· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chabad Lubavitch of NW Bergen County | $200,000 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $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 |
| YESHIVA UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| Institute of International Education | $25,000 |
| The Society of the Four Arts | $25,000 |
| Council on Foreign Relations | $25,000 |
| The Jewish Museum | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +48% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
112 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. 112 of the 185 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 New York University ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Henry and Elaine Kaufman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry and Elaine Kaufman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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