· Private foundation
Richard and Bette Saltzman 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 $10k18 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION | $120,737 |
| UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $83,330 |
| I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION | $80,884 |
| I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION | $43,382 |
| UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $21,136 |
| EDGARTOWN GREAT POND FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CITY MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SIGNATURE THEATER INC | $5,000 |
| NASSAU SUFFOLK SERVICES FOR AUTISM | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL C | $3,600 |
| JEWISH MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM | $1,700 |
| MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN | $1,700 |
| FEATHERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of your 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 +58% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 53 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- IHI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +153%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC8× · 2018–2025 · $903k · revenue +22%
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE8× · 2017–2024 · $228k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
- FCFERGUSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +112%
- ACACCELERATE CHANGE INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -7%
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 new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
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…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan and the most unlike its peers is The Toby Project Inc. 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 42 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) — 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 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.
79 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. 79 of the 114 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 I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds POLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NASSAU SUFFOLK SERVICES FOR THE AUTISTIC INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTSTEPS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds NAROMI LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ART FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SHERMAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds FERGUSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds NOTLEY IMPACT ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC ↗
- Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE SHERMAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
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: Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Ibm International Foundation · Stonehouse Inc · Dmr Family Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc · Swartz Foundation Trust · If Hummingbird Foundation Inc · Rockinghorse Trail Foundation · Permanent Endowment Fund for Martha's Vineyard
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 Richard and Bette Saltzman 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.
- Newark Public Radio Inc — 51% of income from government
- Housatonic Valley Association Inc — 38% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Sherman Chamber Ensemble Inc — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Sail Martha's Vineyard Inc — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Mvyradio Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sherman Volunteer Fire Department — 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.