· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
- $250k+1 grant · $376k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| SHEILA E JOHNSON FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GIVERGY CHARITY | $5,000 |
| BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK | $5,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER | $5,000 |
| MIDDLEBURG FILM FESTIVAL | $3,900 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TNThe New School8× · 2017–2024 · $976k · revenue +24%
- LSLARCHMONT SCHOOLS8× · 2017–2024 · $127k · revenue +74%
- NYNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC2× · 2019–2020 · $105k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $53k · revenue +69%
- CFCFDA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +140%
- KBKips Bay Boys & Girls Clubgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +54%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
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,…
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.
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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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
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 Kay Unger 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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.