· Private foundation
Myers L & Marilyn R Girsh Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDRENS RESOURCE FUND INC | $100,000 |
| FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC | $75,000 |
| MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATI | $50,000 |
| MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATI | $10,000 |
| CHILDRENS RESOURCE FUND INC | $10,000 |
| SPARK YOUTH NYC INC | $5,000 |
| RALLYE FOR PANCREATIC CANCER | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE ALBEMARLE | $3,000 |
| EDENTON-CHOWAN FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| RAPHAEL VILLAGE | $2,000 |
| FILLING IN THE BLANKS | $2,000 |
| LITTLE ESSENTIALS | $2,000 |
| ROTATION GIVES | $2,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $2,000 |
| LITTLE BEANS HOPE RESCUE | $1,500 |
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, $238k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +15% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 59 since wound down; 11 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k 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
- FCFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $225k · revenue +10%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF6× · 2017–2022 · $7k · revenue +76%- CFCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- RARaphael Academyone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -61%
- MLMIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +64%
- JMJEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDAone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Raphael Academy. 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 47 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 84 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 CHILDRENS RESOURCE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PINE HILL COMMUNITY CENTER LTD ↗
- Who funds SPARKYOUTH NYC INC ↗
- Who funds Raphael Academy ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE ALBEMARLE INC ↗
- Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds BONE HEALTH AND OSTEOPOROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE ESSENTIALS ↗
- Who funds BirdieLight ↗
- Who funds Raphael Village ↗
- Who funds ROTATION GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION 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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Myers L & Marilyn R Girsh Foundation Inc 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.
- Family & Children's Agency Inc — 47% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- The National Federation of the Blind — 2% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
- Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc — 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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