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Frank Crystal 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.

$5k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Employment$75kHealth$47kPhilanthropy$41kYouth Development$11kFood & Nutrition$10kEducation$9kRecreation & Sports$6kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
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States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANIEL W OFFIT FUND TO FIGHT GLIOBLASTOMA INC$5,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $109k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ALLIANT INSURANCE FOUNDATION: $75k → 11%Pajama Program: $4k → 17%Chilton Medical Center Foundation: $2k → 4%Mount Sinai Health System: $28k → 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 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.

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Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
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The Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount sinai is committed to the advancement of the art and science of medicine through clinical excellence. the central mission consists of high-quality patient care and teaching conducted in an atmosphere of social concern and scholarly…

Health
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Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
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Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
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Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Houston Food Bank. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%10%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%47%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%9%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 47% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
1/21
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,544

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

20 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. 20 of the 25 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALLIANT INSURANCE FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Human ServicesALLIANT INSURANCE FOUNDATIONMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $28,000 · Human ServicesMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INCBEYOND BEDTIME INC — $4,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesJewish Women's Foundation of NY — $25,000 · OtherJewish Women's Foundation of NYNEWARK MENTORING MOVEMENT — $10,000 · OtherNEWARK MENTORING MOVEMENTThe Houston Food Bank — $10,000 · OtherThe Houston Food BankTHE FAMILY FIRM INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 · OtherTHE FAMILY FIRM INSTITUTE INCGOFFSTOWN JUNIOR GRIZZLIES — $5,000 · OtherGOFFSTOWN JUNIOR GRIZZLIESIndividual grant recipient — $2,171 · Other+4 more — $2,800 · OtherUNITED HOSPITAL FUND OF NEW YORK — $5,000 · HealthDANIEL W OFFIT FUND TO FIGHT GLIOBLASTOMA INC — $5,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $656 · Health+2 more — $664 · HealthINSURANCE INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $15,500 · PhilanthropyST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $7,500 · EducationALGEMEINER INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureNEW CANAAN MOUNTED TROOP INC — $500 · Recreation & SportsGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $250 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$109,000Other$59,971Health$16,320Philanthropy$15,500Education$7,500Arts & Culture$1,000Recreation & Sports$500Food & Nutrition$250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALLIANT INSURANCE FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $28,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSURANCE INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $15,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEWARK MENTORING MOVEMENT — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDANIEL W OFFIT FUND TO FIGHT GLIOBLASTOMA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FAMILY FIRM INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND BEDTIME INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChilton Medical Center Foundation Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALGEMEINER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt John's School — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $656 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW CANAAN MOUNTED TROOP INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $164 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN12.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Frank Crystal 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • New Canaan Mounted Troop Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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