· Private foundation
Roy J Zuckerberg 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 41 grants below total $3,143,551 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,391,232 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $247,681 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $151k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $770k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Northwell Health Foundation | $1,000,000 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | $900,000 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | $250,000 |
| United Jewish Appeal Federation | $200,000 |
| Community Foundation of Palm Beach | $200,000 |
| Film at Lincoln Center, Inc. | $160,000 |
| Film at Lincoln Center, Inc | $100,000 |
| Film at Lincoln Center, Inc. | $60,000 |
| Peconic Land Trust | $50,000 |
| National Foundation Inc | $34,500 |
| Park Avenue Synagogue Inc | $25,000 |
| Zucker School of Medicine | $25,000 |
| Northwell Health Foundation | $25,000 |
| New York Landmarks Conservancy | $19,000 |
| Metro Museum of Art | $12,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 10 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k 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
- NHNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $12M · revenue +6%
- CSCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY5× · 2020–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +26%
- FAFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC5× · 2020–2025 · $826k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- LCLincoln Centre For The Performing Artsone grant, 2022 · $285k
- UOUniversity of MAone grant, 2020 · $200k
- AAJCone grant, 2020 · $150k
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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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."
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
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.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Priscilla & Richard J Schmeelk Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
96 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. 96 of the 155 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 NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PECONIC LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds National Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Old Westbury Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds PHIPPS HOUSES ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Ashner Family Evergreen Foundation · The Barry S Sternlicht Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Barbara Hope Foundation Inc · Peggy N & Roger G Gerry Charitable · Walentas Foundation Ltd
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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Roy J Zuckerberg Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Roy J Zuckerberg 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.