· Private foundation
Joseph Family Charitable Trust
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Joseph Family Charitable Trust’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Joseph Family Charitable Trust named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $9k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAVE FARM | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $2,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSUEM OF ART | $600 |
| PARK AVENUE ARMORY | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $375 |
| LINCOLN CENTER | $100 |
| NATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH NETWORK | $100 |
| THE DOE FUND | $100 |
| Central Park Conservancy | $100 |
| NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERV | $100 |
| AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM | $70 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $50 |
| NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $50 |
| SCENIC HUDSON | $50 |
| Rondout-Esopus Land Conservancy | $50 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its 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.
23 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WFWAVE FARM INC6× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +114%
- NYNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC5× · 2017–2021 · $13k · revenue +16%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- WDWOODSTOCK DAY SCHOOL STEMone grant, 2018 · $1k
- GCGREENE COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTSone grant, 2017 · $950 · revenue +7%
- WDWOODSTOCK DAY SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +48%
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 municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…
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…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…
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.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
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…
Wmf is the leading independent organization devoted to safeguarding the world's most treasured places to enrich people's lives and build mutual understanding across cultures and communities. the organization is headquartered in new york…
The long island museum is dedicated to inspiring people of all ages with an understanding and enjoyment of american art, history and carriages as expressed through the heritage of long island and its diverse communities.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 31 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 American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds WAVE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds MINT THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds GREENE COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
- Who funds National Women's Health Network ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds RONDOUT-ESOPUS LAND CONSERVANC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joseph Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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