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Susan & Leonard Feinstein 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.

$4.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$21MArts & Culture$3.8MInternational$2.9MPhilanthropy$749kReligion$511kEducation$392kCivil Rights$354kFood & Nutrition$345kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 46 grants below total $3,801,400 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,226,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $425,350 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 $10k20 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $242k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $732k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.8M
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research$2,500,000
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research$300,000
Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County$150,000
The Washington Institute$100,000
Central Fund of Israel$100,000
American Israel Education Foundation$75,000
Operation Lifeshield$56,500
Anti-Defamation League$50,000
New Museum of Contemporary Art$50,000
Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital Foundation$50,000
American Friends of Leket Israel$50,000
American Ballet Theater$50,000
PEF: Israel Endowment Funds, Inc.$25,000
Gift of Life Bone Marrow$25,000
Berkshire Hills Eisenberg Camp$25,000
02Your 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$26M · 90 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

90 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
89

Total granted

$26M
$4.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+28%

Still filing today

68%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

  • TF
    THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH
    6× · 2017–2025 · $16M · revenue +42%
  • NM
    New Museum of Contemporary Art
    6× · 2019–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +2%
  • WI
    WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $625k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • FI
    Feinstein Institutes for Med Research
    one grant, 2020 · $2.5M
  • MS
    Mt Sinai Medical Center
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +19%

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

03Your 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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
3
New York University

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.

Education
4
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
5
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
6
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
7
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
8
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
10
Staten Island University Hospital

Staten island university hospital is an affiliate within northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…

Health
11
South Shore University Hospital

South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
12
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation 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 AffiliatesGovernment Accountability &…Community Theater CompaniesVolunteer Fire & RescueYouth Sports ProgramsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Animal Rescue and ShelterDevelopmental Disabilities …Local History MuseumsCivil Legal ServicesCharter and Independent Sch…Childhood Cancer SupportEnvironmental Advocacy and …Community Hospital SystemsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Domestic Violence and Sexua…College Foundation SupportJewish Community FederationsProfessional Dance Companies
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 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr19%8%20–35yr13%79%35–55yr16%10%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 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/110
the rest of the field
10%
11,856/120,650

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.

03the grantee network

107 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. 107 of the 187 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/107
Grantees still filing
72/107
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH — $15,650,000 · HealthTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCHNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $600,000 · Health+19 more — $1,193,750 · Health+19 moreFeinstein Institutes for Med Research — $2,500,000 · OtherFeinstein Institutes for…New Museum of Cont Art — $910,000 · OtherNew Museum of Cont ArtNY Presbyterian Fund — $400,000 · OtherNY Presbyterian FundAmerican Friends of Shalva — $390,000 · OtherAmerican Friends of Shal…Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Northwell Health Foundation — $350,000 · Other+104 more — $2,122,190 · Other+104 moreNew Museum of Contemporary Art — $1,705,000 · Arts & CultureNew Museum…BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $605,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET THE…THE JEWISH MUSEUM — $161,500 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH…+20 more — $362,900 · Arts & Culture+20 moreWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $625,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $525,000 · InternationalFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc — $450,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $380,250 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel — $150,000 · International+5 more — $140,800 · InternationalJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $525,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $345,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $207,030 · PhilanthropySHUVU RETURN INC — $60,000 · PhilanthropyCenter for Entrepreneurial Jewish Philanthropy Inc — $50,000 · Philanthropy+8 more — $122,000 · PhilanthropyICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $200,000 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $150,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE — $35,000 · EducationTHE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC — $35,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF RODEPH SHOLOM SCHOOL INC — $30,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · Education+3 more — $6,000 · EducationANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $350,000 · Civil Rights
Health$17,443,750Other$6,672,190Arts & Culture$2,834,400International$2,271,050Philanthropy$1,309,030Education$531,000Civil Rights$350,000

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 budgetTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH — $15,650,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art — $1,705,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $625,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $605,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $600,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $525,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $525,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc — $450,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $400,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $380,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $350,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $345,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $242,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $207,030 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFeinstein Health Fund Inc — $200,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $161,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $136,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION INC — $105,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Safe Center LI Inc — $76,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM — $72,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMy Sisters Place Inc — $70,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSHUVU RETURN INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $56,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLEDGE SCHOOL — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $42,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Society Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF RODEPH SHOLOM SCHOOL INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Inc — $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHUNTINGTON FINE ARTS INSTITUTE LTD — $20,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $16,000 over 6y, 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 THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH
  • Who funds New Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY
  • Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC
  • Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc
  • Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC
  • Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC
  • Who funds Feinstein Health Fund Inc
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
  • Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM
  • Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel
  • Who funds JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds The Safe Center LI Inc
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM
  • Who funds My Sisters Place Inc
  • Who funds SHUVU RETURN INC

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 FundNY27.2× affinity19 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 · Mitzi & Warren Eisenberg Family Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Bahnik Foundation Inc · Jeffrey & Debra Feinstein Foundation · The Roger Rechler Foundation · Rita and Frank Castagna Family Foundation Inc · Robert & Roni Lemle Family Foundation · The Marie and Paul Napoli Foundation · Rechler Philanthropy · The Donald and Barbara Zucker Family 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Susan & Leonard Feinstein Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Susan & Leonard Feinstein 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 187 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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