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Louis Greenspan Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$190k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$820kArts & Culture$230kHuman Services$108kPhilanthropy$105kReligion$70kPublic Benefit$48kHealth$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARIST COLLEGE$75,000
DUTCHESS COMMUN COLLEGE FOUNDATION$50,000
CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA$20,000
BARDAVON THEATER$20,000
REHER CENTER$15,000
UNITED WAY$10,000
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 (FY21–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GREYSTONE PROGRAMS INC: $10k → 9%GREYSTONE PROGRAMS INC: $10k → 9%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 13 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$1.4M
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+269%

Still filing today

38%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MU
    MARIST UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $415k · revenue +52%
  • DC
    DUTCHESS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +172%
  • CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $145k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +269%
  • BA
    BARRETT ART CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
5/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARIST UNIVERSITY: $415,000 · EducationMARIST UNIVERSITYDUTCHESS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $240,000 · EducationDUTCHESS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $145,000 · EducationCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICABARDAVON THEATER: $160,000 · OtherBARDAVON THEATERREHER CENTER: $85,000 · OtherREHER CENTERTHE FOUNDATION FOR VASSAR BROTHERS: $70,000 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION FOR VASSAR BROTHERSUNITED WAY: $65,000 · OtherUNITED WAYMILTON TRAIN STATION FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · OtherMILTON TRAIN STATION FOUNDATION INCYMCA OF KINGSTON: $61,800 · OtherYMCA OF KINGSTONELEANOR ROOSEVELT CENTER: $47,500 · OtherELEANOR ROOSEVELT CENTER+4 more: $47,500 · Other+4 moreJewish Federation of Ulster County Inc: $40,000 · PhilanthropyGREYSTONE PROGRAMS INC: $20,000 · Human Services
Education$800,000Other$601,800Philanthropy$40,000Human Services$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY: $415,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDUTCHESS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $240,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $145,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of Ulster County Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetGREYSTONE PROGRAMS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 MARIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DUTCHESS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Federation of Ulster County Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREYSTONE PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Louis Greenspan Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis Greenspan Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Louis Greenspan Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Louis Greenspan Charitable Trust 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 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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