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Midler 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.

$52k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Environment$1.1MInternational$575kFood & Nutrition$416kArts & Culture$414kEducation$227kPublic Safety & Disaster$225kHealth$220kPhilanthropy$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$384k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$22,000
PAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION$10,000
WILD IS LIFE USA$10,000
BROADWAY MALL ASSOCIATION$5,000
PERFECT EARTH PROJECT$3,500
THE FRESH AIR FUND$1,000
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 (FY19–23, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMEN'S SUPPORT SERVICES: $2k → 9%EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $5k → 31%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 20%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
NV
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
DC
HI
MS
AL
TX

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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 16 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
55

Total granted

$1.7M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+17%

Still filing today

69%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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 & CulturePhilanthropyInternationalFood & NutritionEnvironmentEducationOther

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

  • FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY
    3× · 2018–2021 · $210k · revenue +151%
  • AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND
    5× · 2018–2024 · $92k · revenue +161%
  • TA
    THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA
    2× · 2019–2021 · $60k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -40%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +10%
  • AG
    ARTISANS GUILD OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -77% · 33% of their budget

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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
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
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
8
Wnet

Wnet is a multi-media public service non-profit that delivers lifelong learning and meaningful experiences to our communities. our content inspires curiosity, encourages action and nurtures dreams.

Arts & Culture
9
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
10
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
11
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations

The mission of the new york public library is to inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge, and strengthen our communities.

Education
12
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Renewal Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyIndependent K-12 SchoolsCancer Support ServicesDance Arts OrganizationsUnited Way AffiliatesEnvironmental Conservation …Military Veterans SupportFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Local History MuseumsCommunity Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%62%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 19% 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 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/63
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,697

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

61 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. 61 of the 79 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
38/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT — $1,066,300 · EnvironmentNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT+3 more — $50,000 · EnvironmentCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $500,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUND…CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNIT…STUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC — $45,000 · PhilanthropySTUDENT LEADERSHIP …+5 more — $42,500 · Philanthropy+5 moreLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $100,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD B…BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $100,000 · OtherBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS…LA MAMA ETC — $75,000 · OtherLA MAMA ETCRACE TO ERASE MS — $55,000 · OtherRACE TO ERASE MSNEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $45,000 · OtherTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $60,000 · OtherTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICAEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $50,000 · OtherEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE+38 more — $411,500 · Other+38 moreWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $200,000 · InternationalWORLD CEN…GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIV…HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST — $25,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIG…DIRECT RELIEF — $15,000 · InternationalPERFECT EARTH PROJECT INC — $11,000 · InternationalARTISANS GUILD OF AMERICA — $100,000 · Arts & CultureSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND — $100,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GARRY MARSHALL THEATRE — $10,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHOPE CLUB PRESERVATION FUND — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $12,500 · Arts & CultureFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $210,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $25,000 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $92,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE — $40,000 · EducationHARLEM ACADEMY — $25,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $25,000 · EducationLiteracy Partners Inc — $10,000 · Education
Environment$1,116,300Philanthropy$637,500Other$896,500International$301,000Arts & Culture$282,500Community Improvement$235,000Education$192,000

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 budgetNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT — $1,066,300 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $210,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTISANS GUILD OF AMERICA — $100,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $92,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRACE TO ERASE MS — $55,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWestchester Land Trust Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT — $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPERFECT EARTH PROJECT INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE GARRY MARSHALL THEATRE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLiteracy Partners Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRARE VILLAGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAISEDBY US INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE MOONRIDGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWILD IS LIFE USA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTHE SENTENCING PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMPLEHARVESTORG INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION — $10,000 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe David Geffen Foun…The Hyde and Watson F…The New York Communit…Paypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Network for Good
Jewish Communal FundNY15.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The David Geffen Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Midler 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Midler Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Midler 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 79 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.

    Source object · view filing

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