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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH$25,000
CITYSQUASH$25,000
ASPEN ART MUSEUM$25,000
02The need
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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, $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. Its 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
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

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

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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%
+17%

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
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

  • 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
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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Harbor Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

88 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. 88 of the 113 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
87/88
Grantees still filing
57/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPHS ARTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTORY BURCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $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.

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

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 Ganek Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ganek Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
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

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 113 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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