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Richard Sackler Family Foundation at a glance

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Richard Sackler Family 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.

$870k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$2.7MEducation$1.0MArts & Culture$314kPhilanthropy$304kPublic Benefit$98kInternational$35kAnimals$20kHealth$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
  • $250k+1 grant · $750k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND STRATEGY$750,000
Friends of United Hatzalah$70,000
Adopt-A-Dog$10,000
Animal Rescue K9 Charities INC$10,000
Eisenhower Foundation$10,000
Perrot Memorial Library$10,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$4,000
The Frick Collection$3,000
The Museum of Democracy Inc$2,000
Westchester Children's Museum$675
Stamford Museum Nature Center$300
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 (FY18–20, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE BLUE CARD INC: $200 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $8k → 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

IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
DC
OK
TX
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 6 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
22

Total granted

$3.0M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-25%
+5%

Still filing today

50%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • TI
    THE INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND STRATEGY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.7M · revenue -25% · 100% of their budget
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $170k · revenue -45%
  • EF
    Eisenhower Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $96k

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVER
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +34%
  • HL
    Hannah Lillian Selikoff Memorial Fo
    one grant, 2023 · $125k
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
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
3
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
4
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
5
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
6
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
7
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
8
United States Naval Institute

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.

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9
J Street

To organize pro-israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy americans to promote us policies that embody our deeply held jewish and democratic values and that help secure the state of israel as a democratic homeland for the jewish people.

International
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
11
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is New Wave Artist Residency Inc. 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

22 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. 22 of the 36 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
11/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND STRATEGY: $2,687,500 · Civil RightsTHE INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND STRATEGY+1 more: $4,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVER: $1,000,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UN…Hannah Lillian Selikoff Memorial Fo: $125,000 · OtherHannah Lillian Selikoff Memoria…Eisenhower Foundation: $96,000 · OtherEisenhower Foundation+14 more: $53,114 · OtherUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $300,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $4,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $170,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $8,075 · Arts & CultureBROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION: $25,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $5,000 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST FORUM: $5,000 · International+1 more: $600 · InternationalCURA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $7,500 · Human Services+1 more: $200 · Human ServicesTHE COLUMBIA SCHOOL LINGUISTIC SOCIETY INC: $15,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · Education
Civil Rights$2,691,500Other$1,274,114Philanthropy$304,000Arts & Culture$178,075International$35,600Human Services$17,700Education$15,500

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 INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND STRATEGY: $2,687,500 over 4y, 100% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $170,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLUMBIA SCHOOL LINGUISTIC SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetADOPT-A-DOG INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCURA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Wave Artist Residency Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE EAST FORUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF DEMOCRACY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWESTCHESTER CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $675 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStamford Museum & Nature Center Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLUE CARD INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $100 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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY10.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Richard Sackler Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard Sackler Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc: 9% of income from government
  • United Way of Palm Beach County Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 Richard Sackler Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Richard Sackler Family 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.

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 36 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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