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Jeanne and Dennis Masel Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$174k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$55k
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 2025.

Arts & Culture$546kCommunity Improvement$174kEducation$116kSocial Science$35kRecreation & Sports$34kHuman Services$28kFood & Nutrition$10kInternational$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $67k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$5,075
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Longhouse Reserve$3,000
One Tree Planted Inc$3,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%A LITTLE HELP: $25k → 12%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$844k · 14 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
11

Total granted

$844k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+15%

Still filing today

93%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • TB
    THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $305k · revenue +86%
  • TA
    TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $174k · revenue +8%
  • TB
    THE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $108k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • AL
    A LITTLE HELPgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +184%
  • TW
    THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • CITY HARVEST INC
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -3%
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
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
2
Berggruen Institute
Education
3
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
4
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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5
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
6
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
7
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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8
New Orleans Museum of Art

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.

Arts & Culture
9
The Parrish Art Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
10
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
11
White Columns Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Public Art Fund Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 33 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $304,600 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCESSundance Institute: $60,000 · Arts & CultureSundance InstituteWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $55,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $48,762 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL+4 more: $20,558 · Arts & CultureTRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC: $173,500 · OtherTRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INCSUNDANCE INSTITUTE: $35,000 · OtherSUNDANCE INSTITUTEIndividual grant recipient: $21,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPUBLIC ART FUND INC: $20,000 · OtherPUBLIC ART FUND INCTHE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF ART: $15,000 · Other+12 more: $41,479 · Other+12 moreTHE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL: $107,500 · EducationTHE BERKELEY …HAYGROUND SCHOOL INC: $8,811 · EducationHAYGROUND SCH…+1 more: $3,000 · EducationPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $33,697 · Recreation & SportsA LITTLE HELP: $25,000 · Human ServicesCITY HARVEST INC: $7,000 · Food & NutritionSYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM INC: $3,422 · Food & NutritionALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $6,145 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$488,920Other$306,479Education$119,311Recreation & Sports$33,697Human Services$25,000Food & Nutrition$10,422Housing & Shelter$6,145

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $304,600 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC: $173,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL: $107,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSundance Institute: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $48,762 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $33,697 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetA LITTLE HELP: $25,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetPUBLIC ART FUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHAYGROUND SCHOOL INC: $8,811 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBYRD HOFFMAN WATER MILL FOUNDATION: $8,045 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $6,145 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM INC: $3,422 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTCOUNCIL INC DBA ARTADIA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $2,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSILVER ART PROJECTS INC: $2,513 over 1y, 0.3% 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 Ford FoundationRockefeller Brothers …National Philanthropi…Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ford FoundationNY14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jeanne and Dennis Masel Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jeanne and Dennis Masel Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 33 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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