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Glen & Lynn Tobias Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Glen & Lynn Tobias Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$19k
Granted FY2020
10
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2020.

Arts & Culture$15kReligion$9kPhilanthropy$7kHealth$5kYouth Development$2kHuman Services$2kHousing & Shelter$1kRecreation & Sports$600Other$0
02FY2020 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION EMANU-EL$5,000
THE JEWISH MUSEUM$5,000
UJA FEDERATION NEW YORK$2,235
UJA FEDERATION NEW YORK$1,800
MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL$1,000
NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM$1,000
HUDSON GUILD$1,000
A BETTER CHANCE$1,000
GREYSTON FOUNDATION$500
ERIC RICHENSTEIN MEMORIAL FUND$400
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 (FY19–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES: $500 → 9%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES: $500 → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $1k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $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.
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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19k · 4 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
13

Total granted

$19k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+32%

Still filing today

75%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • TJ
    THE JEWISH MUSEUM
    2× · 2019–2020 · $8k · revenue +30%
  • AB
    A BETTER CHANCE INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +6%
  • HG
    HUDSON GUILDINC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +32%
  • PC
    PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE LEHIGH VALLEYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +123%
  • TV
    THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -2%
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
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
2
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
3
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
4
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
5
Manhattanville University

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

Education
6
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

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 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
9
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
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
11
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
12
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc; the most unlike its peers is New York Historical Society. 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

16 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. 16 of the 24 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JEWISH MUSEUM: $7,500 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUMTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $3,165 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY …THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LIN…ELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE: $1,000 · Arts & CultureELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSE…New York Historical Society: $1,000 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical SocietyCONGREGATION EMANUEL: $7,500 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANUELA BETTER CHANCE INC: $2,000 · OtherA BETTER CHANCE INCTEMPLE EMANU-EL: $1,500 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-ELWGA CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $600 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 · OtherBREAST CANCER RESEARCH: $500 · OtherTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Other+4 more: $1,125 · Other+4 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $4,035 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWIS…GREYSTON FOUNDATION INC: $500 · PhilanthropyGREYSTON FOU…PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY: $2,500 · HealthPEDIATRIC…THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $1,000 · HealthTHE MOUNT…HUDSON GUILDINC: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesFJC: $1,200 · Crime & LegalAmerican Friends of Jamaica Inc: $500 · International
Arts & Culture$15,165Other$14,225Philanthropy$4,535Health$3,500Human Services$3,000Crime & Legal$1,200International$500

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 budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $4,035 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $3,165 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON GUILDINC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFJC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Jamaica Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREYSTON FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Glen & Lynn Tobias Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Glen & Lynn Tobias Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 24 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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