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Richard & Jane Katzman Foundation

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.

$180k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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93% of Richard & Jane Katzman Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Brown University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’18
10
’19
13
’20
13
’21
12
’22
3
’23
12
’24

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

Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,775
Organizations funded a year
4 to 23
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Richard & Jane Katzman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionCrime & LegalInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving15$13k27%
FY20234$2k25%
FY202215$7k0%
FY202118$12k11%
FY202018$13k33%
FY201923$27k35%
FY201817$14kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$573kPublic Benefit$30kArts & Culture$23kHuman Services$16kHealth$12kFood & Nutrition$7kInternational$4kEnvironment$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
NJ
RI
VA
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 20 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($57k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richard & Jane Katzman Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRichard M Brodsky Foundation: $6,020 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetThe Partnership to End Homelessness Inc: $3,604 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGod's Love We Deliver Inc: $3,092 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHearts of the Father Outreach Inc: $3,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $2,742 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $2,572 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $1,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank for New York City: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMothers Against Drunk Driving: $1,152 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $768 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGay Men's Health Crisis Inc: $344 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $205 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHudson River Sloop Clearwater Inc: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBridgehampton Volunteer Fire Department: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

Compare Richard & Jane Katzman Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Richard & Jane Katzman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Richard & Jane Katzman Foundation 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.

About Richard & Jane Katzman Foundation

How much does Richard & Jane Katzman Foundation give?
Richard & Jane Katzman Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $179,655 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Richard & Jane Katzman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (85%), Public Benefit (4%), Arts & Culture (3%).
Who are Richard & Jane Katzman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Richard M Brodsky Foundation ($6k), The Partnership to End Homelessness Inc ($4k), God's Love We Deliver Inc ($3k).
Does Richard & Jane Katzman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Richard & Jane Katzman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Richard & Jane Katzman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Richard & Jane Katzman Foundation based?
Richard & Jane Katzman Foundation is based in NY.

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 42 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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