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Ganek 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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$575k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Science & Tech$1.4MArts & Culture$1.3MHealth$1.0MPhilanthropy$897kYouth Development$706kEducation$344kHuman Services$185kPublic Safety & Disaster$95kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $347k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $550k
  • $250k+1 grant · $575k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$575,000
SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME$100,000
CITYSQUASH$100,000
GOODNATION FOUNDATION$100,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$50,000
NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC$50,000
GOODNATION FOUNDATION$50,000
IBG FOUNDATION$50,000
HANLEY FOUNDATION$50,000
THE RAYMOND F GRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC$30,000
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBARY$29,317
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION$25,000
NARRATIVE 4$25,000
CITYSQUASH$25,000
PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $193k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%IBG FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $5k → 7%THE TORY BURCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $50k → 6%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $50k → 6%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $10k → 17%THE FARMLINK PROJECT: $5k → 17%RXART: $13k → 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

ME
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
TN
DC
FL

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.1M · 33 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
62

Total granted

$4.1M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+16%

Still filing today

79%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $360k 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 & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

  • CS
    City Squash Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $400k · revenue +8%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2019–2023 · $293k · revenue +76%
  • TS
    THE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME
    8× · 2017–2024 · $260k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SPENCE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $125k · revenue +17%
  • TO
    THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +1%
  • TM
    THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM ART
    one grant, 2018 · $75k

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

04Your 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.

1
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
2
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
3
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
4
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
5
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
6
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
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
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
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
11
Stony Brook Orthopedic 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
12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Harbor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hanley Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Religious Education …Youth Sports ProgramsHome Health Care ServicesProfessional Associations &…Jewish Educational Foundati…Medical Research FundingSocial Justice and Sustaina…Arts and Performance Organi…Early Childhood and K-12 Ed…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%1%<5yr15%7%5–10yr21%17%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr12%21%35–55yr11%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%6%5–10yr21%11%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr12%34%35–55yr11%23%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/88
the rest of the field
14%
14,687/108,668

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

88 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. 88 of the 113 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/88
Grantees still filing
55/88
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS — $1,388,527 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCHOOL O…MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $120,000 · OtherTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Other+49 more — $966,817 · Other+49 moreASPEN ART MUSEUM — $482,500 · Arts & CultureASPEN ART MUSEUMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $293,159 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM…The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc — $60,000 · Arts & CultureThe Preservation Fo…THE CORPORATION OF YADDO — $42,500 · Arts & Culture+16 more — $184,750 · Arts & Culture+16 moreJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $575,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL…Goodnation Foundation Inc — $150,000 · PhilanthropyGoodnation Foun…HANLEY FOUNDATION — $57,500 · PhilanthropyHANLEY FOUNDATI…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $55,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHI…+5 more — $29,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME — $260,000 · HealthTHE SOUTHAMPT…NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $105,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRES…RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC — $65,000 · HealthRESEARCH FOUN…CMC FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE — $55,000 · HealthCMC FOUNDATIO…CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 · HealthCHILD MIND IN…BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 · HealthBOB WOODRUFF …CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $34,100 · HealthTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 · Health+10 more — $75,000 · Health+10 moreCity Squash Inc — $400,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE SPENCE SCHOOL — $125,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $67,500 · EducationTHE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $62,500 · EducationLiteracy Partners Inc — $22,400 · EducationYEAR UP INC — $12,500 · Education+3 more — $23,560 · EducationTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK — $241,300 · Youth DevelopmentNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC — $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,575,344Arts & Culture$1,062,909Philanthropy$866,500Health$739,100Recreation & Sports$405,000Education$313,460Youth Development$276,300

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 budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $575,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN ART MUSEUM — $482,500 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetCity Squash Inc — $400,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $293,159 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME — $260,000 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK — $241,300 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetGoodnation Foundation Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SPENCE SCHOOL — $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $105,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $67,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC — $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNARRATIVE 4 INC — $65,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $62,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION — $61,500 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc — $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHANLEY FOUNDATION — $57,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCMC FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE — $55,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetIBG FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF YADDO — $42,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $34,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC — $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLiteracy Partners Inc — $22,400 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetARTSCONNECTION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN COMMUNITY TELEVISION CENTER INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRX ART INC — $12,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRED SNEAKERS FOR OAKLEY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTORY BURCH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL — $10,000 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Earle I Mack Foundati…National Philanthropi…Kahn Charitable Found…Holly Peterson Founda…Robertson FoundationThe Hyde and Watson F…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bessemer Giving F…
Jewish Communal FundNY25.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Earle I Mack Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Kahn Charitable Foundation · Holly Peterson Foundation · Robertson Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bessemer Giving 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 Ganek 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
  • New Hope Charities Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ganek Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ganek 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 113 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.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
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