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Rifkind Family 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 $10k5 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ECLIVIBES | $13,000 |
| NYU STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $10,000 |
| ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| The Brick Clay Studio & Gallery | $5,000 |
| Immigration Legal Services | $5,000 |
| ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NYC | $3,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES | $2,000 |
| GALLERY NORTH | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- ATASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +22%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +102%- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $18k
- AJAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +33%
- VNVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORKone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -43%
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.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
As noted in its articles of incorporation, the mission of the aclu is "to maintain and advance civil liberties, including, without limitation, the freedoms of association, press, religion and speech, and the rights to the franchise, to due…
Legal services nyc is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in new york city. a community-based organization serving more than 100,000 people annually, lsnyc is the nation's largest…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Preservation of civil liberties through advocacy and lobbying.
Mission - the aclu of maine works to support bills that advance civil rights and civil liberties and oppose bills that would curtail them. we also provide voter education about how to vote and voting rights at the polls. we do not endorse…
To use investigative journalism through the prism of new york city to identify urban problems, examine their causes. explore solutions, and equip communities to tak action
Psc is a labor union that represents nearly 30,000 active and retired faculty and staff at cuny and the cuny research foundation. the psc's mission is to advance the professional lives of our members, enhance their terms and conditions of…
Ccr is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the united states constitution the universal declaration of human rights. ccr stands with social justice movements…
To defend and promote civil rights and civil liberties.
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights First and the most unlike its peers is Municipal Art Society of New York. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 30 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 ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERMENT COLLABORATIVE OF LONG ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Advocates for Children of New York ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST ↗
- Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Municipal Art Society of New York ↗
- Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PATHLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds MIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE LIVING CITY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds GALLERY NORTH INC ↗
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: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Rifkind Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Center for Human Development Inc — 26% of income from government
- Valley Opportunity Council Inc — 25% 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.
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