· Private foundation
Melvin Stecher & Norman Horowitz Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL | $5,600 |
| THE LOTOS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| PENGUIN REPERTORY THEATRE | $200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MSMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC6× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +47%
- DMDOWNTOWN MUSIC AT GRACE INC5× · 2017–2021 · $1k · revenue +30%
- SASIGMA ALPHA IOTA PHILANTHROPIES INC2× · 2019–2021 · $450 · revenue +31%
Funded once
- LILITERACY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +27%
- FOFRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $250
- CFCOMFORT FOOD COMMUNITYone grant, 2018 · $200
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
See schedule oyoung musicians of talent need support. left alone with their gift,without the instruction and mentoring that allows them to thrive, eventhe most exceptional young artists will struggle, and many may fail toachieve their full…
The Americana Music Association Foundation was founded to preserve Americana music through education. Our endeavors strengthen understanding, awareness and appreciation of cultural heritage, shine a light on inspiration, and promote the…
The lake placid sinfonietta, the adirondacks orchestra of world class musicians, unleashes the power of music to entertain, educate and inspire people of all ages.
The albany symphony orchestra celebrates our living musical heritage. through brilliant live performances, innovative educational programming, and engaging cultural events, the albany symphony enriches a broad & diverse regional community.…
Rilm is dedicated to disseminating musicological knowledge andfostering communications among all research and performancecommunities.
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
World music institute is committed to presenting the best in traditional and contemporary music and dance from around the world to enrich lives through the arts, promote awareness and appreciation of the worlds rich cultural traditions and…
The organization helps the next generations of musicians and composers to develop skills and experiences for professional success. the organization seeks to support musicians in achieving their visions in the changing worlds of symphonic…
The international society for the performing arts (ispa) is an international network of performing arts professionals who come together with the shared goal of strengthening the arts internationally by building leadership ability,…
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
The foundation was established to support the mission of music for all, inc., an affiliated 501(c)3 not-for-profit education organization. the mission is to create, provide, and expand positively life changing experiences through music for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the most unlike its peers is Manhattan School of Music. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 19 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE LOTOS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE STECHER AND HOROWITZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN MUSIC AT GRACE INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds SIGMA ALPHA IOTA PHILANTHROPIES INC ↗
- Who funds AARP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Melvin Stecher & Norman Horowitz 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.
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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