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Pasternak 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $84k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VALLEY CHABAD | $115,000 |
| SUNY NEW PALTZ FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| HAVAYAH CENTER | $19,000 |
| CATSKILL REVITALIZATION CORP | $10,000 |
| MARK PROJECT FLEISCHMANNS FIRST | $10,000 |
| KABBALAH CENTRE INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| YJP OF HOBOKEN & JERSEY CITY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ARTS IN COLLECTIVE | $5,000 |
| JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION OF NORTH JERSEY | $3,600 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE | $2,500 |
| CETANA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (MYANMAR) | $2,000 |
| CATSKILL WATER DISCOVERY CENTER- HANFORD MILLS MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| MARGARETVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS | $2,000 |
| CONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL | $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 (FY19–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 46% of Pasternak Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 37% of the giving stays in NJ; read by stated purpose it is 4% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +52% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- SNSUNY NEW PALTZ FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $330k · revenue +129%
- MPM-ARK PROJECT INC3× · 2017–2019 · $62k · revenue +148%
- HSHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MIDDLETOWN & WALLKILL2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +34% · 69% of their budget
Funded once
- HVHUDSON VALLEY INTL FESTIVAL OF THE VOICEone grant, 2024 · $25k
- IFISHA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +155%
- MPMARK PROJECT (GENERAL)one grant, 2020 · $10k
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 support cancer research in israel, for the benefit of israel and all mankind.
Since its founding, over 120 years ago, as a medical dispensary to meet the needs of the impoverished and underserved jewish community of the lower east side, beth israel medical center has been committed to the care of persons of all…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art
The foundation was established in 1995 to raise funds to find better treatments and cures for the movement disorders associated with dystonia and parkinson's disease and for medical research related to these diseases.
To reduce and eliminate group prejudice and group discrimination and to encourage healthy intergroup, inter-racial, inter-religious and other human relationships.
Managing endowment funds for hebrew health care and affiliates.
The american friends of beit issie shapiro (afobis) is a national not for profit fundraising organization with regional offices in new york city, north miami beach, fl and los angeles, ca. afobis is dedicated to supporting beit issie…
Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Home Foundation of North Jersey and the most unlike its peers is The Onyx and Breezy 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.
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 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
26 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. 26 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.
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 SUNY NEW PALTZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds M-ARK PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MIDDLETOWN & WALLKILL ↗
- Who funds CATSKILL REVITALIZATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ARTS INN COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds ISHA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION OF NORTH JERSEY ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds Belleayre Conservatory Inc ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Migdal OHR ↗
- Who funds HOLY NAME MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL SPORTS & CULTURAL EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds MARY'S PLACE BY THE SEA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE ↗
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: A Lindsay & Olive B O'Connor Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Alan and Elisa Pines Family Foundation Inc · Fjc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Pasternak 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.
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.