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Lee and Marvin Traub Charitable Fund

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.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Arts & Culture$50kHealth$16kEducation$13kPublic Benefit$8kPhilanthropy$6kCivil Rights$3kCrime & Legal$3kEnvironment$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$120k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN SUPPORT$5,000
PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS$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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Global Smile Foundation: $5k → 7%Smith College: $250 → 12%AOC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts: $2k → 9%RIOULT Dance NY: $7k → 13%Ice Theatre of New York: $2k → 17%Jerome Shestack Justice Fellowship: $3k → 14%Southern Poverty Law Center: $400 → 18%NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVA: $2k → 9%Greenwich Emergency Medical Service Inc: $203 → 9%City Academy: $3k → 8%Global Smile Foundation: $5k → 7%AOC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%ACADEMY OF THE CITY: $3k → 13%Ice Theatre of New York: $500 → 17%Global Smile Foundation: $5k → 7%Martha Graham School of Contemporar: $2k → 17%Lawyers Committee: $3k → 14%Joyce Theater Foundation: $300 → 17%PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS: $5k → 14%Network For Good: $515 → 14%Westport Writers Workshop I Inc: $375 → 9%Ice Theatre of New York: $260 → 17%The Greenwich United Way: $510 → 9%Central Park Conservancy: $500 → 17%HSS NEUROLOGY: $750 → 17%USA for UNHCR: $228 → 17%USA for UNHCR: $209 → 17%Lincoln Center Development Project Inc: $3k → 17%Metropolitan Museum of Art: $600 → 17%Lincoln Center Development Project Inc: $3k → 17%Metropolitan Museum of Art: $600 → 17%Metropolitan Museum of Art: $600 → 17%New York City Center: $3k → 17%New York City Center: $3k → 17%The Museum of Modern Art: $600 → 17%THIRTEEN: $500 → 17%Center for Curatorial Leadership: $3k → 17%Center for Curatorial Leadership: $3k → 17%Center for Curatorial Leadership: $3k → 17%PEN AMERICA: $10k → 17%Jonas Philanthropies Inc: $3k → 17%Jonas Philanthropies Inc: $1k → 17%New York Public Radio: $500 → 17%New 42nd Street: $6k → 17%New 42nd Street: $512 → 17%PENTACLE: $2k → 17%ACLU: $200 → 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

NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
VA
TN
DC
AL
TX

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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$57k · 16 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
34

Total granted

$57k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+33%

Still filing today

69%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • GS
    GLOBAL SMILE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +154%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $8k · revenue +125%
  • TN
    THE NEW 42ND STREET INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $7k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • PA
    PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -27%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $7k
  • JS
    Jerome Shestack Justice Fellowship
    one grant, 2020 · $3k

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
7
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
8
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lincoln Center Development Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Art of the Early Keyboard 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 backsteadyGovernment Accountability R…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Land Conservation Organizat…Community Arts OrganizationsProfessional Ballet Compani…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Cancer Support OrganizationsYouth Sports Booster Organi…Volunteer Fire DepartmentsUnited Way FederationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Classical Music EnsemblesIndependent K-8 SchoolsLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Christian Missionary Organi…
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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%11%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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,719

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

39 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. 39 of the 55 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
32/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN CENTER INCCENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP INCTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC — $6,512 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW 42ND STREET INCLINCOLN CENTER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC — $6,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INCNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY CENTER INCTHE MARTHA GRAHAM SCHOOL OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureDANCE WORKS INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $1,800 · Arts & CultureCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc — $1,500 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $1,801 · Arts & CultureIndividual grant recipient — $6,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAOC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherAOC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN SUPPORT — $5,000 · OtherASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN SUPPORTICE THEATRE OF NEW YORK — $2,760 · OtherICE THEATRE OF NEW YORKJerome Shestack Justice Fellowship — $2,500 · OtherJerome Shestack Justice FellowshipLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law — $2,500 · OtherLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Un…ACADEMY OF THE CITY — $2,500 · OtherACADEMY OF THE CITYFRIENDS OF ACADEMY OF CITY CHARTER SCHOO — $2,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF ACADEMY OF CITY CHARTER SCH…JustGiving — $1,675 · Other+19 more — $6,586 · Other+19 moreGLOBAL SMILE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · InternationalGLOBAL SMILE FO…The Pew Charitable Trusts — $5,000 · PhilanthropyJonas Philanthropies Inc — $3,500 · PhilanthropyCity Academy — $2,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $250 · EducationNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $1,500 · EnvironmentTHE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC — $100 · Environment+1 more — $35 · EnvironmentNATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE — $1,000 · Human ServicesAARP FOUNDATION — $112 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$44,113Other$37,521International$15,000Philanthropy$8,500Education$3,250Environment$1,635Human Services$1,112

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 budgetGLOBAL SMILE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC — $6,512 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pew Charitable Trusts — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJonas Philanthropies Inc — $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetICE THEATRE OF NEW YORK — $2,760 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCity Academy — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARTHA GRAHAM SCHOOL OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDANCE WORKS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC — $510 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC — $303 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $135 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION — $112 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society — $91 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC — $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5 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.

Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Lee and Marvin Traub Charitable Fund 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 · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc — 9% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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
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.

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 55 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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