· Private foundation
Richard Ann John & James Solomon Families 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k45 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $25,000 |
| UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $20,000 |
| COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $14,700 |
| CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL | $10,000 |
| THE FUND FOR EMANU-EL | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NEW YORK CITY | $9,720 |
| SMITH COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL PHILANTHROPIC FUND | $3,600 |
| NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE | $3,500 |
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| TEMPLE EMANU-EL | $3,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,500 |
| STUDENT ADVOCACY | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 14 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2025 · $129k · revenue +37%- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +46%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- JDJOHN D SOLOMON FUND FOR PUBLIC SERVICE AT NY COMMUNITY TRUSTone grant, 2022 · $35k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- CCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +5%
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.
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
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…
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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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."
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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…
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
How this is measured
60 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. 60 of the 85 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard Ann John & James Solomon Families Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard Ann John & James Solomon Families Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- Sea Turtle Conservancy: 1% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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