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Plm Foundation Philip L Milstein Trustee at a glance

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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.

$3.6M
Granted FY2022
21
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

20
’17
35
’18
10
’20
16
’21
13
’22
9
’23
20
’24

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

01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$15MArts & Culture$4.9MPhilanthropy$2.4MHealth$1.4MInternational$405kReligion$205kCivil Rights$115kPublic Safety & Disaster$110kOther$0
02FY2022 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $231k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $322k
  • $250k+5 grants · $3.0M
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$25,000
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$25,000
TEMPLE ISRAEL CENTER OF WHITE PLAINS$25,000
THE JED FOUNDATION$10,000
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SCARSDALE EDGEMONT FAMILY COUNSELING: $1k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $10k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $10k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%NEIGHBORS LINK: $10k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $5k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%COMMUNITY IMPACT: $10k → 17%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: $5k → 17%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: $10k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $10k → 17%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: $5k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $1k → 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

WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 32 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +35% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
45

Total granted

$15M
$977k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+35%

Still filing today

75%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BARNARD COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2023 · $5.7M · revenue +60%
  • LC
    LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +45%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • CU
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $339k
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • AI
    AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
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
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
2
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
3
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
4
New York Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
5
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
6
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

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.

Civil Rights
7
The Architectural League of New York

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…

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8
Manhattanville University

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

Education
9
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

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…

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10
Manhattan School of Music

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Museum of the City of New York

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Inc

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Access Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 93 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/69
Grantees still filing
53/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $8,195,650 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKBARNARD COLLEGE: $5,698,020 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE+3 more: $95,000 · EducationLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $2,634,125 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR TH…WNET: $1,696,803 · Arts & CultureWNET+14 more: $404,775 · Arts & Culture+14 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $2,233,050 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEW…+5 more: $49,000 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBIA COLLEGE: $542,250 · OtherCOLUMBIA C…COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $338,968 · OtherCOLUMBIA U…NYU STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $310,000 · OtherNYU STERN …AIEF: $150,000 · OtherAIEFMUSEUM OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $100,000 · OtherAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FUND: $75,000 · OtherTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $100,000 · Other+39 more: $494,088 · Other+39 moreNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $750,000 · HealthTHE JED FOUNDATION: $130,000 · Health+6 more: $50,500 · HealthAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $50,000 · International+3 more: $30,000 · InternationalAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $35,000 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY IMPACT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human Services
Education$13,988,670Arts & Culture$4,735,703Philanthropy$2,282,050Other$2,210,306Health$930,500International$380,000Human Services$186,000

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 TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $8,195,650 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $5,698,020 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $2,634,125 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $2,233,050 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWNET: $1,696,803 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $750,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $155,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIABARNARD HILLEL INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHARMONIE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $34,275 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SCARSDALE LIBRARY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMECOX BAY CONSERVANCY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREW HASSENBEIN FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT LYME: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOPD FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY IMPACT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSCARSDALE VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHancock Shaker Village Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Smf Foundationtam IncUnited Way Miami IncJpmorgan Chase Founda…Cohen Family Foundati…Forward VisionThe Dianne & David St…The V & L Marx Founda…The Trustees of Colum…Robin Hood Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY27× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Plm Foundation Philip L Milstein Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Plm Foundation Philip L Milstein Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 Plm Foundation Philip L Milstein Trustee?

Find your warmest path to Plm Foundation Philip L Milstein Trustee 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 93 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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