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Sussman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$235k
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$463kEducation$275kArts & Culture$194kCivil Rights$127kCrime & Legal$82kEnvironment$47kFood & Nutrition$44kRecreation & Sports$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k40 grants · $119k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $116k
$2,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$404k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FAIR ELECTION CENTER$5,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$5,000
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC$5,000
CENTURION MINISTRIES$5,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY$5,000
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE SEEING EYE: $3k → 4%THE SEEING EYE: $3k → 4%THE SEEING EYE: $1k → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
NY
MA
IN
NJ
CA
UT
VA
MD
NC
DC
LA
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 60 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
29

Total granted

$1.3M
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+26%

Still filing today

72%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCivil RightsInternationalHealthEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CH
    CHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $85k · revenue +96%
  • FF
    Foundation for Morristown Medical Center
    6× · 2018–2025 · $69k · revenue +83%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $68k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HEALTH-BREAST CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
  • JG
    JOHNSON GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
  • NP
    NJ PANDEMIC RELIEF FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
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.

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4
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
5
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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6
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
7
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
8
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
9
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
10
Manhattanville University

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

Education
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Rights Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
45/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CORNELL UNIVERSITY ILR: $172,500 · OtherCORNELL UNIVERSITY ILRMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $145,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $49,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $47,500 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGECENTURION MINISTRIES INC: $32,500 · Other+46 more: $254,708 · Other+46 moreFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $68,500 · HealthFoundation for …PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC: $67,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTH…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $40,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTH…+3 more: $13,000 · Health+3 moreNew York Historical Society: $36,500 · Arts & CultureNew York Hist…NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $28,243 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $26,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN …THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $19,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMO…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $12,500 · Arts & CultureThe United St…FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF TH…ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureALVIN AILEY D…+8 more: $25,900 · Arts & Culture+8 moreNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $60,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL …EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $30,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTIC…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $20,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMAT…AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: $14,000 · Civil RightsAMERICANS UN…CHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC: $13,500 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S R…VOTERIDERS: $12,500 · Civil RightsVOTERIDERS+2 more: $10,000 · Civil Rights+2 moreCHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $84,500 · InternationalCHRISTEL H…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $14,500 · InternationalWORLD CENT…HIAS INC: $12,500 · InternationalHIAS INCMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,000 · InternationalMEDECINS S…The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $5,000 · International+2 more: $3,000 · InternationalTHE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $13,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $4,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $1,000 · Food & NutritionTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $32,500 · Membership Benefit+1 more: $100 · Membership Benefit
Other$701,208Health$189,000Arts & Culture$171,643Civil Rights$160,000International$127,500Food & Nutrition$38,500Membership Benefit$32,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $84,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $68,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC: $67,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $60,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $36,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTURION MINISTRIES INC: $32,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $32,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $28,243 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $26,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $20,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $19,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $16,375 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $14,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $13,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC: $13,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $12,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVOTERIDERS: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $12,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $9,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC: $5,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYOR'S ALLIANCE FOR NYC'S ANIMALS INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW JERSEY FORESTRY ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds VOTERIDERS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
  • Who funds HIAS INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY16× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sussman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sussman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 93 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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