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Edward Sulzberger Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Edward Sulzberger 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.

$81k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$207kHealth$205kHuman Services$135kCivil Rights$50kReligion$39kEducation$38kHousing & Shelter$6kAnimals$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $58k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRIMARY STAGES COMPANY$45,000
CONGREGATION EMANU-EL NEW YORK$12,500
THE SHARON PLAYHOUSE$6,000
NY PUBLIC LIBRARY$5,000
THE WOMEN PROJECT$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$2,500
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WEST FULTON PUPPET FESTIVAL OF NY: $3k → 10%GMHC: $50k → 17%PAGE 73 PRODUCTION: $3k → 20%COMPASS INC FLORIDA: $3k → 11%Southern Poverty Law Center: $25k → 18%THE SHARON PLAYHOUSE: $8k → 9%BALL SOCKET ART: $5k → 12%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%VOICES OF NOTE INC: $5k → 13%Alliance of Women in Education: $5k → 11%GMHC: $50k → 17%THE SHARON PLAYHOUSE: $6k → 9%Alliance of Women in Education: $5k → 11%GMHC: $20k → 17%HOUSING WORKS: $5k → 17%BROWN UNIVERSITY - ANNUAL FUND: $5k → 14%ATLANTIC THEATRE COMPANY: $5k → 17%PRIMARY STAGES COMPANY: $50k → 17%PRIMARY STAGES COMPANY: $45k → 17%PRIMARY STAGES COMPANY: $25k → 17%The Theatre Development Fund: $10k → 17%THE WORKSHOP THEATER: $8k → 17%THE WORKSHOP THEATER: $5k → 17%NY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5k → 17%THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3k → 17%The Theatre Development Fund: $3k → 17%NY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3k → 17%VISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK: $10k → 17%VISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK: $3k → 17%SAGE INC: $110k → 17%SAGE INC: $20k → 17%SAGE INC: $5k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $10k → 17%American Ballet Theatre: $10k → 17%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL NEW YORK: $13k → 17%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL NEW YORK: $13k → 17%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL NEW YORK: $11k → 17%THE DALTON SCHOOL: $5k → 17%THE WOMEN PROJECT: $10k → 17%THE WOMEN PROJECT: $10k → 17%THE WOMEN PROJECT: $5k → 17%BROADWAY CARES FIGHT EQUITY AIDS: $25k → 17%BROADWAY CARES FIGHT EQUITY AIDS: $15k → 17%BROADWAY CARES FIGHT EQUITY AIDS: $13k → 17%BROADWAY CARES FIGHT EQUITY AIDS: $10k → 17%BROADWAY CARES FIGHT EQUITY AIDS: $6k → 17%Alliance for the Arts: $5k → 17%SECOND STAGE THEATER: $5k → 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$585k · 14 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
23

Total granted

$585k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+45%

Still filing today

57%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 & CultureHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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

  • SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $135k · revenue +61%
  • GM
    GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $120k · revenue +56%
  • PS
    Primary Stages Company Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $120k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +13%
  • BT
    BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -21%
  • MO
    METROPOLITAN OPERA
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
Manhattanville University

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

Education
5
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
6
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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7
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
8
Manhattan Theatre Club Inc

Mtc's work includes producing and developing new work on and off-broadway, nurturing artists throughout their careers, and positively impacting the lives of many through innovative education programs. we are committed to equity, diversity…

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Jewish Home Lifecare Manhattan

Jewish home lifecare (d/b/a the new jewish home, manhattan), is a not-for-profit organization committed to transforming eldercare for new yorkers so they can live meaningful lives in the place they call home.

Health
11
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
12
United Hospital Fund of New York

Working to build an effective and equitable health care system for every new yorker. (see sch. o)

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Theatre Development Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Diabetes Empowerment International Foundation. 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

24 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. 24 of the 39 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $135,000 · OtherSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSG…BROADWAY CARES FIGHT EQUITY AIDS: $68,750 · OtherBROADWAY CARES FIGHT EQUITY AIDSCONGREGATION EMANU-EL NEW YORK: $38,000 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANU-EL NEW YORKTHE WOMEN PROJECT: $25,000 · OtherTHE WOMEN PROJECTTHE SHARON PLAYHOUSE: $14,000 · OtherTHE WORKSHOP THEATER: $12,500 · Other+18 more: $58,000 · Other+18 morePrimary Stages Company Inc: $120,000 · Arts & CulturePrimary Stages Company I…THEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND…BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATIO…THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC: $120,000 · HealthGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRIS…VISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK: $12,500 · HealthVISITING NURSE SERVIC…+2 more: $2,000 · HealthSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $25,000 · Crime & LegalThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $10,000 · EducationDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $5,000 · EducationBROWN UNIVERSITY: $9,500 · Community ImprovementHOUSING WORKS INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $3,500 · Animals
Other$351,250Arts & Culture$150,000Health$134,500Crime & Legal$25,000Education$15,000Community Improvement$14,500Animals$3,500

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 budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $135,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC: $120,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPrimary Stages Company Inc: $120,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVoices Of Note Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOUSING WORKS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN THEATRE WING INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIABETES EMPOWERMENT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York City Rescue Mission: $500 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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation 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 Edward Sulzberger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward Sulzberger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report 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.

    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 39 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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