· Private foundation
Esther Koven 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL NAVY SEAL MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| OPFOB | $5,000 |
| WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| HACKLEY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH | $5,000 |
| BLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $2,000 |
| HAMILTON-MADISON HOUSE | $1,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,000 |
| JCC ON THE HUDSON | $1,000 |
| DAV CHARITABLE SERVICE TRUST | $1,000 |
| BLUFFTON SELF HELP | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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 +40% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 3 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH8× · 2018–2025 · $83k · revenue +35%- HSHACKLEY SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +43%
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF ST DOMINIC'S INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -46%
- TATRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +8%
- TPTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
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.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.
As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.
The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…
To empower new yorkers, providing integrated mental health and social services with compassion and expertise.
Brief description of the organization's mission the purpose of the fund is to provide assistance to the families of new york city police officers and firefighters who have been killed in the line of duty. after the events of september 11,…
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.…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York City Rescue Mission. 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.
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 51 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 — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
67 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. 67 of the 89 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 JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds HACKLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF GREEN CHIMNEYS ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds TRANSPLANT SUPPORT ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds LIVEONNY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON-MADISON HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds UDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds STANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds STATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC ↗
- Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Express Foundation · East Coast Energy Foundation Inc · Clune Cares Foundation Inc · Tiger Baron Foundation Inc · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Pinkerton 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 Esther Koven 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.