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Plm Foundation Philip L Milstein Trustee
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
54% of Plm Foundation Philip L Milstein Trustee’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 20 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Plm Foundation Philip L Milstein Trustee named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $4M. 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $231k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $322k
- $250k+5 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BARNARD COLLEGE | $1,000,000 |
| WNET | $750,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NY INC | $500,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NY INC | $500,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC | $250,000 |
| BARNARD COLLEGE | $197,450 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $75,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $50,000 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $46,250 |
| LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC | $45,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL CENTER OF WHITE PLAINS | $25,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $25,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY IMPACT | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $186k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% 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 +41% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2022, 21 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, 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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k 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
BARNARD COLLEGE5× · 2017–2023 · $5.7M · revenue +60%- LCLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC6× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +45%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC4× · 2021–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +5%
Funded once
- CUCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2017 · $339k
- MOMUSEUM OF AMERICAN REVOLUTIONone grant, 2018 · $100k
- AIAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2020 · $75k
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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.
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
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.
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Access Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mgg 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 41 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 93 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 TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIABARNARD HILLEL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds THE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HARMONIE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS LINK CORP ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SCARSDALE LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds MGG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds MECOX BAY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds DREW HASSENBEIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Smf Foundationtam Inc · United Way Miami Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Cohen Family Foundation Inc · Forward Vision · The Dianne & David Stern Foundation · The V & L Marx Foundation · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Robin Hood 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 Plm Foundation Philip L Milstein Trustee 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.
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Hancock Shaker Village Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% 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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