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Kate Spade New York Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$215k
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 FY2019–2024.

Youth Development$1.9MEmployment$1.3MCommunity Improvement$780kHealth$776kPhilanthropy$562kHuman Services$299kInternational$298kArts & Culture$262kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $1.2M
$130,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY$215,000
GRACE INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK INC$180,000
NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST$168,000
BLACK GIRLS SMILE$165,000
THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB$155,000
EXHALE TO INHALE INC$130,000
CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC$100,000
LATINAS ON THE VERGE OF EXCELLENCE - LOVE INC$90,000
FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK - PROMISE PROJECT$10,000
RISING TIDE CAPITAL$5,000
COUNSELING IN SCHOOLS$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 (FY20–24, $301k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $2k → 8%KIDS MEALS INC: $100 → 16%WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF: $500 → 9%EXHALE TO INHALE INC: $130k → 11%EXHALE TO INHALE INC: $81k → 11%TIDES CENTER: $180 → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 8%COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $500 → 20%HEART SHARE HUMAN SERVICES OF NEW YORK: $1k → 20%SLICE OUT HUNGER INC: $50 → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $100 → 17%DOROT INC: $250 → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $75k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $10k → 17%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

VT
NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
VA
MD
AR
TN
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.2M · 34 repeat orgs$885k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
157

Total granted

$5.2M
$870k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+24%

Still filing today

94%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
HealthArts & CultureCivil RightsInternationalEducationAnimalsOther

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

  • GI
    GIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $848k · revenue +71%
  • TL
    THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $665k · revenue +8%
  • BLACK GIRLS SMILE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $485k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • GI
    GIRLS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +159%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +94%
  • CT
    CRISIS TEXT LINE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -22%

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.

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City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
4
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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7
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

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

Health
8
New York Blood Center Inc

As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.

Health
9
Brooklyn Community Foundation

Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.

Philanthropy
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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11
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
12
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals International. 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 backsteadyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Domestic Violence ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportDance Arts OrganizationsPublic Library OperationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Lgbtq+ Community SupportAffordable Housing Construc…Community College Foundatio…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Cancer Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Affordable Housing Developm…Youth Sports ProgramsPregnancy Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Arts CentersJewish Community Organizati…School Parent OrganizationsSchool District FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterAddiction Recovery ServicesFood Banks and PantriesPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Foundations
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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr19%47%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr16%21%55yr+

The field is 19% 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 — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%1/178
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,582

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

169 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. 169 of the 199 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
168/169
Grantees still filing
120/169
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC — $665,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE LOWER EAST SID…GIRLS INC — $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCLATINAS ON THE VERGE OF EXCELLENCE- LOVE INC — $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentLATINAS ON THE VER…+2 more — $1,348 · Youth DevelopmentGRACE INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK INC — $455,120 · EmploymentGRACE INSTITUT…PER SCHOLAS INC — $410,160 · EmploymentPER SCHOLAS IN…GIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY — $848,400 · Civil RightsGIRLS INCORPOR…+15 more — $11,282 · Civil RightsRISING TIDE CAPITAL INC AND SUBSIDIARIES — $780,000 · Community ImprovementRISING TIDE C…+3 more — $26,481 · Community ImprovementBLACK GIRLS SMILE INC — $485,000 · HealthBLACK GIRLS S…NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH — $150,000 · HealthNATIONAL COUN…CRISIS TEXT LINE INC — $100,120 · HealthCRISIS TEXT L…+19 more — $35,465 · HealthTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST — $500,000 · Philanthropy+6 more — $14,235 · PhilanthropyGRACE INSTITUTE — $225,000 · OtherGRACE INSTITUTEBASTA INC — $85,000 · OtherInternational Rescue Committee INC — $215,100 · OtherInternational Rescue Committ…EXHALE TO INHALE INC — $211,000 · OtherEXHALE TO INHALE INCGIRLS WHO CODE INC — $85,000 · OtherSTORYVILLE CENTER FOR THE SPOKEN WORD INC — $235,000 · OtherSTORYVILLE CENTER FOR THE SP…ARIZOU — $170,000 · OtherARIZOUCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $150,000 · OtherCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTH…+135 more — $289,810 · Other+135 more
Youth Development$1,091,348Employment$865,280Civil Rights$859,682Community Improvement$806,481Health$770,585Philanthropy$514,235Other$1,665,910

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 budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY — $848,400 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetRISING TIDE CAPITAL INC AND SUBSIDIARIES — $780,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetTHE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC — $665,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST — $500,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK GIRLS SMILE INC — $485,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetGRACE INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK INC — $455,120 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC — $410,160 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLS INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSTORYVILLE CENTER FOR THE SPOKEN WORD INC — $235,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetGRACE INSTITUTE — $225,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $215,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEXHALE TO INHALE INC — $211,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetLATINAS ON THE VERGE OF EXCELLENCE- LOVE INC — $175,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetARIZOU — $170,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH — $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCRISIS TEXT LINE INC — $100,120 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC — $85,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $50,252 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $27,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING TEXAS — $25,381 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC — $10,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNSELING IN SCHOOLS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $4,575 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNO DOGS LEFT BEHIND INC — $3,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $2,305 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,235 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL — $2,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ELYSIAN CHARTER SCHOOL OF HOBOKEN — $2,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF ACADEMY OF THE CITY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLABORATORY INSTITUTE OF MERCHANDISING FASHION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $1,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $1,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTARLING PRODUCTIONS INC — $1,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute — $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $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.

The Tapestry Foundati…The Ford FoundationThe Coach Foundation …The New York Communit…American Express Foun…The Hyde and Watson F…Gannett Foundation IncRobin Hood FoundationThe Lazard Charitable…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Chubb Charitable Foun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
The Tapestry Foundation IncNY48.5× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Tapestry Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Coach Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · American Express Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Gannett Foundation Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

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 Kate Spade New York 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Newark Public Radio Inc — 51% of income from government
  • Education Northwest — 44% of income from government
  • Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Rising Tide Capital Inc and Subsidiaries — 2% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
51report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 Kate Spade New York Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kate Spade New York 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 199 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.

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