsHistoric Preservation Organ…Government Accountability &…Senior Services and Communi…Arts Education & PerformanceIsrael-Focused Jewish Organ…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr14%4%5–10yr21%8%10–20yr20%32%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr14%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%4%<5yr14%1%5–10yr21%1%10–20yr20%14%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr14%70%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/99
the rest of the field
11%
4,295/38,992

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

93 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 93 of the 134 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/93
Grantees still filing
61/93
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ICHAN SCHOLL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT S — $1,000,000 · OtherICHAN SCHOLL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SIndividual grant recipient — $555,608 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMT SINAI HOSPITAL — $332,600 · OtherMT SINAI HOSPITAL+64 more — $377,066 · Other+64 moreJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $467,790 · Human ServicesJEWISH BOARD OF…SHIELD OF DAVID INC — $20,000 · Human Services+4 more — $8,745 · Human ServicesFordham University — $330,730 · EducationFordham Univ…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $15,000 · Education+11 more — $37,983 · Education+11 moreINTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC — $56,755 · Arts & CultureINTERNATI…JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $53,850 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT L…THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $45,506 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILH…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $32,430 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLI…THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER — $17,155 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIA…+30 more — $81,573 · Arts & Culture+30 moreACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY — $106,550 · HealthPLAN A HEALTH INC — $7,000 · HealthPROJECT VILLAGE GUATEMALA FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Health+7 more — $7,650 · HealthTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $18,500 · ReligionUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $12,800 · PhilanthropyThe ACT Foundation Inc — $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,265,274Human Services$496,535Education$383,713Arts & Culture$287,269Health$126,200Religion$18,500Philanthropy$14,800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $467,790 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFordham University — $330,730 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY — $106,550 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHANKS TO SCANDINAVIA INC — $70,000 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC — $56,755 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $53,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $45,506 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $32,430 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHIELD OF DAVID INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $18,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER — $17,155 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $12,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY CULINARY INSTITUTE INC — $11,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $11,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $9,275 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC — $8,151 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN — $7,637 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEvelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center Inc — $7,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC — $5,915 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $5,892 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY — $5,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $5,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT VILLAGE GUATEMALA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN THEATRE WING INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $4,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC — $3,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWNET — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPHILL SCHOOL INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFASHION SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON LIBRARY — $2,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAG HARBOR PARTNERSHIP INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOPLAND HOUSE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DRAWING CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Luke's Wood River Medical Center Ltd — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $2,355 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC — $2,140 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC — $2,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMQ FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
  • Who funds Fordham University
  • Who funds ACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY
  • Who funds THANKS TO SCANDINAVIA INC
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC
  • Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC
  • Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds SHIELD OF DAVID INC
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds SUN VALLEY CULINARY INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN
  • Who funds Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center Inc
  • Who funds PLAN A HEALTH INC
  • Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC
  • Who funds CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST
  • Who funds PROJECT VILLAGE GUATEMALA FOUNDATION

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundNY29.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Federated Foundations Inc · The Robert and Joyce Menschel Family Fdn · The Donald and Barbara Zucker Family Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Kate Cassidy Foundation · The Reba Judith Sandler Foundation Inc · J & Ar Foundation · The Fine and Greenwald Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Maryam and Hervey Seley Foundation · The Jct Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization David B Kriser Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc3% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to David B Kriser Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to David B Kriser 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 134 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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