· Private foundation
Ember Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE | $5,600 |
| CONGREGATION BEIT SIMCHAT TORAH | $4,655 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $2,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $1,200 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $650 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $500 |
| ALSAC ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH | $500 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $500 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $500 |
| NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK | $500 |
| ASPCA | $500 |
| SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FDN | $500 |
| CALLEN-LORDE COMM HEALTH CTR | $500 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $600) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MTMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC5× · 2017–2022 · $10k · revenue +35%
- NYNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL4× · 2017–2021 · $9k · revenue +33%
- TSTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $6k · revenue +159%
Funded once
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +22%- MSMOUNT SINAIone grant, 2021 · $3k
- TDTHE DRAMA LEAGUE OF NEW YORK INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +6%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
Theatre can lead to extraordinary moments of shared imagination. it enables us to stand in anothers shoes to better understand ourselves and the world around us. it shows us who we are, who we have been, who we could be. the nt delivers on…
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."
Apex Art Curatorial Program is a resolutely noncommercial visual art exhibition space which provides curators and artists with a venue dedicated to ideas that are often too provocative or too small in scope for display elsewhere. Apex Art…
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
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…
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
The studio museum in harlem is a contemporary art museum that focuses on the work of artists of african descent - as well as work that has been inspired and influenced by african culture - past and present; through its exhibitions,…
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
The mission of the national museum of women in the arts is to collect, conserve and elevate the achievements of women artists from all nationalities and to educate the public on their outstanding accomplishments. we strive to accomplish…
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playwrights Horizons Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Neue Galerie New York. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
57 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 79 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds THE DRAMA LEAGUE OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE NEW GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds New Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ember Foundation 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
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.