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Park Avenue Charitable Fund

To distribute funds to other exempt publicly supported charitable organizations.

$1.3M
Granted FY2023
42
Grants FY2023
13
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

33
’17
40
’18
42
’19
35
’20
37
’21
32
’22
40
’23
25
’24
26
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.5MPhilanthropy$1.1MHealth$1.1MScience & Tech$886kCivil Rights$729kArts & Culture$670kReligion$594kInternational$562kOther$0
02FY2023 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 42 grants below total $1,122,900, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,281,771 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $158,871 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k10 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $416k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $636k
$12,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR WEIZMANN INSTITUTE$200,000
COLUMBIA PRESBYTERIAN BABIES HEART FUND$151,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$65,250
LYCEE FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK$60,000
RADICAL HOPE INC$60,000
ART 21 INC$50,000
AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION$50,000
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY$30,000
CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH$27,000
FOOD FOR THE POOR$26,000
FEEDING WESTCHESTER$25,000
NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC$25,000
NYU LANGONE HEALTH$25,000
UJA$23,800
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$22,500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GOOD COUNSEL INC: $20k → 14%UNIQUE PEOPLE SERVICES: $18k → 28%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $104k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $14k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $25k → 17%MODEST NEEDS FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%MODEST NEEDS FOUNDATION: $6k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
MD
TN
DC
AL
FL
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.0M · 65 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
51

Total granted

$6.0M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+31%

Still filing today

88%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AC
    AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $850k · revenue +168%
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $356k · revenue +116%
  • HI
    HURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $340k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $1.9M · revenue -10%
  • BJ
    BETH JUDAH TEMPLE
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +22%
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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
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
4
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
5
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
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
8
Manhattan University

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…

Education
9
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
10
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
11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust; 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.
04the grantee network

133 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. 133 of the 152 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
131/133
Grantees still filing
96/133
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND: $1,887,800 · EducationTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUNDPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $592,485 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeCornell University: $185,500 · EducationBucknell University: $180,000 · EducationLYCEE FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK: $180,000 · EducationTeachers College Columbia University: $151,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $139,000 · Education+20 more: $566,529 · Education+20 moreAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $850,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITT…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $242,600 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS…MYRIAD USA INC: $208,475 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INCJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $94,300 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL …AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $89,250 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS…FOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $76,000 · International+6 more: $86,500 · InternationalGREEN CHIMNEYS CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $250,000 · OtherGREEN CHIMNEYS CHILDREN…FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $198,500 · OtherFEEDING WESTCHESTER INCCHABAD OF BEDFORD INC: $139,800 · OtherCHABAD OF BEDFORD INCBETH JUDAH TEMPLE: $100,000 · OtherHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $340,000 · OtherHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWAR…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $127,500 · OtherAmerican National Red C…THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · OtherCITY HARVEST INC: $95,448 · Other+50 more: $1,015,703 · Other+50 moreNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $565,146 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PH…VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $199,625 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CH…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $188,900 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWI…JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $107,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDE…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $70,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FR…+4 more: $51,000 · PhilanthropyWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $131,000 · Arts & CultureART21 INC: $102,500 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM FOR AFRICAN ART D/B/A THE AFRICA CENTER: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $48,500 · Arts & CultureTHE SCULPTURE CENTER INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureFUTURE ROOTS INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $201,636 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $126,000 · HealthNYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM: $105,000 · HealthColumbia Presbyterian Medical Center Fund Inc: $101,000 · HealthRADICAL HOPE INC: $70,000 · HealthAMERICAN MIGRAINE FOUNDATION INC: $53,000 · HealthTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $47,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $32,750 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $30,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN: $25,000 · HealthELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Health+6 more: $81,250 · HealthAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $355,750 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $117,000 · Civil RightsNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $75,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL ASSOCIATION TO ADVANCE FAT ACCEPTANCE INC: $63,500 · Civil RightsInjustice Watch NFP: $45,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $25,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $5,920 · Civil Rights
Education$4,032,314International$1,647,125Other$2,366,951Philanthropy$1,181,671Arts & Culture$698,636Health$696,000Civil Rights$687,170

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 budgetTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND: $1,887,800 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $850,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $592,485 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $565,146 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $355,750 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $340,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetGREEN CHIMNEYS CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $250,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $242,600 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $208,475 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $198,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $188,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $185,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $180,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLYCEE FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK: $180,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $151,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $139,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $131,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $127,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $126,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $117,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $107,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM: $105,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetART21 INC: $102,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $102,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia Presbyterian Medical Center Fund Inc: $101,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSEUM FOR AFRICAN ART D/B/A THE AFRICA CENTER: $100,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $95,448 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $94,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $89,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $76,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $71,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetRADICAL HOPE INC: $70,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $70,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION TO ADVANCE FAT ACCEPTANCE INC: $63,500 over 6y, 32% of budgetAMERICAN MIGRAINE FOUNDATION INC: $53,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $51,046 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $48,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $48,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $47,983 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $47,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMONROVIA FOOTBALL ACADEMY INC: $45,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetCAMBA INC: $40,000 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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundThe Ford FoundationThe New York Communit…FjcMother Cabrini Health…Arison Arts FoundationAg FoundationRobin Hood FoundationThe Bessemer Giving F…The Chicago Community…Altman Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY25.8× affinity15 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 · 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

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 Park Avenue Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Park Avenue Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Park Avenue Charitable Fund?

Find your warmest path to Park Avenue Charitable Fund 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.

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 152 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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