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Fuhrman Family 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $330k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+8 grants · $4.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $1,000,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000,000 |
| FLAG FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION | $780,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION | $500,000 |
| THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $465,000 |
| THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM | $346,627 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| THE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| NEW YORK AND PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL | $200,000 |
| HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE | $200,000 |
| NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC | $150,000 |
| YOUNG MENS AND YOUNG WOMENS HEBREW ASSOCIATION | $125,000 |
| BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $100,000 |
| CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE | $100,000 |
| PUBLIC ART FUND | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Fuhrman Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
39 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 12 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $749k 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
- TFTHE FLAG FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION6× · 2019–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +108% · 100% of their budget
- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +154%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC7× · 2018–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +22%
Funded once
- MFMAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NYCone grant, 2017 · $171k
- BIBROOKLYN INSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL ARTSone grant, 2021 · $125k
- CFCOLLABORATIVE FOR SPIRITUALITY IN EDUCATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k
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…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)
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,…
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."
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Flag Foundation for Excellence in Education. 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 46 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 90 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 Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLAG FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ART FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NEW CURATORS INC ↗
- Who funds The New York and Presbyterian Hospital ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION ↗
- Who funds EDGE AND CENTER INC THE CHURCH ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
- Who funds SERPENTINE AMERICAS FOUNDATION FKA AMERICAS FOUNDATION OF THE SERPENTINE GA ↗
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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Ag Foundation · Acquavella Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Michaels Family Foundation Inc · The Campbell Family Foundation · The Speyer Family Foundation Inc · Daniel M Neidich & Brooke Garber Foundation · Mimi and Peter Haas Fund
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 Fuhrman Family 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 Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% 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.
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