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First Hungarian Literary Society Inc at a glance

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First Hungarian Literary Society Inc

TO FOSTER CULTURE, TO CULTIVATE LITERATURE, THE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF HUNGARY THROUGH MEETINGS, CONFERENCES AND SIMILAR ACTIVITIES.

$600k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $450k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE LEO BAECK INSTITUTE$100,000
AMERICAN BALLET THEATER$100,000
THE YIVO INSTITUTE$100,000
THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION$50,000
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION$50,000
THE MUSEUM JEWISH HERTIAGE$50,000
THE NEW STAGE THEATER COMPANY INC$40,000
SYMPHONY POPS OF LONG ISLAND$40,000
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC INC$40,000
HUNGARIAN PARENT TEACHER ASSOC OF N$15,000
STEPS THEATRE AND PRODUCTION CO$15,000
02The need
02

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 (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC INC: $40k → 12%SYMPHONY POPS OF LONG ISLAND: $40k → 6%THE MUSEUM JEWISH HERTIAGE: $50k → 17%STEPS THEATRE AND PRODUCTION CO: $15k → 14%THE LEO BAECK INSTITUTE: $100k → 17%THE YIVO INSTITUTE: $100k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION: $50k → 17%AMERICAN BALLET THEATER: $100k → 17%HUNGARIAN PARENT TEACHER ASSOC OF N: $15k → 17%THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $50k → 17%THE NEW STAGE THEATER COMPANY INC: $40k → 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 field
03the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 11 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
1/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE YIVO INSTITUTE: $100,000 · OtherTHE YIVO INSTITUTELEO BAECK INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 · OtherLEO BAECK INSTITUTE INCTHE MUSEUM JEWISH HERTIAGE: $50,000 · OtherTHE MUSEUM JEWISH HERTIAGESYMPHONY POPS OF LONG ISLAND: $40,000 · OtherSYMPHONY POPS OF LONG ISLANDSTEPS THEATRE AND PRODUCTION CO: $15,000 · OtherBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INCMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Association IncTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATIONCLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSICTHE NEW STAGE THEATRE COMPANY INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW STAGE THEATRE COMPANY INCHungarian Parent Teacher Association of NY Inc: $15,000 · Education
Other$305,000Arts & Culture$280,000Education$15,000

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 budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC: $40,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetTHE NEW STAGE THEATRE COMPANY INC: $40,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetHungarian Parent Teacher Association of NY Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 16% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization First Hungarian Literary Society Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First Hungarian Literary Society Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to First Hungarian Literary Society Inc?

    Find your warmest path to First Hungarian Literary Society 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 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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