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Katcher Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$260k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$1.5MPhilanthropy$736kEducation$262kInternational$139kHealth$27kSocial Science$22kReligion$18kCivil Rights$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $151k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$634k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW ISRAEL FUND$60,000
NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC$30,000
NPR FOUNDATION$25,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO$25,000
BAPTIST HEALTH SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC$15,000
THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$15,000
AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM$11,043
SEVEN ARROWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$10,000
THE NEST SCHOOL$10,000
YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY$10,000
THE ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY$7,500
NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY$6,000
YALE UNIVERSITY - FRIENDS OF AMERICAN ART AT YALE$6,000
HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$5,000
KCRW FOUNDATION INC$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
WA
MN
IL
NY
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
AZ
DC
AL
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 40 repeat orgs$152k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
33

Total granted

$1.5M
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+34%

Still filing today

83%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsHealthInternationalEnvironmentOther

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

  • NW
    NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $461k · revenue +12%
  • NF
    NPR FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +5%
  • JM
    JORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $113k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • BB
    Because Black is Still Beautiful
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • FI
    FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +91%
  • RI
    REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -30%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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,…

Arts & Culture
6
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
7
Manhattan School of Music

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…

Arts & Culture
8
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
9
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Arts & Culture
10
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
11
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
12
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Prologue Society Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community FederationsGovernment Accountability R…Independent K-8 SchoolsCommunity Health CentersLand Conservation Organizat…Community Arts OrganizationsDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Christian Missionary Organi…Community FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Professional Ballet Compani…Classical Music EnsemblesUnited Way Federations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 46 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%0%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr15%19%20–35yr9%32%35–55yr12%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr16%1%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr15%10%20–35yr9%43%35–55yr12%46%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/69
the rest of the field
17%
17,089/102,975

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.

04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 90 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
50/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC — $460,799 · EducationNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INCYale University — $235,000 · EducationYale UniversityTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $90,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY+8 more — $38,250 · EducationUNITED WAY MIAMI INC — $721,250 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY MIAMI INC+3 more — $13,000 · PhilanthropyNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $140,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIOJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC — $113,000 · Arts & CultureJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM …MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC — $111,600 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $76,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF AR…MIAMI CITY BALLET INC — $76,000 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CITY BALLET INCAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM — $25,543 · Arts & Culture+15 more — $69,530 · Arts & Culture+15 moreEARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $142,500 · OtherEARLY CHILDHOOD …NPR FOUNDATION — $125,000 · OtherNPR FOUNDATIONBecause Black is Still Beautiful — $20,000 · OtherREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $15,000 · OtherFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC — $15,000 · Other+40 more — $90,833 · Other+40 moreNEW ISRAEL FUND — $120,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $10,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $6,000 · International+1 more — $1,500 · InternationalBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc — $15,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC — $8,500 · HealthSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC — $6,100 · HealthSOCIETY FOR PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY — $3,000 · HealthTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $22,000 · Social Science
Education$824,049Philanthropy$734,250Arts & Culture$612,173Other$408,333International$137,500Health$32,600Social Science$22,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY MIAMI INC — $721,250 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC — $460,799 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetYale University — $235,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $140,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNPR FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC — $113,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC — $111,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $76,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC — $76,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM — $25,543 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetConcert Artists Guild Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER — $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFENIMORE ART MUSEUM — $10,060 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEVEN ARROWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEST SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNew York Historical Society — $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC — $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAHLER FOUNDATION — $8,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSTORYCORPS INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC — $6,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKCRW FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT INC DBA MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC — $1,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $1,070 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Tides FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Raymond James Charita…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY11.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Tides Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Katcher Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc — 4% of income from government
  • New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Katcher Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Katcher Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines