· Private foundation
Jean and Albert Nerken 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $128k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND(AKA THE ACTORS FUND) | $128,000 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $20,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $20,000 |
| JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER | $10,000 |
| UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC | $7,000 |
| VISITING NURSE SERVICE | $6,500 |
| COOPER UNION | $5,000 |
| STEP FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CHILDREN'S FIRST | $2,000 |
| BRINGING BOOKS TO LIFE INC | $1,000 |
| MAP INTERNATIONAL | $500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $500 |
| BROADWAY CARES EQUITY FIGHT AIDS INC | $500 |
| TECHNOSERVE INC | $250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
46 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TATHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA4× · 2019–2022 · $691k · revenue +72%
- MSMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC4× · 2020–2024 · $126k · revenue +37%
- JBJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $420k
- MSMOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL SYSTEMSone grant, 2022 · $40k
- MSMOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL SYSTEMone grant, 2024 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amnesty International of the Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Philadelphia Museum of Art. 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.
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 46 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
50 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. 50 of the 76 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds PTA OF MS 54 INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds IMPACT 100 NYC INC ↗
- Who funds Met Council Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Jean and Albert Nerken 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.
- Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.