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Linda Novak Memorial Foundation at a glance

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Linda Novak Memorial Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$70kArts & Culture$32kRecreation & Sports$16kHealth$10kFood & Nutrition$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kCommunity Improvement$5kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$229k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND$5,000
NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS TEAM FOR KIDS$5,000
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$3,000
BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART$3,000
HUDSON RIVER MUSEUM$1,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$1,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$1,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE LEAD THE WAY FUND INC: $1k → 6%ST JOHN OF GOD COMMUNITY SERVICE: $1k → 8%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

VT
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
GA
FL
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$131k · 20 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
19

Total granted

$131k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+17%

Still filing today

65%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PA
    President and Fellows of Middlebury College
    4× · 2017–2020 · $16k · revenue +47%
  • BI
    BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART
    8× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +75%
  • TA
    TRUMBULL ART GALLERY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $9k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • TL
    The Leadership Studio Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • TB
    THE BOTTOM LINE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -14%
  • CF
    Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +12%
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
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
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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5
Manhattanville University

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

Education
6
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

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

Health
11
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
12
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bottom Line Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Leadership Studio 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

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HASTINGS YELLOW JACKETS BOOSTER: $10,500 · OtherHASTINGS YELLOW JACKETS BOOSTERVASSAR COLLEGE: $8,000 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGEFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $6,000 · OtherFEEDING WESTCHESTER INCNEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS TEAM FOR KIDS: $5,000 · OtherNEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS TEAM FOR KIDSRIVER ARTS: $4,000 · OtherRIVER ARTSAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $3,000 · OtherHASTINGS ON HUDSON PTSA: $3,000 · OtherHASTINGS-ON-HUDSON AFFORDABLE: $3,000 · Other+18 more: $19,000 · Other+18 moreTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND: $24,000 · EducationTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUNDPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $16,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebu…LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $8,000 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITY+1 more: $1,000 · EducationBUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBUTLER INSTITUTE OF…TRUMBULL ART GALLERY: $9,000 · Arts & CultureTRUMBULL ART GALLER…ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureALVIN AILEY DANCE F…HUDSON RIVER MUSEUM OF WESTCHESTER: $1,000 · Arts & CultureHASTINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · PhilanthropyPROJECT SHARE INC: $1,500 · PhilanthropyThe Leadership Studio Inc: $5,000 · Community ImprovementTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $2,500 · Community ImprovementPLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC: $2,500 · HealthCUREPSP INC: $1,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 · International
Other$61,500Education$49,000Arts & Culture$28,000Philanthropy$10,500Community Improvement$7,500Health$4,000International$3,000

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 budgetTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND: $24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART: $15,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTRUMBULL ART GALLERY: $9,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetHASTINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT SHARE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLEAD THE WAY FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Thursday Club: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON RIVER MUSEUM OF WESTCHESTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY TO FAMILY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetP-CoCINC PARENTING CHILDREN OF COLOR: $1,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCUREPSP INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 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.

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 Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY11.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Linda Novak Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Linda Novak Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 43 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home