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Jesse and Joan Kupferberg Family Foundation at a glance

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Jesse and Joan Kupferberg Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$501k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Health$751kEducation$708kPhilanthropy$653kCivil Rights$541kArts & Culture$407kReligion$325kHuman Services$136kEmployment$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $327k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$80,000
NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE$50,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$40,000
NICHOLAS CENTER LTD$40,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$35,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC$30,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTH$25,000
NICHOLAS CENTER LTD$25,000
AUTISM SCIENCE FOUNDATION$25,000
NICHOLAS CENTER LTD$20,000
CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL$15,000
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$12,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC$10,000
MATAN INC$10,000
NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY$10,000
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 (FY19–24, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MATAN INC: $10k → 28%MATAN INC: $30k → 17%MATAN INC: $25k → 17%MATAN INC: $25k → 17%MATAN INC: $5k → 17%DOROT INC: $2k → 17%DOROT INC: $2k → 17%DOROT INC: $2k → 17%DOROT INC: $2k → 17%DOROT INC: $2k → 17%DOROT INC: $2k → 17%METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWI: $5k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
MD
DC
AL
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 20% of Jesse and Joan Kupferberg Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Jesse and Joan Kupferberg Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 37 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
9

Total granted

$3.1M
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+31%

Still filing today

92%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureCivil RightsHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $350k · revenue +19%
  • NC
    NICHOLAS CENTER LTD
    5× · 2020–2024 · $344k · revenue +155%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE SCARSDALE LIBRARY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -84%
  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -39%
  • EI
    EVNY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -100%
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
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
2
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
3
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
4
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
5
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
6
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
7
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
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Next for Autism Inc; the most unlike its peers is New York Hall of Science. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
32/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $598,000 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENT CHARITABLE GIFT FU…Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan: $320,000 · OtherSolomon Schechter School of ManhattanSPECTRUM DESIGNS FOUNDATION LTD: $85,000 · OtherSPECTRUM DESIGNS FOUNDATION LTDRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC: $55,000 · Other+17 more: $256,098 · Other+17 moreBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $657,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITYFRIENDS OF THE SCARSDALE LIBRARY INC: $50,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE SCARSD…+2 more: $21,000 · EducationANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $300,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL …Yellowhammer Fund: $25,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $4,000 · Civil RightsNEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE: $350,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK HA…PRO PUBLICA INC: $30,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA…FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $6,500 · Arts & CultureNICHOLAS CENTER LTD: $344,000 · PhilanthropyNICHOLAS CE…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $43,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWI…+1 more: $12,000 · PhilanthropyPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $135,000 · HealthPLANNED PA…AUTISM SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $120,000 · HealthAUTISM SCI…NEXT FOR AUTISM INC: $31,000 · HealthNEXT FOR A…NYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM: $25,000 · HealthNYU LANGON…MET COUNCIL HOMECARE SERVICES: $20,200 · HealthMET COUNCI…Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $20,000 · HealthCitizens U…NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $15,000 · Health+2 more: $6,000 · HealthMATAN INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesDOROT INC: $10,800 · Human ServicesFOOTSTEPS INC: $5,400 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$1,314,098Education$728,000Civil Rights$509,000Arts & Culture$406,500Philanthropy$399,000Health$372,200Human Services$116,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $657,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE: $350,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNICHOLAS CENTER LTD: $344,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetSolomon Schechter School of Manhattan: $320,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $300,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $135,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetMATAN INC: $95,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetSPECTRUM DESIGNS FOUNDATION LTD: $85,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SCARSDALE LIBRARY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $43,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $42,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK ABORTION ACCESS FUND: $40,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetNEXT FOR AUTISM INC: $31,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHIAS INC: $31,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $30,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $26,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYellowhammer Fund: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMET COUNCIL HOMECARE SERVICES: $20,200 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EDUCATING CHILDREN WITH AUTISM INC: $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYES SHE CAN INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDOROT INC: $10,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK GILBERT & SULLIVAN PLAYERS INC: $6,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC: $5,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVNY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCARSDALE VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $450 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Jewish Communal FundOpen Society InstituteFjcVanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…National Philanthropi…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY17.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Open Society Institute · Fjc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Jesse and Joan Kupferberg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jesse and Joan Kupferberg Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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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Find your warmest path to Jesse and Joan Kupferberg Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 49 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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