· Public charity
Park Avenue Charitable Fund
To distribute funds to other exempt publicly supported charitable organizations.
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of Park Avenue Charitable Fund’s FY2025 grant dollars went to President And Fellows Of Harvard College, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 26 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Park Avenue Charitable Fund named its own grantees at scale: 40 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 42 grants below total $1,122,900 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,281,771 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $158,871 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k10 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $416k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $636k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR WEIZMANN INSTITUTE | $200,000 |
| COLUMBIA PRESBYTERIAN BABIES HEART FUND | $151,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $65,250 |
| RADICAL HOPE INC | $60,000 |
| LYCEE FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK | $60,000 |
| AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ART 21 INC | $50,000 |
| BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH | $27,000 |
| FOOD FOR THE POOR | $26,000 |
| NYU LANGONE HEALTH | $25,000 |
| FEEDING WESTCHESTER | $25,000 |
| NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC | $25,000 |
| UJA | $23,800 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $22,500 |
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, $217k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +31% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2023, 38 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k 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
- ACAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $850k · revenue +17%
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE9× · 2017–2025 · $356k · revenue +116%- HIHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL3× · 2017–2019 · $340k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- TBTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUNDone grant, 2017 · $1.9M · revenue -10%
- BJBETH JUDAH TEMPLEone grant, 2020 · $100k
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +22%
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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…
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…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust and the most unlike its peers is Skating Club of Jackson Hole. 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 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
133 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. 133 of the 152 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 THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds HURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREEN CHIMNEYS CHILDREN'S SERVICE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds LYCEE FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds ART21 INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM FOR AFRICAN ART D/B/A THE AFRICA CENTER ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds RADICAL HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL 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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ford Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Fjc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Arison Arts Foundation · Ag Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Altman Foundation
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 Park Avenue Charitable Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Summit Downtown Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- All Our Kin Inc — 1% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor 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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