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Jerome & Laura Dorfman Charitable Foundation C/O Ilene Giaquinta

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.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Health$184kEducation$25kPhilanthropy$14kHuman Services$9kInternational$8kFood & Nutrition$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kCivil Rights$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$6
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE$5,000
ST JUDES CHILDREN RESEARCH$5,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING$4,000
THE LUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$4,000
THE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION$4,000
RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE$2,000
BONE HEALTH AND OSTEOPOROSIS FOUNDA$2,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PBC$2,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$2,000
GIVE THE KIDS THE WORLD VILLAGE$1,000
TRUSTBRIDGE HOSPICE FDN$1,000
ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE$1,000
THE SMILE TRAIN$1,000
JFK MEDICAL CENTER$1,000
FEED THE CHILDREN$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $1k → 11%ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $1k → 11%ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $1k → 11%ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $1k → 11%ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $1k → 11%DORAT INC: $500 → 17%DORAT INC: $100 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
NJ
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
OK
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$233k · 38 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
4

Total granted

$233k
$3k

Still filing today

34%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TG
    THE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $32k · revenue +56%
  • TF
    THE FERD AND GLADYS ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICE OF PALM BEACH C OUNTY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +44%
  • FT
    FEED THE CHILDREN INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • GC
    GILDA'S CLUB WORLDWIDE
    one grant, 2019 · $350

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
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
3
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
4
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation

To provide with compassion and dedication superior quality health care and rehabilitation for adults and to directly or indirectly coordinate arrangements and provision for comprehensive health care and social support services to frail…

Health
7
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

8
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
9
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
10
Manhattan Eye & Ear Ophthalmology Alumni Foundation Inc
Health
11
The New York and Presbyterian Hospital

To be a leader in the provision of world class patient care, teaching, research, and service to local, state, national, and international communities. newyork-presbyterian hospital is one of the nation's most comprehensive, integrated…

Health
12
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 43 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST JUDES CHILDREN RESEARCH — $30,000 · OtherST JUDES CHILDREN RESEARCHWEILL CORNELL MEDICINE — $25,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICINETHE LUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY — $23,000 · OtherTHE LUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETYMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING — $23,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERINGHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY — $14,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYTHE FUND FOR MEDICINE — $9,000 · OtherNATIONAL OSTEOPORIS FOUNDATION — $8,000 · Other+24 more — $52,350 · Other+24 moreTHE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION INC — $32,000 · HealthTHE GLAUCOMA FOUN…OPHTHALMICEDGE INC — $3,500 · HealthOPHTHALMICEDGE IN…PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUND…+1 more — $200 · HealthJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $12,950 · PhilanthropyTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $800 · PhilanthropyFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $4,300 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,700 · InternationalTHE FERD AND GLADYS ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICE OF PALM BEACH C OUNTY INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesDOROT INC — $600 · Human ServicesThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $600 · Arts & CultureCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $300 · Food & Nutrition
Other$184,350Health$38,200Philanthropy$13,750International$6,000Human Services$5,600Arts & Culture$600Food & Nutrition$300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION INC — $32,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $12,950 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FERD AND GLADYS ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICE OF PALM BEACH C OUNTY INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $4,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $3,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOPHTHALMICEDGE INC — $3,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC
  • Who funds THE FERD AND GLADYS ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICE OF PALM BEACH C OUNTY INC
  • Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC
  • Who funds OPHTHALMICEDGE INC
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc
  • Who funds DOROT INC
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Jerome & Laura Dorfman Charitable Foundation C/O Ilene Giaquinta 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Feed the Children Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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