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Morton & Carole Olshan Foundation

$150k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$556

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Morton & Carole Olshan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalCivil RightsOther
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
FY2024still arriving3$150k33%
FY20235$230k20%
FY20227$1.5M14%
FY20219$711k22%
FY20209$2.3M0%
FY201914$1.5M36%
FY201822$1.8M55%
FY201714$1.7Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$4.9MReligion$4.1MPhilanthropy$2.4MArts & Culture$479kInternational$458kHealth$77kRecreation & Sports$10kHousing & Shelter$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association$3,102,00071%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$2,139,00060%
Horace Mann School$1,720,00060%
Park Avenue Synagogue Inc$757,2004n/a
The Hunter College Foundation Inc$495,00042%
American Friends of Beit Ruth Inc$402,50085%
Museum of Arts and Design$287,50061%
New York Yankees Foundation Inc$250,000413%
Jewish Center of the Hamptons$240,1004n/a
College for Creative Studies$50,00010%
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Plus 7 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 Morton & Carole Olshan Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association: $3,102,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $2,139,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHorace Mann School: $1,720,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe Hunter College Foundation Inc: $495,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Friends of Beit Ruth Inc: $402,500 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetMuseum of Arts and Design: $287,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNew York Yankees Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetCollege for Creative Studies: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Landmarks Conservancy Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israeli Navy Seals Inc: $48,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetFriends of United Hatzalah Inc: $36,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNavy Seal Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEncourage Kids Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Hasty Pudding - Institute of 1770 Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMaccabi World Union Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerica Needs You: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRobin Hood Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetNew York STEM Cell Foundation Inc: $9,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Jewish Health: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United Neighborhood Houses of New York Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHarmonie Preservation Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetImpactisrael Inc: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $3,600 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 26.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY18.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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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Find your warmest path to Morton & Carole Olshan 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.

About Morton & Carole Olshan Foundation

How much does Morton & Carole Olshan Foundation give?
Morton & Carole Olshan Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $150,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Morton & Carole Olshan Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (39%), Religion (33%), Philanthropy (19%).
Who are Morton & Carole Olshan Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association ($3.1M), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($2.1M), Horace Mann School ($1.7M).
Does Morton & Carole Olshan Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Morton & Carole Olshan Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
Where is Morton & Carole Olshan Foundation based?
Morton & Carole Olshan Foundation 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 37 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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