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Marietta and Andrew Romay Foundation Inc

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.

$621k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

International$1.4MHuman Services$684kCommunity Improvement$505kArts & Culture$305kPublic Benefit$273kCivil Rights$247kReligion$176kEducation$143kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $149k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $452k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$200,000
J STREET$91,500
FOOTSTEPS$60,000
JEWISH CURRENTS$50,000
ARBOR BROTHERS$50,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
EXTEND$25,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND$20,000
972 MAGAZINE - NEW ISRAEL FUND$15,000
NEXUS - NEW ISRAEL FUND$15,000
YAFFED$15,000
HAND IN HAND$14,000
GISHA - NEW ISRAEL FUND$10,000
RUTH'S REFUGE$10,000
HAVE YOU SEEN THE HORIZON - MIDDLE EAST PEACE NETWORK$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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TIDES CENTER: $10k → 10%RUTH'S REFUGE: $15k → 20%RUTH'S REFUGE: $10k → 20%RUTH'S REFUGE: $10k → 20%RUTH'S REFUGE: $10k → 20%RUTH'S REFUGE: $10k → 20%THE RETREAT: $10k → 17%THE RETREAT: $10k → 17%THE RETREAT: $5k → 17%THE RETREAT: $5k → 17%THE RETREAT: $5k → 17%THE RETREAT: $5k → 17%THE RETREAT: $3k → 17%THE RETREAT: $1k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $3k → 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

MI
NY
MA
OR
NJ
RI
CA
DC
MS

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.1M · 41 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

41 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
25

Total granted

$5.1M
$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+30%

Still filing today

51%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
InternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther

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

  • JS
    J STREET
    9× · 2017–2025 · $728k · revenue +26%
  • FI
    FOOTSTEPS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $583k · revenue +61%
  • ARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING
    9× · 2017–2025 · $505k · revenue +187%

Funded once

  • NC
    NY COMMUNITY TRUST
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • IU
    INSPIRE US
    one grant, 2018 · $10k

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 Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

2
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice Action Inc

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action (JFREJ Action or JFREJ) is the home for Jewish New Yorkers organizing with our neighbors and allies to transform New York from a playground for the wealthy few into a real democracy for all of us.…

3
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
4
Israel 21c

Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.

Education
5
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
6
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
7
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

8
The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion
9
Jews of Color Initiative

The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…

Civil Rights
10
Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies Inc

The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…

Human Services
11
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…

Community Improvement
12
Israel Venture Network

The Organization is at the forefront of the social business arena for fourth sector in Israel, nurturing and growing this emerging sector and generating sustainable social impact by providing Israel's social businesses with knowledge,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network and the most unlike its peers is Inspire Us. 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 A…Arts and Culture FoundationsInternational Development a…Asian Cultural & Community …Nyc Education InstitutionsJewish Religious Education …
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 26 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%13%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr21%31%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr11%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%7%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%54%10–20yr21%16%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr11%2%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/37
the rest of the field
11%
6,221/55,468

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

37 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 69 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
30/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $1,748,460 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+38 more — $786,300 · Other+38 moreJ STREET — $727,900 · InternationalJ STREETNEW ISRAEL FUND — $387,900 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUNDHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA — $110,500 · InternationalHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRI…+7 more — $46,600 · InternationalFOOTSTEPS INC — $582,500 · Human ServicesFOOTSTEPS INCRUTH'S REFUGE INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesRUTH'S REFUGE…Retreat Inc — $43,500 · Human ServicesRetreat Inc+2 more — $12,500 · Human ServicesARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING — $505,000 · PhilanthropyARBOR BROTH…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $52,500 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL …+1 more — $1,200 · PhilanthropyASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF JEWISH SECULARISM INC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureASSOCIATI…EXTEND — $175,000 · Arts & CultureEXTENDANNE FRANK CENTER USA INC — $16,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $23,500 · Arts & CultureYAFFED INC — $140,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $2,500 · EducationNEW YORK JEWISH AGENDA INC — $15,000 · Civil RightsJEWS FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE — $6,800 · Civil Rights
Other$2,534,760International$1,272,900Human Services$693,500Philanthropy$558,700Arts & Culture$464,500Education$147,500Civil Rights$21,800

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 budgetJ STREET — $727,900 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC — $582,500 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING — $505,000 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $387,900 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF JEWISH SECULARISM INC — $250,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetEXTEND — $175,000 over 9y, 7.6% of budgetYAFFED INC — $140,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA — $110,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetRUTH'S REFUGE INC — $55,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $52,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRetreat Inc — $43,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC — $36,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetANNE FRANK CENTER USA INC — $16,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetNEW YORK JEWISH AGENDA INC — $15,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCEC STUYVESANT COVE INC — $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetT'RUAH — $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINSPIRE US — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNEW JEWISH NARRATIVE INC — $8,600 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJust Vision Inc — $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC — $8,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT INC — $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEWS FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE — $6,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetForeign Policy For America — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNew Urban Arts — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHIAS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTikkun Olam Productions Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBROOKLYN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPENHOUSENEWYORK INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC — $1,000 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.

  • Who funds J STREET
  • Who funds FOOTSTEPS INC
  • Who funds ARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING
  • Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF JEWISH SECULARISM INC
  • Who funds EXTEND
  • Who funds YAFFED INC
  • Who funds HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA
  • Who funds RUTH'S REFUGE INC
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC
  • Who funds Retreat Inc
  • Who funds NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC
  • Who funds ANNE FRANK CENTER USA INC
  • Who funds NEW YORK JEWISH AGENDA INC
  • Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO
  • Who funds CEC STUYVESANT COVE INC
  • Who funds T'RUAH
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER
  • Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC
  • Who funds INSPIRE US
  • Who funds NEW JEWISH NARRATIVE INC

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 FundNY27.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Topol Family Foundation Inc · New Israel Fund · Mal Bdl Charitable Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · The Dobkin Family Foundation · Open Society Institute · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

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 Marietta and Andrew Romay Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 88%
  • Hias Inc88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to Marietta and Andrew Romay Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Marietta and Andrew Romay Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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