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Sol & Hermina Cantor Foundation

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.

$91k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$48k
Largest
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 FY20172024.

Health$99kPhilanthropy$72kArts & Culture$32kFood & Nutrition$8kHuman Services$7kEducation$7kCivil Rights$4kReligion$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $81k
$1,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE - WARREN & BARBARA COHEN CHARITABLE FUND$47,586
FIDELITY CHARITABLE - CANTOR LEVINE GIVING TRUST$18,082
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$15,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$1,900
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$1,500
FOOD FOR THE POOR$1,000
CHABAD HOUSE$1,000
ST FINBAR RC CHURCH$300
TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY ANNUAL FUND$100
MERCY HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS$50
Individual grant recipient$25
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 (FY17–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%A SOLDIER'S CHILD FOUNDATION: $50 → 9%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $500 → 11%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

WA
MI
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$153k · 36 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
41

Total granted

$153k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+16%

Still filing today

50%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
HealthInternationalArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther

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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    8× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +202%
  • MF
    MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $6k · revenue +18%
  • NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC
    2× · 2019–2023 · $5k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLAON KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • PS
    PHIL SCHAPP JAZZ PRESERVATION AT VANDERBUILT UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISREAL PHILHARMONIC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k

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
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
2
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
3
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
4
Stony Brook Orthopedic 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
5
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
6
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

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
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
9
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
10
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
11
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

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

Health
12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York Historical Society. 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 backsteadyUnited Way FederationsCommunity Arts OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Government Accountability R…Veteran Support ServicesFallen First Responder Supp…Community Health CentersJewish Community FederationsChristian Missionary Organi…Elementary Literacy TutoringLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Cancer Support OrganizationsFaith-Based Senior Living
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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%7%20–35yr13%76%35–55yr16%17%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,524

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

40 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 84 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
29/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Michigan — $70,486 · OtherUniversity of MichiganFIDELITY CHARITABLE - WARREN & BARBARA COHEN CHARITABLE FUND — $47,586 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE - WARREN & BARBARA COHEN CHARITABLE FUNDFIDELITY CHARITABLE - CANTOR LEVINE GIVING TRUST — $18,082 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE - CANTOR LEVINE GIVING TRUSTBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC — $9,000 · Other+53 more — $61,651 · Other+53 moreST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $4,500 · Arts & CultureAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra — $1,500 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical Society — $500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $100 · Arts & CultureFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $8,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $475 · International+4 more — $375 · InternationalCOPD FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $2,000 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital — $1,000 · HealthJupiter Medical Center Inc — $1,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $600 · HealthRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC — $600 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $250 · Health+1 more — $50 · HealthTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $3,500 · EducationBEHIND THE BOOK INC — $1,700 · EducationYOUTH RENEWAL FUND — $600 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $500 · EducationMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 · Human Services+1 more — $50 · Human ServicesTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $2,600 · PhilanthropyBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $500 · Philanthropy
Other$206,805Arts & Culture$14,100International$8,850Health$7,500Education$6,300Human Services$5,550Philanthropy$3,100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Michigan — $70,486 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC — $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $2,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOPD FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY — $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEHIND THE BOOK INC — $1,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH RENEWAL FUND — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION FINALLY HOME — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $475 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION — $301 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHolocaust Center For Humanity — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOOSTER GROUP INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM BLUELINE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAID FOR STARVING CHILDREN — $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA SOLDIERS CHILD INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $50 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.

  • Who funds University of Michigan
  • Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC
  • Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC
  • Who funds MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
  • Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc
  • Who funds COPD FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC
  • Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY
  • Who funds BEHIND THE BOOK INC
  • Who funds American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital
  • Who funds FRESH AIR FUND
  • Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Inc
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
  • Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC
  • Who funds YOUTH RENEWAL FUND

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.

The Pfizer Foundation IncNY10.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Sol & Hermina Cantor Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children6% of income from government
  • Jupiter Medical Center Inc2% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
7report 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, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to Sol & Hermina Cantor Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sol & Hermina Cantor 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 84 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.

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