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Stuart and Nicole Kovensky Family 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.

$84k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of STUART AND NICOLE KOVENSKY FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
$700
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RALLY TO GIVE FOUNDATION INC$28,750
CTC ACADEMY$15,300
KENYA DRYLANDS EDUCATION FUND$12,000
MOUNT KISCO CHILDREN CARE CENTER$9,570
CONGREGATION B'NAI YISRAEL$5,266
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$3,000
PAN MASS CHALLENGEJIMMY FUND$1,266
TINA'S WISH$1,000
GO FUND ME$1,000
WHIPPOORWILL CLUB FOUNDATION$1,000
SAVE THE SOUND$1,000
SOUTHERN VERMONT HEALTH CENTER$700
VERMONT FOODBANK$600
SAVE THE CHILDREN$590
Individual grant recipient$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, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SUNRISE DAY CAMP: $300 → 6%THE RIVER FUND: $1k → 13%DEERFIELD VALLEY COMMUNITY CARES: $800 → 11%SUNRISE DAY CAMP: $100 → 6%DEERFIELD VALLEY COMMUNITY CARES: $200 → 11%MERCY FIRST: $10k → 6%DEERFIELD VALLEY COMMUNITY CARES: $150 → 11%MERCY FIRST: $60 → 6%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%MID ISLAND Y JCC: $1k → 6%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%MID ISLAND Y JCC: $317 → 6%COVENANT HOUSE: $735 → 17%MOUNT KISCO CHILDREN CARE CENTER: $10k → 9%MOUNT KISCO CHILDREN CARE CENTER: $2k → 9%MOUNT KISCO CHILDREN CARE CENTER: $1k → 9%MOUNT KISCO CHILDREN CARE CENTER: $1k → 9%MOUNT KISCO CHILDREN CARE CENTER: $500 → 9%BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION: $525 → 17%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

VT
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
DE
TN
SC
DC
OK
GA
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$602k · 65 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

65 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
72

Total granted

$602k
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+12%

Still filing today

63%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

  • TR
    The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc
    5× · 2017–2022 · $129k · revenue +24%
  • RT
    RALLY TO GIVE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $53k · revenue +10%
  • TC
    THE CTC ACADEMY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • NY
    New York Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +45%
  • OO
    ONLY ONE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +627%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $5k

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
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
2
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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3
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

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
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
6
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
7
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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8
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
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is We the Protesters Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rally to Give 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Cancer Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Equine Therapy ProgramsSchool District FoundationsLocal History MuseumsAnimal Rescue and ShelterFood Banks and PantriesCommunity Arts CentersPolicy Research and Advocacy
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 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr19%29%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%12%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%33%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/94
the rest of the field
10%
11,857/120,666

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

92 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. 92 of the 142 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/92
Grantees still filing
67/92
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONGREGATION B NAI YISRAEL OF ARMONK — $98,637 · OtherCONGREGATION B NAI YISRAEL OF ARMONKRALLY TO GIVE FOUNDATION INC — $52,900 · OtherRALLY TO GIVE FOUNDATION INCBINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY — $41,000 · OtherBINGHAMTON UNIVERSITYPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $17,671 · OtherCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $14,155 · Other+82 more — $116,595 · Other+82 moreThe Rippowam Cisqua School Inc — $128,600 · EducationThe Rippowam Cisqua School IncTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $55,709 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $19,750 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOU…New York University — $19,634 · EducationNew York University+7 more — $11,210 · EducationTHE CTC ACADEMY INC — $26,120 · HealthTHE CTC AC…BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $19,000 · HealthBOB WOODRU…NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC — $5,523 · HealthNATIONAL P…Connecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge — $4,960 · HealthConnecticu…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $3,219 · HealthNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $2,500 · HealthKIDS KICKING CANCER INC — $2,401 · Health+12 more — $7,485 · Health+12 moreMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $22,740 · Human ServicesMOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER — $13,570 · Human ServicesMERCYFIRST — $10,060 · Human Services+6 more — $5,179 · Human ServicesKenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc — $16,120 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF — $1,024 · International+3 more — $1,280 · InternationalPROTECT OUR WINTERS — $6,000 · EnvironmentONLY ONE INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUND — $2,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $1,500 · EnvironmentRIVERKEEPER INC — $1,300 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $1,000 · Environment+2 more — $950 · EnvironmentNETWORK FOR GOOD — $5,374 · Public Safety & DisasterFDNY FOUNDATION INC — $3,200 · Public Safety & DisasterSTAYIN' ALIVE INC — $2,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$340,958Education$234,903Health$71,208Human Services$51,549International$18,424Environment$17,750Public Safety & Disaster$10,574

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 budgetThe Rippowam Cisqua School Inc — $128,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $55,709 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRALLY TO GIVE FOUNDATION INC — $52,900 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetTHE CTC ACADEMY INC — $26,120 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $22,740 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $19,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University — $19,634 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $17,671 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc — $16,120 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER — $13,570 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMERCYFIRST — $10,060 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $5,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC — $5,523 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $5,374 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBEDFORD PLAYHOUSE INC — $5,360 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetConnecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge — $4,960 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBYRAM HILLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $4,290 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $3,219 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFDNY FOUNDATION INC — $3,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK — $3,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWHIPPOORWILL CLUB INCORPORATED — $2,959 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS KICKING CANCER INC — $2,401 over 3y, 0.0% of budget(914) CARES INC — $2,050 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSTAYIN' ALIVE INC — $2,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG — $1,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN MONTESSORI SOCIETY INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERSCHOOL ORCHESTRAS OF NEW YORK INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMID-ISLAND Y JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN — $1,369 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF GREATER NEW YORK CITY INC — $1,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDEERFIELD VALLEY COMMUNITY CARES — $1,150 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK — $1,130 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILL FOUNDATION — $1,068 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT VERNON NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC — $1,041 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURTLE BAY EXPLORATION PARK — $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $1,024 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWE THE PROTESTERS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWNET — $1,000 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Thomas and Agnes …United Way of Westche…Synchrony FoundationNina W Werblow Charit…Heidecorn Family Foun…National Philanthropi…Viking Global Foundat…Chubb Charitable Foun…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…American Express Foun…
Jewish Communal FundNY19.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation · United Way of Westchester and Putnam · Synchrony Foundation · Nina W Werblow Charitable Trust · Heidecorn Family Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · American Express 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 Stuart and Nicole Kovensky Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Chill Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
19report 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, 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 142 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines