· Private foundation
Milton & Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Foundation
Its FY2025 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
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k64 grants · $945k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UJA FEDERATION OF NY | $50,000 |
| WNET CHANNEL 13 | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER NY | $25,000 |
| UNITED CHURCH HOMES | $25,000 |
| HEALTHY AGING COALITION | $25,000 |
| CARNEGIE HALL | $25,000 |
| CAPITAL CARING | $25,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $25,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| CAPITAL HILL BOYS CLUB ART GALLERY | $20,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN ARTS | $20,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| DC HISTORY CENTER | $20,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $214k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
93 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $352k 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
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +39%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +74%
- TPTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- SFSAN FRAN MARIN FOOD BANKone grant, 2024 · $40k
AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +26%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
Humanities washington (hw) opens minds and bridges divides by creating spaces to explore different perspectives. we envision a state where all people seek a deeper understanding of others, themselves, and the human experience, in order to…
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).
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artstream Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tim Academy Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 153 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 UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI MARIN Inc ↗
- Who funds The Studio Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds Nature Forward ↗
- Who funds Youth in Arts ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSTOWN ART CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW FAMILIES DC ↗
- Who funds ACTION YOUTH MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Community Bridges Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTSTREAM INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Stepping Stones Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds GLIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHURCH HOMES 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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Alice Shaver Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee · England Family Foundation · Humanities Council of Washington DC · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · Marin Community 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 Milton & Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond 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.
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- First Candle Inc — 46% of income from government
- Nature Forward — 32% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
- Action Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Capital Hospice — 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.
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