· Private foundation
Jeanne and Dennis Masel Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $67k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROOKLYN MUSEUM | $55,000 |
| SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $21,500 |
| TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES | $10,000 |
| THE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| Watermill Center | $6,135 |
| Prospect Park Alliance | $5,589 |
| HAYGROUND SCHOOL INC | $5,075 |
| MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN | $5,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $5,000 |
| ALI FORNEY CENTER INC | $4,145 |
| Independent Curators International | $3,744 |
| Artadia (The Art Council Inc) | $3,099 |
| One Tree Planted Inc | $3,000 |
| Longhouse Reserve | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 8 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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
- TBTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES9× · 2017–2025 · $305k · revenue +86%
- TATRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC5× · 2017–2025 · $174k · revenue +8%
- TBTHE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $108k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- ALA LITTLE HELPgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +184%
- TWTHE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2020 · $15k
CITY HARVEST INCone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -3%
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.
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)
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
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.
The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.
The museum encourages an appreciation of modern and contemporary art through exhibitions, education, and public programs for diverse audiences.inspired by the natural setting and historical artistic community of long island's east end, the…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
White columns identifies significant emerging and under-represented visual artists and encourages their creative and professional development through the presentation of group and solo exhibitions, an online curated artists registry, and…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Public Art Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is World Bicycle Relief Nfp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 33 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 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds A LITTLE HELP ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ART FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HAYGROUND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BYRD HOFFMAN WATER MILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds New Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
- Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
- Who funds SYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM INC ↗
- Who funds ARTCOUNCIL INC DBA ARTADIA ↗
- Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗
- Who funds LONGHOUSE RESERVE ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER ART PROJECTS 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: The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Jeanne and Dennis Masel Foundation Inc 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.
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.