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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.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$114kCivil Rights$110kHuman Services$101kEducation$90kPublic Benefit$78kArts & Culture$27kCrime & Legal$25kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$823k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ECLIVIBES$13,000
ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN$10,000
NYU STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS$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
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%MIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC: $3k → 20%CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: $1k → 17%CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: $1k → 17%VALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $2k → 17%VALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $2k → 17%FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE OLSTEN FAMILY C: $7k → 7%ECLIVIBES: $25k → 7%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $10k → 17%ECLIVIBES: $13k → 7%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $10k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $5k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $5k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $5k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $5k → 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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$485k · 17 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
10

Total granted

$485k
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+33%

Still filing today

65%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalHealthCivil RightsInternationalOther
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

  • AT
    ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN
    6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +22%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +102%
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $18k
  • AJ
    AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +33%
  • VN
    VISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -43%
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
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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2
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
3
American Civil Liberties Union Inc

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…

—
4
Legal Services Nyc

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…

Crime & Legal
5
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

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…

Health
6
American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through advocacy and lobbying.

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7
American Civil Liberties Union of Maine

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…

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8
City Limits News Inc

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

Public Benefit
9
Professional Staff Congress Cuny

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…

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10
Center for Constitutional Rights

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…

Civil Rights
11
New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation

To defend and promote civil rights and civil liberties.

Civil Rights
12
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights First; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE: $75,000 · OtherREPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THEECLIVIBS: $70,000 · OtherECLIVIBSNYU STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $60,000 · OtherNYU STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESSAMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF: $20,000 · OtherAMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OFIndividual grant recipient: $18,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $20,000 · OtherTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC+9 more: $46,000 · Other+9 moreASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $40,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION TO BEN…EMPOWERMENT COLLABORATIVE OF LONG ISLAND INC: $38,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWERMENT COLLAB…FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE LEA…VALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $4,000 · Human Services+2 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $30,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN P…Advocates for Children of New York: $25,000 · Crime & LegalAdvocates …PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $30,000 · HealthVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK: $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMunicipal Art Society of New York: $5,000 · Arts & CultureGALLERY NORTH INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $20,000 · International
Other$309,000Human Services$94,000Crime & Legal$55,000Health$40,000Civil Rights$30,000Arts & Culture$22,000International$20,000

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 budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWERMENT COLLABORATIVE OF LONG ISLAND INC: $38,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAdvocates for Children of New York: $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMunicipal Art Society of New York: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPATHLIGHT INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE LIVING CITY: $2,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGALLERY NORTH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY10.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Rifkind Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rifkind Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 26%
  • Center for Human Development Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Valley Opportunity Council Inc: 25% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Rifkind Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rifkind 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 30 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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