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Gottsegen Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$182k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MInternational$285kPublic Benefit$65kEducation$64kHealth$55kPhilanthropy$30kHuman Services$24kAnimals$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $97k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts$55,000
Society of the Four Arts$25,000
Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach$17,220
Palm Beach Civic Association$15,000
United Way of Palm Beach$10,000
Norton Museum of Art Inc$10,000
Boscobel Restoration Inc$10,000
South Florida PBS Inc$10,000
Grace Farms Foundation Inc$5,000
New World Symphony$5,000
Teatro Nuovo Inc$5,000
The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc$5,000
Palm Beach Symphony$3,500
Boys & Girls Club of Palm Beach County$3,000
Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens Inc$1,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Boscobel Restoration Inc: $10k → 6%CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AND THE A: $200k → 9%St Lukes Chamber Ensemble Inc: $24k → 17%PALM BEACH SYMPHONY: $102k → 11%NEW WORLD SYMPHONY: $10k → 15%SALISBURY SCHOOL: $10k → 9%Broadway Dreams: $10k → 13%COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOLL: $10k → 6%Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts: $55k → 9%Orchestra of St Luke's: $10k → 17%The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc: $51k → 11%CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AND THE A: $45k → 9%INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIO: $15k → 17%Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach: $49k → 11%CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AND THE A: $15k → 9%PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $10k → 17%CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH: $40k → 11%PALM BEACH SYMPHONY: $25k → 11%United Way of Palm Beach: $20k → 11%Norton Museum of Art Inc: $10k → 11%CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH: $10k → 11%BEDFORD PLAYHOUSE: $10k → 9%CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH: $10k → 11%BEDFORD PLAYHOUSE: $10k → 9%CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH: $10k → 11%United Way of Palm Beach: $10k → 11%ALL-STAR ORCHESTRA: $10k → 9%Norton Museum of Art Inc: $10k → 11%CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH: $10k → 11%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $25k → 17%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $25k → 17%TWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDA: $25k → 17%Council on Foreign Relations: $25k → 17%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $25k → 17%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $25k → 17%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $25k → 17%Council on Foreign Relations: $25k → 17%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $25k → 17%INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIO: $35k → 17%INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIO: $35k → 17%Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach: $45k → 11%Society of the Four Arts: $25k → 11%ORCHESTRA OF ST LUKE'S: $25k → 17%Society of the Four Arts: $25k → 11%Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach: $17k → 11%Palm Beach Civic Association: $16k → 11%Palm Beach Civic Association: $15k → 11%Society of the Four Arts: $10k → 11%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.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 27 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
24

Total granted

$1.4M
$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+0%

Still filing today

85%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyInternationalEnvironmentOther

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

  • CM
    CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $212k · revenue +198%
  • CO
    COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +18%
  • TP
    THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $197k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • TE
    TWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -41%
  • TO
    TOWN OF PALM BEACH
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k

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
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Associates Inc

The general purpose of the organization is to promote chamber music concerts to the general public.

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Florida Grand Opera Inc

The mission of florida grand opera is to enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera while supporting the operations of the greater miami opera and the opera guild, inc. by expanding its reach to diverse…

Arts & Culture
4
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
5
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
6
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
7
Artis-Naples Inc

Please refer to schedule o for the organization's complete mission statement.

Arts & Culture
8
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
9
Pittsburgh Symphony Inc

It is the mission of the pittsburgh symphony orchestra to engage, enrich, and inspire through unparalleled live musical experiences.

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival

Present the world's greatest musical artists in chamber music concerts of classical and alternative genres for diverse audiences. offer music education to concert attendees, students, and aspiring young musicians.

Arts & Culture
12
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Society of the Four Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boscobel Restoration Inc. 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 backsteadyCommunity Arts & Performanc…International Arts & Cultur…Family Philanthropic Founda…Union Member Benefit PlansChristian Gospel MinistriesYouth Development and Commu…
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 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr21%21%10–20yr20%23%20–35yr12%18%35–55yr13%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr21%22%10–20yr20%10%20–35yr12%26%35–55yr13%41%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/46
the rest of the field
12%
4,891/41,723

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

46 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. 46 of the 57 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
29/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH INC — $211,610 · Arts & CultureCHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH INCTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC — $197,412 · Arts & CultureTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC — $104,000 · Arts & CultureST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INCThe Society of the Four Arts Inc — $80,150 · Arts & CultureThe Society of the Four Arts IncCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc — $55,000 · Arts & CultureCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts IncNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $32,500 · Arts & Culture+11 more — $155,000 · Arts & Culture+11 moreCARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AND THE A — $272,500 · OtherCARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AN…United Way of Palm Beach — $30,000 · OtherUnited Way of Palm BeachBOSCOBEL RESTORATION INC — $22,500 · OtherSACRED HEART SCHOOL — $15,100 · OtherALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Other+18 more — $66,925 · Other+18 moreCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $200,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN …INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC — $85,000 · InternationalINSTITUTE OF INTERN…+1 more — $2,000 · InternationalPalm Beach Civic Association Inc — $54,837 · Community ImprovementNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC — $20,000 · EducationCOLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC — $13,500 · EducationSALISBURY SCHOOL INC — $10,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $16,500 · HealthPALM BEACH COUNTY MEDICAL SERVICES INC — $10,000 · HealthVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK — $5,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $2,250 · Health+1 more — $100 · HealthPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS — $17,250 · PhilanthropyGRACE FARMS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyLEADERS IN FURTHERING EDUCATION INC — $2,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$835,672Other$422,025International$287,000Community Improvement$54,837Education$49,500Health$33,850Philanthropy$24,250

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 budgetCHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH INC — $211,610 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $200,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC — $197,412 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC — $104,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC — $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc — $80,150 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPalm Beach Civic Association Inc — $54,837 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetALL-STAR ORCHESTRA SUMMIT — $25,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetBOSCOBEL RESTORATION INC — $22,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEDFORD PLAYHOUSE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS — $17,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTeatro Nuovo Inc — $17,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $16,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE — $16,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc — $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC — $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DARBSTER FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTY MEDICAL SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSALISBURY SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget101 EAST 69TH STREET CONSERVANCY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc — $2,425 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERS IN FURTHERING EDUCATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE VENICE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWestchester Land Trust Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGlades Academy Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENS LEDGE LIGHT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $100 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.

The William H Pitt Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Ayco Charitable F…Renaissance Charitabl…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …The Bank of America C…Amazonsmile Foundation
The William H Pitt Foundation IncFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William H Pitt Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Gottsegen 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
  • New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc — 0% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 57 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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