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Max and Selma Kupferberg Family Foundation

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.

$405k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$935kHealth$536kEnvironment$255kArts & Culture$179kHuman Services$46kCivil Rights$30kYouth Development$21kCrime & Legal$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$175,000
PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES$75,000
QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC$50,000
HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY$25,000
LOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM$10,000
CALVARY HOSPITAL INC$8,500
QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC$5,000
PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC$5,000
PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC$5,000
RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC$5,000
QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$3,500
FOOTSTEPS INC$3,000
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 (FY20–24, $410k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $1k → 6%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $80k → 7%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $1k → 6%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $75k → 7%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $1k → 6%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $75k → 7%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $1k → 6%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $75k → 7%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $500 → 6%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $75k → 7%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $5k → 7%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $5k → 7%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $5k → 7%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $5k → 7%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $5k → 7%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.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 33 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
4

Total granted

$2.0M
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+12%

Still filing today

97%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsEducationOther

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

  • QC
    QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $925k · revenue +90%
  • PA
    PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $405k · revenue +99%
  • QB
    QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $255k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -9%
  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +12%
  • AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +17%

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
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
2
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
3
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
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
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
6
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
7
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
8
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
9
Stony Brook Ophthalmology 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
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
11
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
12
Stony Brook Orthopedic 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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Queens College Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wgbh Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr21%18%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr12%49%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr21%2%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr12%72%55yr+

The field is 20% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
11%
5,235/47,376

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
28/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $925,000 · OtherQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC+13 more — $87,500 · Other+13 morePATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC — $405,000 · Human ServicesPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICE…+2 more — $16,000 · Human ServicesQUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC — $255,000 · EnvironmentQUEENS BOTANIC…HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY — $105,000 · Arts & CultureHANDEL AND…LOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM — $50,000 · Arts & CultureLOUIS ARMS…CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS INCORPORATED 1974 — $8,000 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educational Foundation — $7,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $12,750 · Arts & Culture+4 moreCALVARY HOSPITAL INC — $39,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $25,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $25,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $15,500 · Health+3 more — $4,500 · HealthRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC — $20,500 · Recreation & SportsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $8,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $5,500 · Civil Rights
Other$1,012,500Human Services$421,000Environment$255,000Arts & Culture$182,750Health$109,500Recreation & Sports$20,500Civil Rights$19,500

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 budgetQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $925,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC — $405,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetQUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC — $255,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY — $105,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM — $50,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCALVARY HOSPITAL INC — $39,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERING ARMS CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC — $20,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR RARE DISORDERS INC — $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC — $11,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR BOOK ARTS INCORPORATED 1974 — $8,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUnitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc — $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL ADRENAL DISEASES FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation — $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE — $4,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont Child Care Association Inc — $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHIAS INC — $4,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWNET — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC — $2,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON HOSPITAL — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRED BULL THEATER INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $500 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.

The Hyde and Watson F…Vanguard Charitable E…The New York Communit…National Philanthropi…The Ford FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…The Pfizer Foundation…Network for Good
The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ford Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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 Max and Selma Kupferberg Family Foundation 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 · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Emerson Hospital — 3% of income from government
  • Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report 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, 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.

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How do I get to Max and Selma Kupferberg Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Max and Selma Kupferberg Family Foundation 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 37 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.

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