· Private foundation
Joan N and Norman Bluestone 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $300k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $210k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDENS | $1,615,000 |
| THE NY BOTANICAL GARDENS | $160,000 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MT SINA | $50,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOTH | $25,000 |
| CORNELL WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| CYCS INC | $20,000 |
| YOU CAN GO TO COLLEGE FUND | $20,000 |
| BENJAMIN CARDOZA SCHOOL OF LAW | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| STUDENT SPONSOR PARTNERS | $15,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE | $15,000 |
| brooklyn botanical garden | $10,000 |
| YESHIVA COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| PIPER THEATER PRODUCTIONS | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $80k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 10 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- QCQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +54%
- TCTHE CITY COLLEGE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +112%
- BBBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION8× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $24k
- CCCOLUMBIA CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ENVIRone grant, 2023 · $15k
- FAFACULTY ADVISORY COUNCILone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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.
(see schedule o)
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.
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
An educational foundation supporting students and programs of the city college of new york, city university of new york.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The foundation shall be formed to support and advance the educational and research activities of the cuny graduate school of public health and health policy by raising funds and making contributions and grants to the graduate school of…
To develop and cultivate educational, cultural, social, and recreational activities among students of the city college of the city university of new york.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 46 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC ↗
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- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds International Preschools ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds FROST VALLEY YMCA ↗
- Who funds SWIM STRONG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds GOWANUS CANAL CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEY POND ENVIRONMENTAL CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joan N and Norman Bluestone Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joan N and Norman Bluestone Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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