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Kasowitz Family 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.

$263k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$476kArts & Culture$84kHuman Services$31kPhilanthropy$25kRecreation & Sports$22kEnvironment$18kCommunity Improvement$18kYouth Development$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $97k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$1,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCONN FOUNDATION$150,000
JAZZ FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$25,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY$25,000
PURE EARTH 2024 Benefit$17,250
WORLD CONNECT$15,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$15,000
SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN$5,000
MUSICCARES$5,000
MOMA$1,500
THE LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$1,000
UNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY$1,000
SHELTER ISLAND FIRE DEPT$500
Shelter Island Educational Fund$500
PURE EARTH FORCE OF NATURE$450
SHELTER ISLAND TOWN PBA$250
02The need
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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, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EAST END HOSPICE: $100 → 7%SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $10k → 17%SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $10k → 17%Senior Citizens Foundation of Shelter Island: $200 → 7%SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $5k → 17%Senior Citizens Foundation of Shelter Island: $200 → 7%SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
TN
NC
GA
TX
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$529k · 20 repeat orgs$139k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
21

Total granted

$529k
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+33%

Still filing today

75%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalOther
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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $183k · revenue +57%
  • EU
    Emory University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +32%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • JM
    JOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +68%
  • UD
    UC DAVIS
    one grant, 2022 · $11k
  • HC
    HARVARD COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $11k
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.

1
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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2
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Peace Islands Institute New York Inc
Religion
5
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
New York University

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.

Education
10
Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health
11
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
12
Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter Island Friends of Music Inc; the most unlike its peers is Us Friends of Hastings Piano. 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

28 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. 28 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
23/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $182,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INCEmory University: $100,000 · EducationEmory UniversityTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $37,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW Y…COLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $26,000 · EducationCOLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL+3 more: $4,950 · EducationTHE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS: $75,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARISPURE EARTH BLACKSMITH INSTITUTE INC: $65,600 · OtherPURE EARTH BLACKSMITH INSTITUTE INCPURE EARTH 2024 Benefit: $17,250 · OtherPURE EARTH 2024 BenefitBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $12,500 · OtherUC DAVIS: $11,000 · OtherHARVARD COLLEGE: $11,000 · Other+28 more: $64,678 · Other+28 moreSPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $30,000 · Human Services+2 more: $500 · Human ServicesJazz Foundation of America Inc: $25,000 · PhilanthropyWORLD CONNECT INC: $17,500 · InternationalJOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT INC: $14,500 · Youth DevelopmentUS FRIENDS OF HASTINGS PIANO: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$350,950Other$257,028Human Services$30,500Philanthropy$25,000International$17,500Youth Development$14,500Arts & Culture$10,000

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 budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $182,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $37,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJazz Foundation of America Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CONNECT INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT INC: $14,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUS FRIENDS OF HASTINGS PIANO: $10,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetLITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC: $6,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHARLES ARMSTRONG SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER ISLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSHELTER ISLAND AMBULANCE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFordham University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER ISLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,650 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSHELTER ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY SOCIETY: $1,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR CTZNS FOUNDTN OF SHLTR ISL: $400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSHELTER ISLAND HISTORY MUSEUM: $400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHELTER ISLAND FRIENDS OF MUSIC INC: $400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTAYLOR'S ISLAND FOUNDATION: $400 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEASTERN LONG ISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEast End Hospice Inc: $100 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.

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 Goldman Sachs Cha…The Assouline-Lichten…Mutual of America Fou…The New York Communit…Equitable Foundation …The Bessemer Giving F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY21.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Assouline-Lichten Foundation Inc · Mutual of America Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Equitable Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

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 Kasowitz Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kasowitz Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 48 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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