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Robert F Cummings Jr Foundation at a glance

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Robert F Cummings Jr 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.

$91k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$179kEducation$78kHuman Services$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kAnimals$10kArts & Culture$4kPhilanthropy$3kRecreation & Sports$250Other$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $78k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$127k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hospital For Special Nursing$32,500
NYU Langone Health System$25,000
Alternative School for Math and Science$20,000
Nightingale Bamford School$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
The James C Ferrer Education Fund Inc$2,500
Schwarzman Animal Medical Center$2,000
The Thirteen$1,000
Mohonasen Foundation for Excellence$500
South Florida PBS$100
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 (FY20–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Brooklyn Community Services: $3k → 20%180 Turning Lives Around Inc: $1k → 6%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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$182k · 8 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
21

Total granted

$182k
$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+13%

Still filing today

75%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +33%
  • TA
    THE ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL FOR MATH AND SCIENCE
    3× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +24%
  • MF
    MOHONASEN FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • NU
    NYU UROLOGY RESEARCH PROGRAM
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • NL
    NYU Langone Health
    one grant, 2022 · $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
Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health
2
Brookhaven Health Care Services Corp

The goals and objectives of the foundation are as follows:to support the mission and charitable purposes of nyulhs, nyu langone hospitals ("nyulh"), lich and the medical schools owned and operated by new york university (collectively, "nyu…

Health
3
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
South Shore University Hospital

South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
10
Northwell Health Foundation

Northwell health foundation inc. is dedicated toward helping donors, patients, and leaders link their vision and philanthropic support toward helping the underserved and uninsured, advancing the latest frontiers in medical technology and…

Health
11
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
12
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mohonasen Foundation for Excellence. 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

17 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. 17 of the 31 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)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Hospital For Special Nursing: $47,500 · OtherHospital For Special NursingIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNYU UROLOGY RESEARCH PROGRAM: $25,000 · OtherNYU UROLOGY RESEARCH PROGRAMNYU Langone Health: $25,000 · OtherNYU Langone HealthUNION COLLEGE: $20,000 · OtherUNION COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · Other+13 more: $25,865 · Other+13 moreNYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM: $75,000 · HealthNYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM+1 more: $2,500 · HealthTHE ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL FOR MATH AND SCIENCE: $40,000 · EducationTHE ALTERNATIVE…THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationTHE NIGHTINGALE…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationJUNO BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE JAMES C FERRER EDUCATIONAL FUNDINC (FORMERLY SHINNECOCK HILLS EDUCATIONAL ): $6,500 · PhilanthropyNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $2,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $4,500 · AnimalsBROOKLYN BUREAU OF COMMUNITY SERVICE: $2,500 · Human Services180 TURNING LIVES AROUND: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$175,365Health$77,500Education$46,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Philanthropy$9,500Animals$4,500Human Services$3,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL FOR MATH AND SCIENCE: $40,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetJUNO BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetTHE JAMES C FERRER EDUCATIONAL FUNDINC (FORMERLY SHINNECOCK HILLS EDUCATIONAL ): $6,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST PATRICK'S DAY PARADE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BUREAU OF COMMUNITY SERVICE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOHONASEN FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE: $1,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budget180 TURNING LIVES AROUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THIRTEEN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARL SCHURZ PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $115 over 2y, 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.

National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving 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 Robert F Cummings Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert F Cummings Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 61%
  • 180 Turning Lives Around: 61% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Robert F Cummings Jr Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robert F Cummings Jr 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 31 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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