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Fuhrman Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$6.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$8.6MEducation$5.5MHealth$3.7MRecreation & Sports$3.0MPhilanthropy$2.1MHuman Services$1.4MReligion$1.4MFood & Nutrition$324kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $330k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+8 grants · $4.6M
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$78M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION$250,000
BARD COLLEGE$250,000
HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE$200,000
NEW YORK AND PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL$200,000
NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC$150,000
YOUNG MENS AND YOUNG WOMENS HEBREW ASSOCIATION$125,000
TEACHERS COLLEGE$100,000
BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS$100,000
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE$100,000
02The need
03

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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC: $10k → 7%FORBES HOUSE: $10k → 9%BLESSINGS UNDER THE BRIDGE: $10k → 12%GOODFOUNDATION: $10k → 17%GOODFOUNDATION: $10k → 17%GOODFOUNDATION: $10k → 17%HARLEM DOWLING WEST SIDE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $200k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $200k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $165k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $163k → 17%HIDDEN WATER INC: $10k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $150k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $10k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $150k → 17%HIDDEN WATER INC: $10k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $150k → 17%HIDDEN WATER INC: $10k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $150k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY PROJECT OF LOWER MANHATTAN: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
DC
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Fuhrman Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 92%.

Fuhrman Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 39 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
37

Total granted

$24M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+39%

Still filing today

95%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $749k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TF
    THE FLAG FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +108% · 100% of their budget
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +154%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • MF
    MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NYC
    one grant, 2017 · $171k
  • BI
    BROOKLYN INSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL ARTS
    one grant, 2021 · $125k
  • AF
    ART FOR JUSTICE FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
2
Museum of the City of New York

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Berggruen Institute
Education
5
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
6
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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,…

Arts & Culture
7
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
8
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
9
New York Studio School

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)

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10
New Museum of Contemporary Art

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Philadelphia Museum of Art

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/72
Grantees still filing
50/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Museum of Modern Art: $4,262,500 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern ArtMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,080,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $558,768 · Arts & CultureTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INCTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $535,621 · Arts & CultureTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATIONTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $365,000 · Arts & Culture+19 more: $806,100 · Arts & Culture+19 moreTHE FLAG FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION: $3,005,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FLAG FOUNDATION FO…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,962,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-F…+4 more: $246,800 · PhilanthropyNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $3,275,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBY…The New York and Presbyterian Hospital: $200,000 · HealthThe New York an…+2 more: $81,800 · HealthBARD COLLEGE: $1,400,000 · EducationBARD COLLE…EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK: $314,220 · EducationEDIBLE SCH…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $290,000 · EducationTRUSTEES O…THE SPENCE SCHOOL: $226,000 · EducationTHE SPENCE…OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION: $134,000 · EducationTeachers College Columbia University: $100,000 · Education+5 more: $109,500 · EducationCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,391,500 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PA…PUBLIC ART FUND INC: $505,000 · OtherPUBLIC ART FUND …NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC: $486,200 · OtherNEW YORK ROAD RU…CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $358,000 · OtherCENTRAL SYNAGOGU…MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NYC: $170,985 · OtherBROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $150,000 · OtherTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $910,000 · OtherTHE YOUNG MEN'S …THE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · OtherTHE NETHERLAND-A…FRIENDS OF NEW CURATORS INC: $200,000 · Other+26 more: $766,099 · Other+26 moreHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $1,327,825 · Human Services+9 more: $104,800 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$7,607,989Philanthropy$5,213,800Health$3,556,800Education$2,573,720Recreation & Sports$2,391,500Other$3,796,284Human Services$1,432,625

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $4,262,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $3,275,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FLAG FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION: $3,005,000 over 6y, 100% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,391,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,962,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $1,400,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $1,327,825 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,080,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $910,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $558,768 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $535,621 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetPUBLIC ART FUND INC: $505,000 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetNEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC: $486,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $365,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK: $314,220 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $290,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $226,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe New York and Presbyterian Hospital: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NEW CURATORS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN DISCOURSE COALITION: $134,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetEDGE AND CENTER INC THE CHURCH: $113,100 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $110,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $70,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSERPENTINE AMERICAS FOUNDATION FKA AMERICAS FOUNDATION OF THE SERPENTINE GA: $60,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetARETE LIVING ARTS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetBRIDGE HAMPTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA THE BRIDGE HAMPTON MUSEUM: $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN ART MUSEUM: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFederal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetPS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHIDDEN WATER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI CHILDREN'S CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGARDEN OF DREAMS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…Ag FoundationAcquavella Family Fou…The Ayco Charitable F…National Philanthropi…The Michaels Family F…The Campbell Family F…The Speyer Family Fou…Daniel M Neidich & Br…Mimi and Peter Haas F…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY37.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fuhrman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fuhrman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Fuhrman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fuhrman Family Foundation 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 90 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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