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Sagalyn Family Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$170k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$229kArts & Culture$215kHuman Services$152kYouth Development$114kCrime & Legal$105kPublic Benefit$68kHealth$67kFood & Nutrition$32kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $101k
$4,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$985k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ESSENTIAL PARTNERS INC$20,000
VOCEL VIEWING OUR CHILDREN AS EMERGING LEADERS$20,000
CENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION$20,000
GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC$16,000
TREVOR PROJECT INC$15,000
BUIILD INC$10,000
TEACHERS OF GOD FOUNDATION$9,800
FILM AT LINOLN CENTER INC$8,000
KEEP RISING TO THE TOP$7,000
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY$6,500
FILM FORUM INC$6,000
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION$5,000
THE 100 HORSES WOMENS SOCIETY$4,000
MAINE BOYS TO MEN$3,500
COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC (CHIPS)$3,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $174k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%REZ REFUGE: $2k → 28%ESSENTIAL PARTNERS INC: $20k → 8%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC: $16k → 20%ESSENTIAL PARTNERS INC: $17k → 8%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $12k → 20%ESSENTIAL PARTNERS INC: $4k → 8%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $11k → 20%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $9k → 20%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $8k → 20%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $7k → 20%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $6k → 20%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $5k → 20%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%TIMOTHY COMMUNITY CORPORATION NFP: $2k → 14%CHIPS: $500 → 20%BRAVER ANGELS: $27k → 17%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $2k → 14%BRAVER ANGELS: $4k → 17%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $3k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
MN
IL
NY
MA
SD
IN
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
LA
AL
GA

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$897k · 46 repeat orgs$217k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
52

Total granted

$897k
$166k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+46%

Still filing today

67%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCivil RightsHealthOther

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

  • TP
    THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +60%
  • MC
    MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $68k · revenue +47%
  • VV
    Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders
    8× · 2017–2024 · $64k · revenue +311%

Funded once

  • GO
    GETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +75%
  • S
    Storycatchers
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -69%
  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +101%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
2
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
7
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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10
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
11
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
12
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Be Heard Institute and the most unlike its peers is Girls Education Initiative of Ghana Us 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPregnancy Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersYouth Development ServicesCancer Support ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportPublic Library OperationsLocal History MuseumsEnvironmental Conservation …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community FoundationsDance Arts OrganizationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%39%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%21%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/76
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,489

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.

04the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 111 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/73
Grantees still filing
53/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GET OUT STAY OUT — $40,000 · OtherGET OUT STAY OUTIndividual grant recipient — $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNYU EDELMAN LECTURE SERIES — $30,000 · OtherNYU EDELMAN LECTURE SERIESBUILD INC — $19,000 · OtherStorycatchers — $15,000 · OtherThe Simple Good — $14,500 · OtherNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP — $20,000 · OtherNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP+57 more — $178,575 · Other+57 moreMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION — $67,500 · EducationMIKVA CHALLENGE GRAN…KEEP RISING TO THE TOP — $38,500 · EducationKEEP RISING TO THE T…New York University — $30,000 · EducationNew York UniversityBARD COLLEGE — $19,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGESUPPORTING LITERACY AND MATH — $13,400 · EducationSUPPORTING LITERACY …HIGH JUMP — $12,500 · EducationHIGH JUMPBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $11,500 · EducationBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBR…+4 more — $4,500 · EducationGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC — $72,500 · Human ServicesGROUNDSWELL COMMU…ESSENTIAL PARTNERS INC — $41,400 · Human ServicesESSENTIAL PARTNER…Braver AngelsInc — $30,500 · Human ServicesBraver AngelsIncWASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON AREA W…+6 more — $9,500 · Human Services+6 moreTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION — $71,320 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILLIPS …FILM FORUM INC — $18,550 · Arts & CultureFILM FORUM IN…FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $14,000 · Arts & CultureFILM AT LINCO…GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $7,020 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHI…+7 more — $17,100 · Arts & Culture+7 moreVocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders — $64,000 · Youth DevelopmentVocel Viewin…MAINE BOYS TO MEN — $57,500 · Youth DevelopmentMAINE BOYS T…GETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC — $30,000 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION — $20,000 · Crime & LegalTHE BRONX DEFENDERS — $11,900 · Crime & LegalRECIPE FOR CHANGE — $11,000 · Crime & LegalEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS — $5,000 · Crime & LegalCOMPASSION PRISON PROJECT — $3,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $500 · Crime & LegalTREVOR PROJECT INC — $27,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $13,000 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC — $8,000 · Civil RightsHEARTLAND ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL INC — $5,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE — $2,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $1,000 · Civil Rights
Other$357,075Education$196,900Human Services$173,900Arts & Culture$127,990Youth Development$121,500Crime & Legal$81,400Civil Rights$56,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC — $72,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION — $71,320 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION — $67,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders — $64,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetMAINE BOYS TO MEN — $57,500 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetESSENTIAL PARTNERS INC — $41,400 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetKEEP RISING TO THE TOP — $38,500 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetBraver AngelsInc — $30,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNew York University — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $27,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP — $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBUILD INC — $19,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $19,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFILM FORUM INC — $18,550 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetStorycatchers — $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Simple Good — $14,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUPPORTING LITERACY AND MATH — $13,400 over 2y, 20% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH JUMP — $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BRONX DEFENDERS — $11,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRECIPE FOR CHANGE — $11,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR AWAKENING INC — $9,800 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSOME INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $7,020 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDream of Wild Health — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLAND ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOETS HOUSE INC — $4,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 100 HORSES WOMEN'S SOCIETY INC — $4,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetThe People's Music School — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SENTENCING PROJECT — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION PRISON PROJECT — $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLL Society — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

John D and Catherine …The Chicago Community…Polk Bros Foundation …Arie and Ida Crown Me…United Way of Metropo…The Ford FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…Tides FoundationImc Chicago Charitabl…Lloyd a Fry FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…The Hyde and Watson F…
John D and Catherine T Macarthur FoundationIL19.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Tides Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation

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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Sagalyn Family Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 111 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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