How much does Jack and Dorothy Kupferberg Family Foundation give?

Jack and Dorothy Kupferberg Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $300,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Jack and Dorothy Kupferberg Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Health (24%), Education (15%).

Who are Jack and Dorothy Kupferberg Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Footsteps Inc ($409k), Northwell Health Foundation ($350k), Queens Museum of Art ($300k).

Does Jack and Dorothy Kupferberg Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Jack and Dorothy Kupferberg Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Jack and Dorothy Kupferberg Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Kupferberg Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Hyde and Watson Foundation.

Where is Jack and Dorothy Kupferberg Family Foundation based?

Jack and Dorothy Kupferberg Family Foundation is based in NY.

Jack and Dorothy Kupferberg Family Foundation

Jack and Dorothy Kupferberg Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Jack and Dorothy Kupferberg Family 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.

$300k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$65k

Largest

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 2025.

Human Services$987kHealth$649kEducation$411kArts & Culture$315kFood & Nutrition$102kRecreation & Sports$57kInternational$55kCommunity Improvement$45kOther$0

02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k15 grants · $64k
$10k–50k5 grants · $121k
$50k–250k2 grants · $115k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FOOTSTEPS	$65,000
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION	$50,000
GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITYAWRI	$35,000
NORTH SHORE CHILD & FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER	$35,000
TRINITY COLLEGE	$23,000
PATHWAYS FOR CHANGE	$18,000
DEXTER SOUTHFIELD	$10,000
MAUI FOOD BANK	$7,000
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK	$7,000
OXFAM AMERICA	$6,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MA	$5,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE	$5,000
FRESH AIR FUND	$5,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION	$5,000
LODESTAR CHILDREN'S SERVICES	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $460k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.5M · 33 repeat orgs$136k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.5M

$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+59%

Still filing today

76%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureAnimalsInternationalOther

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

FI
FOOTSTEPS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $409k · revenue +214%
NH
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $350k · revenue +17%
QM
QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART
8× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +56%

Funded once

TF
TAPROOT FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $20k
QC
QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSEgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +111%
JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +26%

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.

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Matan Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 57 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/45

Grantees still filing

33/45

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$869,050Health$596,500Other$446,500Education$394,250Arts & Culture$311,000International$55,000Food & Nutrition$49,000

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.

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 Kupferberg FoundationDE17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Kupferberg Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ford Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment 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 Jack and Dorothy Kupferberg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack and Dorothy Kupferberg Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

3rely 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.

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