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Max and Ilona Gottlieb Family Foundation Inc C/O Paul Gottlieb at a glance

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Max and Ilona Gottlieb Family Foundation Inc C/O Paul Gottlieb

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$103k
Granted FY2019
26
Grants FY2019
5
States reached
$81k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
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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 2019.

Arts & Culture$108kEducation$22kReligion$4kHealth$1kCivil Rights$1kPhilanthropy$500International$280
02FY2019 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k24 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $81k
$250
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUNDS$80,810
OLIVER SCHOLARS PROGRAM$10,000
EAST END TEMPLE$3,116
CONGREGATION OR ZARUA$2,072
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$1,710
HONEST BROOK MUSIC FESTIVAL$650
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$500
FLAGER MUSEUM$500
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER$430
THE NORTON MUSEUM OF ART$413
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$400
FRIENDS OF THE NEUBERGER MUSEUM$275
FRACTURED ATLAS$250
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC$250
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LANGORE$250
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER: $430 → 14%FRIENDS OF MUSIC CONCERTS: $150 → 9%THE HOLOCAUST AND HUMAN EDUCATION CENTER: $1k → 13%HONEST BROOK MUSIC FESTIVAL: $1k → 15%THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF ART: $230 → 17%THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION MUSEUM: $150 → 14%THE NORTON MUSEUM OF ART: $413 → 11%SCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUNDS: $81k → 13%FRIENDS OF THE NEUBERGER MUSEUM: $11k → 9%THE NOGUCHI MUSEUM: $250 → 13%HONEST BROOK MUSIC FESTIVAL: $750 → 15%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LANGORE: $300 → 17%THE DREYFOOS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $200 → 11%FRIENDS OF THE NEUBERGER MUSEUM: $2k → 9%THE NOGUCHI MUSEUM: $250 → 13%HONEST BROOK MUSIC FESTIVAL: $650 → 15%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LANGORE: $250 → 17%FLAGER MUSEUM: $500 → 11%FRIENDS OF THE NEUBERGER MUSEUM: $275 → 9%THE NOGUCHI MUSEUM: $125 → 13%THE MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $150 → 17%FLAGER MUSEUM: $330 → 11%OLIVER SCHOLARS PROGRAM: $10k → 17%OLIVER SCHOLARS PROGRAM: $3k → 17%OLIVER SCHOLARS PROGRAM: $3k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $500 → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $400 → 17%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $500 → 17%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $180 → 17%CONGREGATION OR ZARUA: $2k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $2k → 17%CONGREGATION OR ZARUA: $2k → 17%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: $450 → 17%EAST END TEMPLE: $3k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2k → 17%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: $250 → 17%EAST END TEMPLE: $3k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2k → 17%AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA: $250 → 17%THE ART OF THE EARLY KEYBOARD: $100 → 17%FRACTURED ATLAS: $250 → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2k → 17%CITY ARTS: $150 → 17%THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM: $85 → 17%NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $100 → 17%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Max and Ilona Gottlieb Family Foundation Inc C/O Paul Gottlieb’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 40% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 30%.

Max and Ilona Gottlieb Family Foundation Inc C/O Paul Gottlieblessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$50k · 12 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
5

Total granted

$50k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+76%

Still filing today

67%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationInternationalCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    3× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +58%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $900 · revenue +50%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $750 · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • Metropolitan Opera Association Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -2%
  • TH
    THE HOLOCAUST AND HUMAN EDUCATION CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • AI
    AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA
    one grant, 2018 · $250
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.

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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
2
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
3
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
4
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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5
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
6
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
7
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
8
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
9
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
10
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
11
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
12
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 32 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUNDS: $80,810 · OtherSCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUNDSTHE OLIVER SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC: $15,250 · OtherTHE OLIVER SCHOLARS PROGRAM INCEAST END TEMPLE-CONGREGATION ELEMEN T: $6,336 · OtherEAST END TEMPLE-CONGREGATION ELEMEN TCONGREGATION OR ZARUA: $4,072 · Other+10 more: $3,495 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE NEUBERGER MUSEUM OF ART INC: $12,875 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE NEUBE…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $4,910 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM …HONEST BROOK MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $2,400 · Arts & CultureHONEST BROOK MUSIC F…Metropolitan Opera Association Inc: $2,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera A…+8 more: $2,818 · Arts & Culture+8 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $900 · HealthAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $750 · Civil RightsUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $180 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $100 · InternationalThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $150 · Education
Other$109,963Arts & Culture$25,003Health$900Civil Rights$750Philanthropy$500International$280Education$150

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 OLIVER SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC: $15,250 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NEUBERGER MUSEUM OF ART INC: $12,875 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $4,910 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHONEST BROOK MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $2,400 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM: $625 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $430 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $413 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYARTS INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MUSIC CONCERTS INC: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $100 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.

Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Max and Ilona Gottlieb Family Foundation Inc C/O Paul Gottlieb funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Max and Ilona Gottlieb Family Foundation Inc C/O Paul Gottlieb. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Max and Ilona Gottlieb Family Foundation Inc C/O Paul Gottlieb 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 32 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2020) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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