· Private foundation
Michelle and Don Ienner Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of MICHELLE AND DON IENNER FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k13 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE DONALD S IENNER DONOR AND MICHELLE CHARLENE IENNER DONOR | $16,542 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| FAIRFIELD COUNTY HOUSE | $1,000 |
| PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA | $420 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION OF LONG ISLAND | $250 |
| GILDA'S CLUB WESTCHESTER | $200 |
| ST ANN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $100 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $100 |
| NATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION | $51 |
| NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS | $50 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA | $50 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $50 |
| CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER | $30 |
| KIDS WISH NETWORK | $25 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $424) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +45% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
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 FY2023, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- WCWildlife Conservation Society7× · 2017–2023 · $33k · revenue +59%
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2022 · $600 · revenue +226%- NYNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN3× · 2017–2019 · $475 · revenue +40%
Funded once
- MSMT SINAI - ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2017 · $20k
- WMWestchester Medical Center Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +64%
- TNTHE NAOMI BERRIE DIABETES CENTERone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
35 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. 35 of the 53 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 Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds Westchester Medical Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER NY & CT INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEED THY NEIGHBOR ↗
- Who funds NORWALKSTAMFORD GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SANTA'S MAGIC INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH GREEN & CLEAN INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION 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.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Michelle and Don Ienner 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.
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
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.