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Kay Unger Family Foundation

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.

$580k
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$376k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.3MEducation$1.2MArts & Culture$1.1MHuman Services$52kPhilanthropy$39kEmployment$22kYouth Development$18kReligion$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
  • $250k+1 grant · $376k
$2,143
Median grant
7
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION$375,747
THE NEW SCHOOL$55,700
ASOCIACION LATINA DE ASISTENCIA Y PREVENCION DE CANCER$30,000
LARCHMONT CHARTER SCHOOL$18,376
MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA$11,000
AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION$10,204
THE NEW SHUL$7,510
CFDA$7,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$6,250
THE NEW YORK CITY BALLET$6,000
GIVERGY CHARITY$5,000
SHEILA E JOHNSON FOUNDATION$5,000
CITY OF HOPE COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER$5,000
BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK$5,000
MIDDLEBURG FILM FESTIVAL$3,900
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RETAILERS UNITED: $10k → 11%NEW SCHOOL: $361k → 17%KIPS BAY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $13k → 28%ENTERPRISING WOMEN: $20k → 8%PARSON MAKING CENTER FUND: $300k → 17%ENTERPRISING WOMEN: $20k → 8%PARSON MAKING CENTER FUND: $275k → 17%NATIONAL TRUST GLASS HOUSE: $16k → 9%ALAS-WINGS LATINA ASSOCIATION FOR BREAST CANCER: $30k → 14%PARSON MAKING CENTER FUND: $175k → 17%NATIONAL TRUST GLASS HOUSE: $15k → 9%ASOCIACION LATINA DE ASISTENCIA Y PREVENCION DE CANCER: $30k → 14%NEW SCHOOL: $173k → 17%ALAS-WINGS LATINA ASSOCIATION FOR BREAST CANCER: $25k → 14%LARCHMONT CHARTER SCHOOL: $21k → 14%PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL: $103k → 17%ALAS-WINGS LATINA ASSOCIATION FOR BREAST CANCER: $25k → 14%LARCHMONT CHARTER SCHOOL: $18k → 14%NEW SCHOOL: $100k → 17%ALAS-WINGS LATINA ASSOCIATION FOR BREAST CANCER: $25k → 14%LARCHMONT CHARTER SCHOOL: $18k → 14%NEW SCHOOL: $75k → 17%ALAS-WINGS LATINA ASSOCIATION FOR BREAST CANCER: $25k → 14%LARCHMONT CHARTER SCHOOL: $17k → 14%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $15k → 17%ALAS-WINGS LATINA ASSOCIATION FOR BREAST CANCER: $25k → 14%LARCHMONT CHARTER SCHOOL: $16k → 14%NEW SCHOOL: $70k → 17%LARCHMONT CHARTER SCHOOL: $15k → 14%URBAN ZEN: $13k → 17%LARCHMONT CHARTER SCHOOL: $11k → 14%THE NEW SCHOOL: $56k → 17%PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL: $30k → 17%SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL BROOKLYN: $16k → 20%LARCHMONT CHARTER SCHOOL: $10k → 14%SHELTERING ARMS: $10k → 17%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $12k → 17%SHELTERING ARMS: $10k → 17%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $10k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $53k → 17%NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $435k → 17%NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $376k → 17%NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $114k → 17%NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%THE NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $13k → 17%CARE AND WEAR II INC: $10k → 17%CFDA FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%THE NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY: $103k → 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

IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
VA
DE
NC
DC
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 46 repeat orgs$279k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
60

Total granted

$3.6M
$179k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+35%

Still filing today

48%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TN
    The New School
    8× · 2017–2024 · $976k · revenue +24%
  • LS
    LARCHMONT SCHOOLS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $127k · revenue +74%
  • NY
    NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $105k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $53k · revenue +69%
  • CF
    CFDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +140%
  • KB
    Kips Bay Boys & Girls Clubgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +118%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
New York Botanical Garden

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…

Environment
3
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
4
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
5
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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6
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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7
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
8
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
11
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
12
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ripley Inc. 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

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 136 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/69
Grantees still filing
38/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARSON MAKING CENTER FUND: $750,000 · OtherPARSON MAKING CENTER FUNDALAS-WINGS LATINA ASSOCIATION FOR BREAST CANCER: $155,000 · OtherALAS-WINGS LATINA ASSOCIATION FOR BREAST …NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $104,870 · OtherNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC+89 more: $412,434 · Other+89 moreThe New School: $975,967 · EducationThe New SchoolLARCHMONT SCHOOLS: $126,951 · EducationLARCHMONT SCHOOLS+9 more: $39,405 · EducationNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $1,044,465 · HealthNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION I…+6 more: $38,967 · HealthMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $53,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $39,100 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $15,280 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $10,900 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $8,115 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $8,831 · Arts & CultureCFDA FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND: $2,500 · PhilanthropyGOFUNDMEORG: $1,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $897 · PhilanthropyRETAILERS UNITED: $17,100 · EmploymentSUMMER SEARCH: $2,076 · EmploymentKips Bay Boys & Girls Club: $12,540 · Youth DevelopmentJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES: $663 · Youth Development+1 more: $250 · Youth Development
Other$1,422,304Education$1,142,323Health$1,083,432Arts & Culture$135,226Philanthropy$24,397Employment$19,176Youth Development$13,453

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 budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $1,044,465 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetThe New School: $975,967 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLARCHMONT SCHOOLS: $126,951 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $104,870 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $53,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $39,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERING ARMS CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $30,149 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASOCIACION LATINA DE ASISTENCIA Y PREVENCION DEL CANCER DE MAMA: $30,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetCFDA FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRETAILERS UNITED: $17,100 over 2y, 12% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $15,280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKips Bay Boys & Girls Club: $12,540 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $10,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRIVENDELL SCHOOL: $10,352 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $10,204 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR STUDENT COMMUNICATIONINC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $8,115 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANA INC: $7,632 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC: $5,150 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEILA C JOHNSON FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMIDDLEBURG FILM FESTIVAL: $3,900 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBROOKLYN KINDERGARTEN SOCIETY: $3,640 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNRF FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDDX3X FOUNDATION: $2,442 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSING WORKS INC: $2,399 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $2,076 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Committee of 200: $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S FORUM OF NEW YORK INC: $1,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $1,055 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART CREATES US INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL LIGHTHOUSE RESCUE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetURBANGLASS NEW YORK CONTEMPORARY GLASS CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Theatre Barn Incorporated: $1,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES: $663 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM: $650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $630 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $613 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS 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.

  • Who funds NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The New School ↗
  • Who funds LARCHMONT SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds SHELTERING ARMS CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds ASOCIACION LATINA DE ASISTENCIA Y PREVENCION DEL CANCER DE MAMA ↗
  • Who funds CFDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RETAILERS UNITED ↗
  • Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
  • Who funds Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds RIVENDELL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT COMMUNICATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN ↗

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 Hyde and Watson F…Jewish Communal FundThe Ford FoundationNational Philanthropi…May and Samuel Rudin …Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Express Foun…The Ayco Charitable F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Tides FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY18.1× affinity8 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 Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ford Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Express Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Tides Foundation · American Endowment 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 Kay Unger Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kay Unger Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • EcoHealth Alliance Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 136 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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