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Moses L Parshelsky Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$446k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$2.2MHuman Services$762kArts & Culture$108kFood & Nutrition$88kYouth Development$77kEducation$66kCivil Rights$60kPhilanthropy$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $115k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $171k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VISIONSSERVS FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED$60,000
THE BROOKDALE HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER$50,000
METROPOLITAN JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION$50,000
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH$25,000
DOROT INC$22,000
SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY CENTER$20,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NEW YORK CITY INC$16,500
YOUNG ADVOCATES FOR FAIR EDUCATION$15,000
JASA JEWISH ASSOCIATION SERVING THE AGING$14,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER CI$12,500
JBI INTERNATIONAL (JEWISH BRAILIE INST)$12,000
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION$12,000
LEXINGTON HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER INC$12,000
HANDS IN 4 YOUTH (VACAMAS)$10,000
PROJECT EZRA$8,750
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $4k → 9%LEXINGTON HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER INC: $12k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER CI: $13k → 20%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $4k → 9%LEXINGTON HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER INC: $12k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER CI: $13k → 20%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $4k → 9%LEXINGTON HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER INC: $12k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER CI: $13k → 20%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $4k → 9%LEXINGTON HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER INC: $12k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER CI: $13k → 20%LEXINGTON HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER INC: $12k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER CI: $10k → 20%LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER: $12k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER CI: $10k → 20%LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER: $12k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER CI: $10k → 20%LEXINGTON HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER INC: $12k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER CI: $10k → 20%LEXINGTON HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER INC: $12k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER CI: $10k → 20%PROJECT EZRA: $9k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $9k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $9k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $9k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $9k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $9k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $9k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $9k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $9k → 17%DOROT INC: $22k → 17%DOROT INC: $22k → 17%VISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $60k → 17%DOROT INC: $22k → 17%VISIONSSERVS FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $60k → 17%DOROT INC: $22k → 17%VISIONSSERVS FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $60k → 17%DOROT INC: $22k → 17%VISIONSSERVS FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $60k → 17%DOROT INC: $22k → 17%VISIONSSERVS FOR BLIND&VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $60k → 17%DOROT INC: $22k → 17%VISIONSSERVS FOR BLIND&VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $60k → 17%DOROT INC: $22k → 17%VISIONSSERVS FOR BLIND&VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $60k → 17%DOROT INC: $22k → 17%VISIONSSERVS FOR BLIND&VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $60k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 58 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

58 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
3

Total granted

$3.8M
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+124%

Still filing today

59%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MJ
    METROPOLITAN JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +9%
  • BH
    BROOKDALE HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
    7× · 2019–2025 · $350k · revenue +68%
  • NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • VF
    VISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND
    one grant, 2017 · $60k
  • HI
    HANDS IN FOR YOUTH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +124%
  • SJ
    SHOREFRONT JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +112%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc

To empower new yorkers, providing integrated mental health and social services with compassion and expertise.

Human Services
2
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services
3
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
4
Maimonides Medical Center

Maimonides medical center is dedicated to fostering healthy communities. we provide high quality, compassionate patient care and comprehensive community services. as a premier academic medical center, we are devoted to educating health…

Health
5
The New York and Presbyterian Hospital

To be a leader in the provision of world class patient care, teaching, research, and service to local, state, national, and international communities. newyork-presbyterian hospital is one of the nation's most comprehensive, integrated…

Health
6
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
7
Edith & Carl Marks Jewish Community House Bensonhurst Inc

The mission of the marks jch of bensonhurst, known as the jch, is to be a center for community life in brooklyn that is rooted in jewish values and fosters an inclusive environment. we affect residents at every life stage by providing…

Recreation & Sports
8
Nysarc Inc New York City Chapter

We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.

Human Services
9
Manhattan Eye & Ear Ophthalmology Alumni Foundation Inc
Health
10
The Brooklyn Queens Conservatory of Music

The mission of the brooklyn conservatory of music is to transformlives and build community through the expressive, educational andtherapeutic powers of music.

Arts & Culture
11
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
12
Jewish Family Services of Greenwich

Jewish family services of greenwich (jfs) is a nonprofit social service agency dedicated to strengthening individuals and families in fairfield and new london counties. jfs provides behavioral health counseling, food security programs,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kings Bay Ym-Ywha Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/38
Grantees still filing
30/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLITAN JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $450,000 · HealthMETROPOLITAN JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM FOU…BROOKDALE HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $350,000 · HealthBROOKDALE HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTERNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $225,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTHPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $115,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YOR…NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $84,000 · HealthNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATIONBINA STROKE AND BRAIN INJURY ASSISTANCE INC: $67,500 · HealthVISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $480,000 · Human ServicesVISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AN…DOROT INC: $198,000 · Human ServicesDOROT INCThe Lexington Hearing & Speech Center Inc: $108,000 · Human ServicesThe Lexington Hearing & Speech C…JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER CONEY ISLAND INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREA…Project Ezra: $78,750 · Human ServicesProject Ezra+7 more: $151,250 · Human Services+7 moreKINGSBROOK JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER INC: $140,000 · OtherKINGSBROOK JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER…BROOKDALE UNIV HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER: $100,000 · OtherBROOKDALE UNIV HOSPITAL & MEDICA…JASA JEWISH ASSOCIATION SERVING THE AGING: $86,000 · OtherJASA JEWISH ASSOCIATION SERVING …HANDS IN 4 YOUTH (VACAMAS): $70,000 · OtherHANDS IN 4 YOUTH (VACAMAS)YOUNG ADVOCATES FOR FAIR EDUCATION: $61,000 · OtherYOUNG ADVOCATES FOR FAIR EDUCATI…VISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $60,000 · OtherJBI INTERNATIONAL (JEWISH BRAILLE INST): $48,000 · OtherCALVARY FUND INC OF CALVARY HOSPITAL: $45,000 · OtherTHE BRIDGE: $45,000 · OtherUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $45,000 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $45,000 · Other+23 more: $383,250 · Other+23 moreSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC: $164,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,200 · Youth DevelopmentTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $45,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $33,750 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $21,500 · Arts & CultureBROOKLYN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM CORPORATION: $13,700 · Arts & CultureSt Johns Bread & Life Program Inc: $54,000 · Food & NutritionTHE AUDITORY ORAL SCHOOL OF NY: $34,000 · EducationBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $19,500 · Education
Health$1,292,000Human Services$1,116,000Other$1,128,250Youth Development$165,200Arts & Culture$113,950Food & Nutrition$54,000Education$53,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $480,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetBROOKDALE HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $350,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $225,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $198,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC: $164,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetKINGSBROOK JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER INC: $140,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $115,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lexington Hearing & Speech Center Inc: $108,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER CONEY ISLAND INC: $100,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $84,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetProject Ezra: $78,750 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetBINA STROKE AND BRAIN INJURY ASSISTANCE INC: $67,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetSt Johns Bread & Life Program Inc: $54,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC: $36,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBROOKLYN BUREAU OF COMMUNITY SERVICE: $36,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $36,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AUDITORY ORAL SCHOOL OF NY: $34,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $33,750 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Voices Heard Inc: $29,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetKINGS BAY YM-YWHA INC: $28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $21,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $19,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJEWS FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $18,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBROOKLYN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM CORPORATION: $13,700 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLearning Ally Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHANDS IN FOR YOUTH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $6,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCOLONY-SOUTH BROOKLYN HOUSES INCORPORATED: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHOREFRONT JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds VISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BROOKDALE HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds DOROT INC ↗
  • Who funds SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds KINGSBROOK JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds The Lexington Hearing & Speech Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER CONEY ISLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Project Ezra ↗
  • Who funds BINA STROKE AND BRAIN INJURY ASSISTANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN BUREAU OF COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AUDITORY ORAL SCHOOL OF NY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Community Voices Heard Inc ↗
  • Who funds KINGS BAY YM-YWHA INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOTSTEPS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗

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 FundNY24.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ford Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Food Bank for New York City · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Nash Family Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Open Society Institute · The New York Community Trust · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Investors Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Moses L Parshelsky Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Moses L Parshelsky Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Hands in for Youth Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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.

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