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Morris Kirschner Perpetual Charitable Tr

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.

$50k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2025
38
Organizations funded FY2024
24%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$24,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 38
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$601k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Morris Kirschner Perpetual Charitable Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyEducationHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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 arriving23$50k35%
FY202438$42k24%
FY202336$41k42%
FY202229$42k38%
FY202119$40k21%
FY202030$33k63%
FY201927$37kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$140kReligion$90kEnvironment$13kRecreation & Sports$10kEducation$6kHealth$6kInternational$5kCrime & Legal$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CO
VA
DE
AZ
KS
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 64 grantees
All grantees of Morris Kirschner Perpetual Charitable Tr by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Museum of Natural History$18,50030%
Temple Beth El$12,8286n/a
Metropolitan Museum of Art$10,45030%
Manhattan Theatre Club Inc$9,00030%
New York Shakespeare Festival$9,00030%
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust$8,00040%
Historic Hudson Valley$7,80040%
Whitney Museum of American Art$7,80050%
New York Botanical Garden$7,50050%
The Pierpont Morgan Library$6,50030%
Brooklyn Law School$6,00060%
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation$5,75030%
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences$5,50040%
Brooklyn United Methodist Church Home Inc$5,10020%
The Asia Society$5,00030%
Nassau County Museum of Art$4,95040%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$4,50030%
Fresh Air Fund$4,14350%
New York Public Radio$3,80040%
New York County Lawyers Association$3,27070%
Smithsonian Institution$3,00020%
Friends of the High Line Inc$3,00020%
Wildlife Conservation Society$3,00020%
The Jewish Museum$3,00020%
New York Historical Society$2,50010%
Museum of the City of New York$2,50010%
Planting Fields Foundation$2,05030%
Museum of Arts and Design$2,00020%
American Folk Art Museum$2,00020%
Bruce Museum Inc$2,00010%
Temple Beth El Inc$1,8551n/a
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$1,83550%
Mint Theater Company Inc$1,50010%
American Museum of the Moving Image$1,00010%
Wave Hill Incorporated$75030%
Grannies Respondabuelas Responden Inc$66210%
Mystic Seaport Museum Inc$66230%
The Eisenhower Foundation$63430%
Rubin Museum of Art Aka the Shelley & Donald Rubin Cultural Trust$59010%
Congregation Rodeph Sholom$5001n/a
Congregation Rodef Shalom$5001n/a
Summertrios Inc$50030%
Longwood Gardens Inc$43030%
Staten Island Zoological Society Inc$42530%
Acmp Associated Chamber Music Players I$40020%
Boca Raton Museum of Art$35030%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$35020%
Chebra Agudas Achim Chesed Shel Emeth Hebrew Free Burial Associationinc$30020%
Friends of the New York Transit Museum$27510%
The Preservation Society of Newport County$27520%
The Garden Conservancy Inc$25010%
Brooklyn Legal Services Inc$25010%
Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc$25010%
The Olana Partnership$20520%
Invisible Institute$20010%
Heckscher Museum$17510%
Old Merchants House of New York Inc$1251n/a
Temple Emanu-El$1001n/a
Manhasset Community Fund Inc$10020%
The Spence School$10010%
Thomas Cole Historic House$10010%
City Harvest Inc$10010%
The Franklin Institute$8510%
The Adirondack Council Inc$5010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($98k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Morris Kirschner Perpetual Charitable Tr supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $18,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $10,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetManhattan Theatre Club Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Shakespeare Festival: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Hudson Valley: $7,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $7,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Botanical Garden: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBrooklyn Law School: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSolomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $5,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBrooklyn United Methodist Church Home Inc: $5,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Asia Society: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNassau County Museum of Art: $4,950 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFresh Air Fund: $4,143 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $3,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York County Lawyers Association: $3,270 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the High Line Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jewish Museum: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of the City of New York: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanting Fields Foundation: $2,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Arts and Design: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Folk Art Museum: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBruce Museum Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,835 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMint Theater Company Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Museum of the Moving Image: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWave Hill Incorporated: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGrannies Respondabuelas Responden Inc: $662 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMystic Seaport Museum Inc: $662 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation: $634 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRubin Museum of Art Aka the Shelley & Donald Rubin Cultural Trust: $590 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSummertrios Inc: $500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLongwood Gardens Inc: $430 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStaten Island Zoological Society Inc: $425 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAcmp Associated Chamber Music Players I: $400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBoca Raton Museum of Art: $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChebra Agudas Achim Chesed Shel Emeth Hebrew Free Burial Associationinc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the New York Transit Museum: $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Preservation Society of Newport County: $275 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Garden Conservancy Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrooklyn Legal Services Inc: $250 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 58.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Vytautas Burbulis Charitable TrustNY26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vytautas Burbulis Charitable Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Greater Hudson Heritage Network · Ibm International Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Steven a Klar Foundation · Peggy N & Roger G Gerry Charitable · Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation · Open Society Institute · Mutual of America Foundation · The Ford Foundation

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 Morris Kirschner Perpetual Charitable Tr

How much does Morris Kirschner Perpetual Charitable Tr give?
Morris Kirschner Perpetual Charitable Tr reported 23 grants totaling $49,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 38 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Morris Kirschner Perpetual Charitable Tr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (49%), Religion (32%), Environment (5%).
Who are Morris Kirschner Perpetual Charitable Tr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: American Museum of Natural History ($19k), Temple Beth El ($13k), Metropolitan Museum of Art ($10k).
Does Morris Kirschner Perpetual Charitable Tr fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Morris Kirschner Perpetual Charitable Tr accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Morris Kirschner Perpetual Charitable Tr?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vytautas Burbulis Charitable Trust, Jewish Communal Fund, Greater Hudson Heritage Network.
Where is Morris Kirschner Perpetual Charitable Tr based?
Morris Kirschner Perpetual Charitable Tr 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 94 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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