· Private foundation
Henry and Elaine Kaufman Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $200,000 |
| Chabad Lubavitch of NW Bergen County | $200,000 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta | $150,000 |
| Jewish Communal Fund | $150,000 |
| Jewish Communal Fund | $150,000 |
| Kaufman Music Center | $100,000 |
| Reconstructing Judaism | $72,000 |
| Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County | $62,000 |
| The Valley Hospital Foundation | $50,000 |
| Temple Beth Rishon | $36,000 |
| Council on Foreign Relations | $25,000 |
| Institute of International Education | $25,000 |
| The Society of the Four Arts | $25,000 |
| YESHIVA UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| The Jewish Museum | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $355k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 69 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- EKELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE7× · 2017–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +28% · 30% of their budget
- BHBUSINESS HISTORY CONFERENCE2× · 2022–2023 · $5.0M · revenue +100% · 93% of their budget
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $1.2M · revenue +72%
Funded once
- NYNew York Universitygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +51%
- MSMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $325k · revenue +34%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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.…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
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…
For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
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."
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Mentor Project 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.
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 46 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
112 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. 112 of the 185 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS HISTORY CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JERUSALEM FELLOWSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE MUSSAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF AMERICAN FINANCE ↗
- Who funds VLADIMIR AND HAEWON FELTSMAN PIANO VLADIMIR & HAEWON FELTSMAN PIANO FO ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Allan & Melanie Nelkin Foundation Inc · The Selig Foundation Inc · Ron and Lisa Brill Charitable Trust · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · The Berman Charitable Trust · The Zaban Foundation Inc · Epstein Family Foundation · Cooper Family Foundation Inc · Charles & Esther Lee Kimerling Charitable 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 Henry and Elaine Kaufman Foundation Inc 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Montclair Art Museum — 11% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Valley Hospital Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Austen Riggs Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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