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Robert and Florence Kaufman Foundation at a glance

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Robert and Florence Kaufman Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$751kSocial Science$248kEducation$200kPhilanthropy$127kInternational$120kRecreation & Sports$65kReligion$51kHealth$38kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,064
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION$1,064
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LEARNING ALLY: $200 → 11%ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $1k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $600 → 11%SID JACOBSON JCC: $1k → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 17%DOROT: $500 → 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

NY
MA
NJ
CA
MD
AZ
DC
OK
LA
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 33 repeat orgs$354k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 32 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
51

Total granted

$1.3M
$354k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+58%

Still filing today

85%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsOther
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

  • LC
    LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $335k · revenue +45%
  • TV
    THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER
    2× · 2017–2020 · $139k · revenue +59%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $85k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • HU
    HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY OFFICE FOR DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $152k
  • WI
    WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY
    one grant, 2020 · $99k · revenue +0%
  • WO
    WA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
New York University

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.

Education
3
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
4
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
5
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
6
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
7
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
8
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
9
The Contemporary Jewish Museum

The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.

Arts & Culture
10
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
11
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
12
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum 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

62 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. 62 of the 86 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/62
Grantees still filing
51/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $335,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $138,500 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENT…PALM BEACH OPERA INC: $68,081 · Arts & CulturePALM BEACH OPERA INCTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $46,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUMFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $27,500 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $81,375 · Arts & Culture+12 moreTHE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE NEAR EAST POLICY: $248,475 · OtherTHE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE NEAR EAST POLI…HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY OFFICE FOR DEVELOPMENT: $151,500 · OtherHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY OFFICE FOR DEVELOPME…TEMPLE BETH EL OF GREAT NECK: $50,268 · OtherTEMPLE BETH EL OF GREAT NECKWA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $25,000 · Other+38 more: $96,030 · Other+38 moreWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $99,057 · InternationalWASHINGTON…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $32,500 · InternationalAMERICAN F…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $14,200 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT…+4 more: $4,600 · InternationalUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $85,400 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $12,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropyCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $65,000 · Recreation & SportsNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $13,700 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $5,500 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $2,650 · HealthPROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC: $1,250 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $1,000 · Health+5 more: $1,200 · HealthELMIRA COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $5,000 · EducationREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $3,250 · EducationHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationGILLEN BREWER SCHOOL: $1,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$731,456Other$571,273International$150,357Philanthropy$100,400Recreation & Sports$65,000Health$25,300Education$15,250

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 budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $335,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $138,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $99,057 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $85,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH OPERA INC: $68,081 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $46,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $23,455 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $18,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $14,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $13,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $11,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $11,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $9,564 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $6,048 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELMIRA COLLEGE: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $3,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $3,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $2,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $1,540 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGILLEN BREWER SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FERD AND GLADYS ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICE OF PALM BEACH C OUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $780 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SILVER SHIELD FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rogosin Institute Inc: $500 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.

Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Robert and Florence Kaufman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert and Florence Kaufman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
18report 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.

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 86 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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