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J & Ar Foundation

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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$751k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$4.5MArts & Culture$1.8MRecreation & Sports$1.3MInternational$517kHealth$273kEducation$146kHuman Services$67kReligion$53kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $259k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.2M
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN$750,994
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$486,552
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$156,972
PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE$102,001
PARK AVENUE ARMORY$40,000
BLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION$35,398
TRYALL FUND$25,000
ASIA SOCIETY$25,000
INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE & ART$15,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$10,000
UNITARIAN CHURCH OF ALL SOULS$10,000
UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION$10,000
RINGLING COLLEGE$10,000
PENTA MEDICAL RECYCLING$5,000
564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION$5,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $267k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EAST END HOSPICE: $2k → 7%TRYALL FUND: $29k → 9%EAST END HOSPICE: $2k → 7%TRYALL FUND: $25k → 9%EAST END HOSPICE: $1k → 7%TRYALL FUND: $8k → 9%TRYALL FUND: $1k → 9%RETREAT INC: $2k → 7%ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $2k → 7%ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $1k → 7%NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%FRIENDS OF GEORGICA POND FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%FRIENDS OF GEORGICA POND FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 7%MUSICA VIVA NY: $1k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $120k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $21k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $10k → 17%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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
SC
DC
FL

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.6M · 72 repeat orgs$319k to everyone else

72 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
51

Total granted

$8.6M
$298k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+38%

Still filing today

83%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • NY
    NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
    6× · 2019–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +42%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $853k · revenue +163%
  • AM
    American Museum of Natural History
    6× · 2019–2024 · $417k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $127k
  • CS
    CUNY SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • HF
    HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · $25k

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
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
2
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
3
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
4
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
5
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
6
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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7
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
8
Harvard Club of Ny Historical Foundation
Environment
9
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
10
The Trustees of the New York Society Library

The new york society library was founded in 1754 by the new york society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city of new york to prosper.

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11
New York Historical Society

The founding mission of the new-york historical society ("the new york historical "tnyh") is to collect, preserve, and interpret, for the broadest possible public, material relevant to the history of the united states in general and of new…

Arts & Culture
12
Manhattanville University

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

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of 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.

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 backsteadyPhilanthropic FoundationsSpecialized Schools and Ear…Animal Rescue and AdoptionDisease-Specific Research &…Community Preservation & He…Policy and Systems ChangeHealth & Human Services Sup…Arts & Cultural Organizatio…
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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%2%5–10yr21%10%10–20yr20%21%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr13%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr21%3%10–20yr20%5%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr13%69%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/107
the rest of the field
10%
2,918/27,950

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

103 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. 103 of the 133 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/103
Grantees still filing
78/103
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $4,437,136 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN+6 more — $43,000 · EnvironmentAmerican Museum of Natural History — $417,161 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum …PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE — $295,167 · Arts & CulturePRESERVATION LEA…FOUR FREEDOMS PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $153,500 · Arts & CultureFOUR FREEDOMS PA…THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER — $100,063 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUM…Municipal Art Society of New York — $100,000 · Arts & CultureMunicipal Art So…BLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION — $50,398 · Arts & Culture+27 more — $216,500 · Arts & Culture+27 morePARK AVENUE ARMORY — $462,405 · OtherPARK AVENUE ARM…MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NY — $155,981 · OtherMUNICIPAL ART S…Individual grant recipient — $127,000 · OtherIndividual gran…EAST HAMPTON LIBRARY — $62,000 · OtherEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $61,000 · Other+52 more — $338,950 · Other+52 moreCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $852,552 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PA…+3 more — $12,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE ASIA SOCIETY — $325,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $65,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME — $28,000 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $21,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $19,000 · International+7 more — $43,600 · InternationalTHE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC — $172,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $45,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $35,000 · EducationTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $27,500 · Education+8 more — $34,250 · EducationMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $151,000 · Human ServicesTryall Fund Jamaica — $63,200 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF GEORGICA POND FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · Human Services+5 more — $13,000 · Human Services
Environment$4,480,136Arts & Culture$1,332,789Other$1,207,336Recreation & Sports$865,052International$501,600Education$313,750Human Services$267,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $4,437,136 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $852,552 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $417,161 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY — $325,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE — $295,167 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC — $172,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetFOUR FREEDOMS PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $153,500 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $151,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER — $100,063 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMunicipal Art Society of New York — $100,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTryall Fund Jamaica — $63,200 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetEAST HAMPTON LIBRARY — $62,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $61,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetBLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION — $50,398 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF GEORGICA POND FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION — $31,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetAlbertine Foundation — $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME — $28,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budget564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMadison Square Boys & Girls Club — $21,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC — $18,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENTA MEDICAL RECYCLING CORP — $15,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetINTERSCHOOL ORCHESTRAS OF NEW YORK INC — $13,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELLEN FRANK ILLUMINATION ARTS FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetThe Foundation for a Civil Society LTD — $12,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICTS INC — $11,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVILLAGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF EAST HAMPTON INC — $10,500 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE LIVING CITY — $10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetWNET — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK CITY INC — $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC — $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Jamaica Inc — $7,100 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $7,000 over 4y, 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 Jm Kaplan Fund IncThe New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Daniel M Neidich & Br…The Ford FoundationThe Jct FoundationThe Robert and Joyce …Charina Foundation In…The Maryam and Hervey…Alfred & Jane Ross Fo…The Bernhill Fund
The Jm Kaplan Fund IncNY33.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Daniel M Neidich & Brooke Garber Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Jct Foundation · The Robert and Joyce Menschel Family Fdn · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · The Maryam and Hervey Seley Foundation · Alfred & Jane Ross Foundation Inc · The Bernhill Fund

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 J & Ar 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
29report 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 133 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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