· Private foundation
Joan N and Norman Bluestone Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 95% of JOAN N AND NORMAN BLUESTONE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $210k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDENS | $1,625,000 |
| THE NY BOTANICAL GARDENS | $160,000 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MT SINA | $50,000 |
| BENJAMIN CARDOZA SCHOOL OF LAW | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES INC | $20,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE | $15,000 |
| ST JOHNS UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| PIPER THEATER PRODUCTIONS | $10,000 |
| YESHIVA COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| SWIM STRONG FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE CHILD CENTER OF NY | $10,000 |
| THE INTERNATIONAL PRESCHOOL | $10,000 |
| GOWANUS CANAL CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $60k) 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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- QCQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +54%
- TCTHE CITY COLLEGE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +112%
- BBBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION7× · 2017–2024 · $61k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $24k
- CCCOLUMBIA CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ENVIRone grant, 2023 · $15k
- PCPOMONOK COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
(see schedule o)
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
The foundation supports the law school in its mission to increase access to legal education to those from groups underrepresented in the profession and to prepare its graduates for public interest and public service practice.
An educational foundation supporting students and programs of the city college of new york, city university of new york.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of city university construction fund ("cucf") is to manage the resources necessary for the design and construction of space required to support the educational mandate of the city university of new york.
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Queens College Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Swim Strong Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 36 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 QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CITY COLLEGE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD CENTER OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FROST VALLEY YMCA ↗
- Who funds SWIM STRONG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Preschools ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds GOWANUS CANAL CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ALLEY POND ENVIRONMENTAL CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
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 Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Joan N and Norman Bluestone 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.
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