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Herbert Rogowsky Foundation Inc at a glance

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Herbert Rogowsky Foundation Inc

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$31k
Granted FY2019
5
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$24k
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, FY2017 to 2019.

Health$132kHuman Services$108kEducation$79kPhilanthropy$70kArts & Culture$56kReligion$16kInternational$10kCrime & Legal$6kOther$0
02FY2019 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k4 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$24,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE$3,864
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$2,000
THE PICTURE HOUSE$500
WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE$180
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CARVER CENTER: $1k → 9%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $500 → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$397k · 6 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

$397k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+89%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $680 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    3× · 2017–2019 · $79k · revenue +81%
  • AI
    ARTSWESTCHESTER INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $55k · revenue +67%
  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $9k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +80%
  • SP
    SAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +335%
  • PC
    PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +94%
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 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
2
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
3
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
4
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
5
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
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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7
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
8
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
9
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
10
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
11
International Committee of the Red Cross

The international committee of the red cross (switzerland)(icrc) is an impartial, neutral, and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and of violence…

International
12
Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Westchester Jewish Community Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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 19 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
15/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $132,170 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOC…+1 more: $500 · HealthUJA: $106,600 · OtherUJAJCCH: $15,096 · OtherJCCHSAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION: $5,000 · Other+5 more: $3,180 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $79,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCH…FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $70,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTM…ARTSWESTCHESTER INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureARTSWESTCHEST…+2 more: $750 · Arts & CultureThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $8,864 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $500 · InternationalHIAS INC: $500 · InternationalANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Health$132,670Other$129,876Education$79,000Community Improvement$70,000Arts & Culture$55,750International$9,864Civil Rights$5,000

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 budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $132,170 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $79,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $70,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTSWESTCHESTER INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $8,864 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PICTURE HOUSE REGIONAL FILM CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $250 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 New York Communit…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The New York Community TrustNY15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Herbert Rogowsky Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herbert Rogowsky Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 19 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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