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Motulsky-Nacht Family 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.

$578k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$71MScience & Tech$525kInternational$523kEducation$489kEnvironment$373kCrime & Legal$349kFood & Nutrition$179kHealth$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $156k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$197M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALK INSTITUTE$250,000
INNOCENCE PROJECT$50,100
OCEANA INC$50,000
CURE BLINDNESS PROJECT$50,000
CONGREGATION OR ZARUA$25,710
GODS LOVE WE DELIVER$25,000
NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY$25,000
VOLUNTEERS OF LEGAL SERVICES$25,000
BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA$25,000
CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES$20,000
CAMFED USA$10,000
SECOND STAGE THEATER$5,000
WEST SIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER$5,000
VILLAGES IN PARTNERSHIP$5,000
L'A ARETZ FOUNDATION$1,800
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 (FY19–25, $304k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FIRST STAR: $3k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $51k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $50k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $50k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $50k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $50k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $50k → 17%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

VT
WA
IL
NY
MA
WY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 28 repeat orgs$272k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
31

Total granted

$2.4M
$269k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+19%

Still filing today

79%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationArts & CultureAnimalsFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • Cornell University
    5× · 2019–2024 · $333k · revenue +50%
  • TI
    THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $301k · revenue +35%
  • HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $250k · revenue +213%

Funded once

  • OA
    ONE ACRE FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +3%
  • TN
    THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +24%
  • SB
    ST BENEDICTS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k

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
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
4
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
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
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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8
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
9
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
National Philanthropic Trust

National philanthropic trust ("npt") is a public charity dedicated to increasing philanthropy in society by providing philanthropic expertise to donors, foundations and financial institutions, enabling them to realize their philanthropic…

Philanthropy
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life and the most unlike its peers is Grand Teton National Park Foundation. 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 backsteadyJewish Community FederationsLand Conservation Organizat…Wildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Food Pantries & AssistanceLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Christian Missionary Organi…Education Equity LeadershipCommunity Arts OrganizationsCancer Support OrganizationsPublic Library SupportClassical Music EnsemblesEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Government Accountability R…Independent K-8 SchoolsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
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 36 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr12%0%5–10yr21%11%10–20yr14%32%20–35yr16%40%35–55yr20%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr21%1%10–20yr14%1%20–35yr16%98%35–55yr20%1%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/51
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,255

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

47 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. 47 of the 67 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
34/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $70,396,301 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDSALK INSTITUTE — $550,000 · OtherCURE BLINDNESS PROJECT — $100,000 · OtherCONGREGATION OR ZARUA — $67,880 · OtherNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY — $76,000 · OtherGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $55,000 · OtherBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA — $117,500 · OtherSPORTS HUMANITARIAN GROUP INC — $55,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF LEGAL SERVICE INC — $47,500 · Other+36 more — $168,255 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $550,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $52,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND — $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC — $250,000 · InternationalONE ACRE FUND — $100,000 · InternationalCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $55,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $36,000 · International+4 more — $26,720 · InternationalCornell University — $332,650 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $16,000 · Education+4 more — $6,070 · EducationTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $301,200 · Human Services+1 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesOCEANA INC — $255,000 · Environment
Community Improvement$70,396,301Other$1,237,135Philanthropy$662,000International$467,720Education$454,720Human Services$303,700Environment$255,000

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $70,396,301 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $550,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University — $332,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $301,200 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetOCEANA INC — $255,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC — $250,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA — $117,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetONE ACRE FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY — $76,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSPORTS HUMANITARIAN GROUP INC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $52,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF LEGAL SERVICE INC — $47,500 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVILLAGES IN PARTNERSHIP INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE — $11,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORN OF AFRICA EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetELEPHANTVOICES — $6,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION — $3,640 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST STAR INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILMINC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetROCKHOUSE FOUNDATION — $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUPPORT CONNECTION INC — $575 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC — $360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC — $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION — $260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC — $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSUMER REPORTS INC — $100 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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Boston Foundation IncJpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY18× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Motulsky-Nacht 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • National Center for Jewish Filminc — 4% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
15report 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.

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 67 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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