How much does Joseph & Sophia Abeles Foundation give?

Joseph & Sophia Abeles Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $1,462,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 50 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Joseph & Sophia Abeles Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Education (12%), Philanthropy (11%).

Who are Joseph & Sophia Abeles Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Wildlife Conservation Society ($280k), New York City Ballet Inc ($255k), New York Botanical Garden ($255k).

Does Joseph & Sophia Abeles Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Joseph & Sophia Abeles Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph & Sophia Abeles Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation, The New York Community Trust, St Faith's House Foundation.

Where is Joseph & Sophia Abeles Foundation based?

Joseph & Sophia Abeles Foundation is based in NY.

Joseph & Sophia Abeles Foundation

Joseph & Sophia Abeles Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Joseph & Sophia Abeles 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.

$1.5M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$120k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.2MEducation$820kPhilanthropy$705kInternational$563kHealth$495kFood & Nutrition$408kEnvironment$325kHuman Services$295kOther$0

02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $15k
$10k–50k35 grants · $772k
$50k–250k10 grants · $675k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WCC FOUNDATION	$120,000
FEEDING WESTCHESTER	$80,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY	$75,000
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC	$75,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC	$70,000
WNET	$55,000
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN	$50,000
FEEDING AMERICA	$50,000
WESTHAB INC	$50,000
NEW YORK CITY BALLET	$50,000
WNYC RADIO	$45,000
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY	$40,000
JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER	$40,000
WHITE PLAINS HOSP CENTER	$40,000
ARTSWESTCHESTER	$35,000

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.6M · 52 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

52 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.6M

$35k

Still filing today

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureInternationalHealthEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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

WC
Wildlife Conservation Society
5× · 2020–2024 · $280k · revenue +57%
NY
NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $255k · revenue +52%
NY
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
5× · 2020–2024 · $255k · revenue +42%

Funded once

CI
CLUSTER INC
one grant, 2020 · $25k
PA
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
one grant, 2020 · $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.

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.

Museum of the City of New York

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…

Arts & Culture

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

New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture

The Neue Galerie New York

Arts & Culture

New York Historical Society

The founding mission of the new-york historical society ("the new york historical "tnyh") is to collect, preserve, and interpret, for the broadest possible public, material relevant to the history of the united states in general and of new…

Arts & Culture

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech

Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education

Wmht Educational Telecommunications Inc

Wmht enriches communities and elevates diverse perspectives by providing content, connection, and conversation that advance education, culture, and civic engagement.

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Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education

The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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

36 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. 36 of the 54 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/36

Grantees still filing

31/36

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,098,000Arts & Culture$1,880,000International$355,000Health$340,000Environment$325,000Education$310,000Animals$280,000

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.

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.

The Thomas and Agnes Carvel FoundationNY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation · The New York Community Trust · St Faith's House Foundation · Pilzer Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Lorraine O'Brien Foundation Inc · Pcsb Community Foundation · Peckham Family Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Joseph & Sophia Abeles Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph & Sophia Abeles Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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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)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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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