· Private foundation
John & Barbara Samuelson 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k7 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC | $35,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN OPERA | $32,500 |
| WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE | $32,000 |
| JAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSN | $25,000 |
| HOLE IN THE WALL GANG CAMP | $15,000 |
| TEMPLE SHAARAY TEFILA | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY | $7,740 |
| CLAREMONT INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN | $3,000 |
| THE JEWISH MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| CHABAD AT CALTECH | $1,800 |
| FRAXA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $600 |
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 (FY20–23, $52k) 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.
20 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WCWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC4× · 2020–2023 · $113k · revenue +81%
- TPTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC3× · 2020–2023 · $73k · revenue +5%
- PRPacific Research Institute For Public Policy4× · 2020–2023 · $65k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- LELOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +61%
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +62%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $500
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 24 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.
- Who funds WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy ↗
- Who funds JAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds AMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRAXA Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John & Barbara Samuelson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John & Barbara Samuelson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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