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Joyce & Elliot Liskin Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Joyce & Elliot Liskin 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.

$2k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.

Health$4kArts & Culture$2kEmployment$2kFood & Nutrition$500
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$40k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL$1,750
AUDUBON ARTISTS INC$400
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ROCKPORT ART ASSOCIATION: $400 → 10%FEEDING WESTCHESTER: $500 → 9%NYU LANGONE HEALTH: $1k → 17%AUDUBON ARTISTS INC: $400 → 11%ROCKPORT ART ASSOCIATION: $400 → 10%WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL: $2k → 9%AUDUBON ARTISTS INC: $400 → 17%WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL: $500 → 9%AUDUBON ARTISTS INC: $400 → 17%WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL: $400 → 9%MEMORIAL SLOANE KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1k → 17%NYU LANGONE HEALTH: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6k · 4 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
3

Total granted

$6k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+31%

Still filing today

75%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21
Arts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • WP
    White Plains Hospital Medical Center
    3× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +62%
  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HEALTH
    2× · 2019–2020 · $2k
  • RA
    ROCKPORT ART ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $800 · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLOANE KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • FW
    FEEDING WESTCHESTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +31%
  • AA
    AUDUBON ARTISTS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $400
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
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 7 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
3/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NYU LANGONE HEALTH: $2,000 · OtherNYU LANGONE HEALTHMEMORIAL SLOANE KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOANE KETTERING CANCER CENTERFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $500 · OtherFEEDING WESTCHESTER INCAUDUBON ARTISTS INC: $400 · OtherAUDUBON ARTISTS INCWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $2,650 · HealthWhite Plains Hospital Medical CenterROCKPORT ART ASSOCIATION: $800 · Arts & CultureROCKPORT ART ASSOCIATI…AUDUBON ARTISTS INC: $800 · Arts & CultureAUDUBON ARTISTS INC
Other$3,900Health$2,650Arts & Culture$1,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $2,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCKPORT ART ASSOCIATION: $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUDUBON ARTISTS INC: $800 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joyce & Elliot Liskin Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joyce & Elliot Liskin Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Rockport Art Association: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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