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Joseph C & Esther Foster 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL | $30,000 |
| CULTURE FOR ONE | $30,000 |
| THINK NEW MEXICO | $10,000 |
| MOVE NYC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CSU FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ALBUQUERQUE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR NYC | $9,000 |
| THE DOOR | $5,000 |
| DOE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SHAKE-A-LEG MIAMI | $5,000 |
| CITY MEALS ON WHEELS | $4,000 |
| CANCER FOUNDATION FOR NM | $3,000 |
| WNYC RADIO | $3,000 |
| JEWISH CEMETERY ASSOC OF MASS | $2,500 |
| NEW MEXICO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
40 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- CFCULTURE FOR ONE7× · 2018–2024 · $211k · revenue +89%
- CSCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $155k · revenue +25%
- TNTHINK NEW MEXICO7× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +302%
Funded once
- FAFLINT ANIMAL CANCER CENTERone grant, 2018 · $10k
- L5LOCKER 505 STUDENTS CLOTHING BANKone grant, 2018 · $5k
- BSBedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporationone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -16%
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.
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…
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
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."
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…
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
Perform, promote and sustain classical ballet.
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 mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
For more than a century, diller-quaile has offered an environment where music can flourish in all its aspects, enriching the lives of students of all ages and cultural backgrounds. the belief that music is a fundamental part of human life…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The National Jazz Museum in Harlem and the most unlike its peers is American College of the Building Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 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. 45 of the 69 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 CULTURE FOR ONE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THINK NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds SHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds MOVE(NYC) FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Bosque School ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION FOR NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds ESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds New Mexico Childrens Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation ↗
- Who funds JAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING ↗
- Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE GARDEN CENTER INC DBA BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Enterprise Bank & Trust Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Van Essen Family Foundation · Lineberry Foundation · Feinberg Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The New York Community Trust
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 Joseph C & Esther Foster 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.
- Jazz House Kids Inc — 29% of income from government
- Puppet Showplace Inc — 4% of income from government
- Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc — 0% of income from government
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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