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Grodzins Fund at a glance

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Grodzins Fund

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$261k
Granted FY2026still arriving
46
Grants FY2026still arriving
9
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$187kEducation$174kCivil Rights$118kHuman Services$84kHealth$58kFood & Nutrition$57kEnvironment$54kInternational$25kOther$0
02FY2026 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k34 grants · $91k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $170k
$4,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES$30,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JAMAICA$25,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY$20,000
CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS$15,000
NYCLU FOUNDATION$10,000
INTERNET ARCHIVE$10,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$10,000
CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST$10,000
DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION$10,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$10,000
CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS$10,000
GROWNYC$10,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$7,000
GALLOPNYC$5,000
ROYAL MARSDEN CO CHAPEL & YORK FDN$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–26, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $10k → 10%GALLOPNYC: $5k → 13%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $10k → 10%GALLOPNYC: $3k → 13%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $10k → 10%GALLOPNYC: $3k → 13%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $10k → 10%GALLOPNYC: $3k → 13%THE READING TEAM: $2k → 17%THE READING TEAM: $2k → 17%THE READING TEAM: $2k → 17%THE READING TEAM: $2k → 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

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WA
MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$973k · 47 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2026, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
21

Total granted

$973k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
0%

Still filing today

77%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • TN
    The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations
    6× · 2020–2026 · $110k · revenue +55%
  • MS
    MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC
    4× · 2023–2026 · $95k · revenue +40%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
    5× · 2022–2026 · $60k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • CO
    CORNERSTONES OF SCIENCEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +35%
  • AO
    AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +37%
  • TB
    THE BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue 0%
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
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
2
Manhattanville University

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

Education
3
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
4
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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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
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
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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9
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
10
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
11
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
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 New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the most unlike its peers is The Neue Galerie New York. 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

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 73 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)
55/55
Grantees still filing
35/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $110,000 · EducationThe New York Public Libr…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $33,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute …BEHIND THE BOOK INC: $30,000 · EducationBEHIND THE BOOK INCBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $15,000 · EducationBANK STREET COLLEGE OF E…CORNERSTONES OF SCIENCE: $10,000 · EducationAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · Education+6 more: $30,500 · Education+6 moreIndividual grant recipient: $42,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $35,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL C…THE SYMPHONY SPACE INC: $20,000 · OtherTHE SYMPHONY SPACE INCWILMER EYE INSTITUTE: $20,000 · OtherWILMER EYE INSTITUTEMONTEGO BAY ANIMAL HAVEN BREDEFEL & ASSOC: $12,500 · OtherChamber Music Society: $12,000 · OtherWSCAH: $10,000 · OtherCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $45,000 · OtherCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT IN…DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherTHE RYR-1 FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Other+20 more: $61,500 · Other+20 moreCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $60,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CONS…NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Civil RightsNEW YORK CIVIL …AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL …ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $15,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR JU…THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $12,500 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR …MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC: $95,000 · InternationalMUSTARD SEED CO…American Friends of Jamaica Inc: $45,000 · InternationalAmerican Friend…THE ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATIONINC: $5,000 · International+3 more: $3,750 · InternationalTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN B…PRO PUBLICA INC: $17,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA …NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $11,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHA…THE AMERICAN PROSPECT INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN…THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARM…THE BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER: $9,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BRONX DO…THE NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK: $6,500 · Arts & CultureTHE NEUE GAL…NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFILM INDEPENDENT: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 · Arts & CultureReal News Project Inc: $4,000 · Arts & CultureLANDMARK WEST INC: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $50,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $25,000 · Food & NutritionInternet Archive: $40,000 · Human ServicesGIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesREADING TEAM INC: $8,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human Services
Education$238,500Other$285,500Civil Rights$152,500International$148,750Arts & Culture$119,500Food & Nutrition$75,000Human Services$65,000

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 budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Jamaica Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInternet Archive: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $33,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEHIND THE BOOK INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SYMPHONY SPACE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $16,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RYR-1 FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN PROSPECT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONES OF SCIENCE: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER: $9,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetREADING TEAM INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATIONINC: $5,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReal News Project Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLANDMARK WEST INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMONTEGO BAY ANIMAL HAVEN LIMITED: $3,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrust Women Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDISCALCED INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $1,000 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.

The Ford FoundationThe New York Communit…Cornelia T Bailey Cha…The Hyde and Watson F…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…American Express Foun…Boston Foundation IncJpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…
The Ford FoundationNY17.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Express Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
9report 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 Grodzins Fund?

Find your warmest path to Grodzins Fund 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 73 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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