· Private foundation
Sussman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $119k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY ILR | $26,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $25,000 |
| WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND | $15,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERNCENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $7,500 |
| ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND | $5,500 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| HUDSON RIVER PARK FRIENDS | $5,000 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY | $5,000 |
| NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN | $5,000 |
| CENTURION MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- CHCHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC7× · 2017–2023 · $85k · revenue +96%
- FFFoundation for Morristown Medical Center6× · 2018–2025 · $69k · revenue +83%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC5× · 2021–2025 · $68k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- NLNYU LANGONE HEALTH-BREAST CANCER CENTERone grant, 2023 · $13k
- JGJOHNSON GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENTone grant, 2019 · $8k
- MRMIAMI RESTAURANT EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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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.
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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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Rights Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Food Bank Network of Somerset County 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 40 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 93 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 CHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds CENTURION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
- Who funds VOTERIDERS ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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.
Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Sussman 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Raritan Headwaters Association — 94% of income from government
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc — 4% of income from government
- Grounds for Sculpture Inc — 1% of income from government
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.