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J & Ar Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$755k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$4.5MArts & Culture$1.8MRecreation & Sports$1.3MInternational$517kHealth$273kEducation$146kHuman Services$67kReligion$53kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $199k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $309k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.2M
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN$755,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$475,000
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$156,733
PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE$102,500
TRYALL FUND$50,000
SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY CONSERVANCY INC$40,000
ASIA SOCIETY$25,000
EAST HAMPTON LIBRARY$25,000
VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER INC$25,000
CONGREGATION EMANU-EL$19,350
MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NY$15,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$10,000
INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE & ART$10,000
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$10,000
FOUR FREEDOMS PARK CONSERVANCY INC$10,000
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 (FY19–25, $327k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%EAST END HOSPICE: $2k → 7%TRYALL FUND: $50k → 9%EAST END HOSPICE: $2k → 7%TRYALL FUND: $29k → 9%EAST END HOSPICE: $1k → 7%TRYALL FUND: $25k → 9%TRYALL FUND: $8k → 9%TRYALL FUND: $1k → 9%ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $2k → 7%RETREAT INC: $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%FRIENDS OF GEORGICA POND FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 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
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

ME
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
SC
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 73 repeat orgs$357k to everyone else

73 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
55

Total granted

$10M
$309k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+44%

Still filing today

84%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
    7× · 2019–2025 · $5.2M · revenue +42%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +163%
  • AM
    American Museum of Natural History
    7× · 2019–2025 · $574k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $127k
  • HF
    HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • CS
    CUNY SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
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 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 Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
9
Harvard Club of Ny Historical Foundation
Environment
10
Ukrainian Museum

The mission of the ukrainian museum is to acquire, preserve, exhibit & interpret articles of artistic, historic, & scientific value related to ukrainian life & culture; to promote all aspects of ukrainian culture; & to educate the public…

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tryall Fund Jamaica. 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

106 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. 106 of the 137 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/106
Grantees still filing
81/106
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $5,192,136 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN+6 more: $43,000 · EnvironmentAmerican Museum of Natural History: $573,894 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum o…PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE: $397,667 · Arts & CulturePRESERVATION LEAG…FOUR FREEDOMS PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $163,500 · Arts & CultureFOUR FREEDOMS PAR…THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $125,063 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUMO…Municipal Art Society of New York: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMunicipal Art Soc…+30 more: $311,898 · Arts & Culture+30 moreCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,327,552 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK C…+3 more: $12,500 · Recreation & SportsPARK AVENUE ARMORY: $462,405 · OtherPARK AVENUE A…MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NY: $170,981 · OtherMUNICIPAL ART…Individual grant recipient: $127,000 · OtherIndividual gr…EAST HAMPTON LIBRARY: $87,000 · OtherEAST HAMPTON …EAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $66,000 · Other+54 more: $365,800 · Other+54 moreTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $350,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $65,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $30,000 · 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: $182,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $55,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · EducationTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $20,000 · Education+7 more: $24,250 · EducationMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $151,000 · Human ServicesTryall Fund Jamaica: $113,200 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF GEORGICA POND FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Human Services+5 more: $13,000 · Human Services
Environment$5,235,136Arts & Culture$1,672,022Recreation & Sports$1,340,052Other$1,279,186International$528,600Education$343,750Human Services$327,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $5,192,136 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,327,552 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $573,894 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE: $397,667 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $350,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC: $182,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetFOUR FREEDOMS PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $163,500 over 5y, 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: $125,063 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTryall Fund Jamaica: $113,200 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetMunicipal Art Society of New York: $100,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetEAST HAMPTON LIBRARY: $87,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $66,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION: $50,398 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF GEORGICA POND FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 3y, 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: $30,000 over 5y, 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 budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $20,000 over 2y, 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 budgetPENTA MEDICAL RECYCLING CORP: $15,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICTS INC: $14,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERSCHOOL ORCHESTRAS OF NEW YORK INC: $13,000 over 2y, 1.2% 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 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 budgetWNET: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE LIVING CITY: $10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC: $8,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK CITY INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.5% 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
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 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

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 J & Ar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J & Ar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
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 137 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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