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Melvin Stecher & Norman Horowitz Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,600
Organizations funded a year
2 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$23k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Melvin Stecher & Norman Horowitz Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$8k0%
FY20242$5k0%
FY20233$10k0%
FY20222$6k0%
FY20216$6k17%
FY20207$17k14%
FY20198$8k25%
FY201812$12k33%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$48kArts & Culture$31kHealth$2kHuman Services$660Education$500Food & Nutrition$200

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Congregation Emanuel$47,8309n/a
The Lotos Foundation Inc$12,29042%
Manhattan School of Music$6,50060%
The Stecher and Horowitz Foundation$6,00022%
Lupus Research Alliance Inc$2,00020%
Downtown Music at Grace Inc$1,35050%
Literacy Inc$50010%
Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies Inc$45020%
AARP Foundation$5010%
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$2510%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Melvin Stecher & Norman Horowitz Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Lotos Foundation Inc: $12,290 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetManhattan School of Music: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Stecher and Horowitz Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLupus Research Alliance Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDowntown Music at Grace Inc: $1,350 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLiteracy Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies Inc: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAARP Foundation: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Foundation for Suicide Prevention: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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 Foundation
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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.

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About Melvin Stecher & Norman Horowitz Foundation Inc

How much does Melvin Stecher & Norman Horowitz Foundation Inc give?
Melvin Stecher & Norman Horowitz Foundation Inc reported 3 grants totaling $7,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Melvin Stecher & Norman Horowitz Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (58%), Arts & Culture (37%), Health (3%).
Who are Melvin Stecher & Norman Horowitz Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Congregation Emanuel ($48k), The Lotos Foundation Inc ($12k), Manhattan School of Music ($7k).
Does Melvin Stecher & Norman Horowitz Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Melvin Stecher & Norman Horowitz Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Melvin Stecher & Norman Horowitz Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Melvin Stecher & Norman Horowitz Foundation Inc based?
Melvin Stecher & Norman Horowitz Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 19 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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