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Gifford Rudin Foundation at a glance

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Gifford Rudin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$76kHealth$61kEducation$52kScience & Tech$22kArts & Culture$15kCrime & Legal$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$587k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$12,000
VARIOUS CHARITIES CO R S KAPLAN CPA$9,050
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$5,500
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$5,000
ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL$2,500
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY$2,000
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION$1,500
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$1,500
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA$1,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CEN$1,000
THE ALS ASSOCIATION$1,000
MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH$750
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$750
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%HARVARD COLLEGE: $6k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2k → 16%STANFORD UNIVESITY GRADUATE SCHOOL: $1k → 8%NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: $4k → 17%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $12k → 20%AMERICAN DIABETES ASOCIATION: $1k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA: $1k → 17%VARIOUS CHARITIES CO R S KAPLAN CPA: $9k → 6%NATIONAL MS SOCIETY: $2k → 14%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2k → 16%STANFORD UNIVESITY GRADUATE SCHOOL: $1k → 8%NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOCIAT: $2k → 11%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $12k → 20%VARIOUS CHARITIES CO R S KAPLAN CPA: $9k → 6%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2k → 16%NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOCIAT: $2k → 11%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%UJA: $10k → 17%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $12k → 20%VARIOUS CHARITIES CO R S KAPLAN CPA: $7k → 6%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2k → 16%NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $10k → 20%VARIOUS CHARITIES CO R S KAPLAN CPA: $6k → 6%HARVARD COLLEGE: $3k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2k → 16%VARIOUS CHARTIES: $6k → 6%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%PRESIDENT FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEG: $2k → 8%ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL: $3k → 6%PRESIDENT FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEG: $2k → 8%ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL: $3k → 6%ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL: $3k → 6%ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL: $2k → 6%ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL: $2k → 6%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: $8k → 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

MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MD
TN
DC
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$191k · 24 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
7

Total granted

$191k
$28k

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $46k · revenue +19%
  • Cornell University
    5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +23%
  • SF
    ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • U
    UJA
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • HC
    HARVARD COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $9k
  • VC
    VARIOUS CHARTIES
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
4
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
5
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
6
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
7
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
8
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
9
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
10
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
11
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parkinson's Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

14 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. 14 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS CHARITIES CO R S KAPLAN CPA: $30,466 · OtherVARIOUS CHARITIES CO R S KAPLAN CPAUJA: $10,000 · OtherUJANATIONAL MS SOCIETY: $9,000 · OtherNATIONAL MS SOCIETYHARVARD COLLEGE: $8,500 · OtherHARVARD COLLEGEVARIOUS CHARTIES: $5,750 · OtherVARIOUS CHARTIESALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC: $5,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CEN: $4,000 · OtherPRESIDENT FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEG: $4,000 · OtherUNION COLLEGE: $3,500 · Other+11 more: $21,250 · Other+11 moreCornell University: $25,250 · EducationCornell UniversityPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $22,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of …TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $8,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSIT…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $46,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FE…PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $2,250 · PhilanthropyST FRANCIS HOSPITAL: $11,500 · HealthST FRANCIS …NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $6,000 · HealthNORTHWELL H…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $4,000 · HealthST JUDE CHI…PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S…THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $12,250 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SEEING EYE INC: $2,000 · Human Services
Other$101,466Education$55,250Philanthropy$50,750Health$24,500Arts & Culture$15,250Human Services$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $46,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $25,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $12,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS HOSPITAL: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $2,000 over 4y, 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.

  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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