· Private foundation
Robert J Cummins Family Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| THE ASIA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CIVICS CENTER | $5,000 |
| BROOKLYN MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| THIRTEENWNET | $3,500 |
| SPENCE SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| THE TAKEOFF INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $2,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| PHILIPS EXETER ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| NYPL- SCHOMBURG CTR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE | $1,000 |
| JAPANESE ART SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
50 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 12 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +52%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +13%
- CPCOMMUNITY PARTNERS6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- TTHIRTEENWNETone grant, 2025 · $4k
- TITAKEOFF INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2025 · $3k · revenue 0%
- AHALEXANDER HAMILTON SCHOLARSone grant, 2025 · $1k
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.
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.
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.
The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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*increase and diffusion of knowledge* is the mission set forth by james smithson. the smithsonian endeavors to shape the future by preserving our heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world.
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How this is measured
45 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. 45 of the 64 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE ART SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK TRACK CLUB CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER HAMILTON SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds RANDALL'S ISLAND PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds TUESDAY'S CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARMORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAKEOFF INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds South End Childrens Cafe Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert J Cummins Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert J Cummins Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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