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The Albert and Lin Bildner Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Albert and Lin Bildner Foundation Inc

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.

$81k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$472kArts & Culture$64kInternational$49kRecreation & Sports$13kReligion$12kSocial Science$4kHealth$1kYouth Development$600Other$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$3,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$722k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRADUATE CENTER CUNY$75,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$3,500
12 OTHER MISC CHARITIES$2,299
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHILDRENS ORCHESTRA SOCIETY: $1k → 6%CHILDRENS ORCHESTRA SOCIETY: $4k → 13%CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 8%US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $825 → 14%NATIONAL FEDERATION OF FAA: $11k → 14%CUNY GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%GRADUATE CENTER CUNY: $75k → 17%CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: $75k → 17%CUNY GRADUATE CENTER: $75k → 17%CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: $50k → 17%CUNY GRADUATE CENTER: $50k → 17%CUNY GRADUATE CENTER: $35k → 17%SOUTHAMPTON YOUTH SERVICE: $500 → 7%PATH TO PEACE FOUNDATION: $32k → 17%CUNY GRADUATE CENTER: $30k → 17%THE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION: $30k → 17%PATH TO PEACE FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL: $26k → 17%AMER ASSOC OF BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY: $550 → 17%ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY: $278 → 17%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $1k → 17%CHINA INSTITUTE: $4k → 17%CHILD MIND INSTITUTE: $1k → 17%MISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES: $2k → 17%OTHER MISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES: $580 → 17%12 OTHER MISC CHARITIES: $2k → 17%NEUE GALERIE: $500 → 17%OTHER MISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES: $2k → 17%MUSEUM FOR GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN ART: $500 → 17%OTHER MISC CHARITY: $2k → 17%NEUE GALERIE: $500 → 17%OTHER VARIOUS CHARITIES: $1k → 17%AMER FRIENDS OF LUDWIG FDN CUBA: $500 → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $410 → 17%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL: $2k → 17%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL: $2k → 17%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL: $2k → 17%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL: $2k → 17%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL: $2k → 17%MoMA: $340 → 17%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL: $2k → 17%CARNEGIE HALL: $300 → 17%CITY PARKS FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%SUNICO FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $5k → 17%FRIENDS OF 92Y: $250 → 17%NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $318 → 17%THE LUDWIG FOUNDATION - AFLFC: $1k → 17%LUDWIG FOUNDATION OF CUBA: $1k → 17%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.
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$412k · 19 repeat orgs$285k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
49

Total granted

$412k
$208k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+29%

Still filing today

53%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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 & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentInternationalFood & 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

  • PT
    PATH TO PEACE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $47k · revenue +522%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2018–2021 · $5k · revenue +17%
  • TL
    THE LOTOS CLUB INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $400 · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • CG
    CUNY GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • TG
    THE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +203%
  • AC
    ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $26k · revenue +58%
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
National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.

Arts & Culture
2
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
3
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
4
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
7
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
8
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
9
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
10
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
11
The Long Island Museum of American Art History & Carriages

The long island museum is dedicated to inspiring people of all ages with an understanding and enjoyment of american art, history and carriages as expressed through the heritage of long island and its diverse communities.

Arts & Culture
12
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Frick Collection; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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

27 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. 27 of the 70 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
19/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CUNY GRADUATE CENTER: $190,000 · OtherCUNY GRADUATE CENTERCITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: $125,000 · OtherCITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORKCUNY GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherCUNY GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATIONGRADUATE CENTER CUNY: $75,000 · OtherGRADUATE CENTER CUNYPATH TO PEACE FOUNDATION: $46,667 · OtherPATH TO PEACE FOUNDATIONTHE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Other+43 more: $94,537 · Other+43 moreASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC: $26,000 · InternationalThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $825 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural History: $450 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical Society: $443 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $410 · Arts & CultureThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $330 · Arts & CultureTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $315 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $300 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $278 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art: $277 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $265 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $238 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $209 · Arts & CultureWORLD SURGICAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 · HealthCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $150 · EducationPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $100 · Youth DevelopmentFeeding America: $25 · Food & Nutrition
Other$661,204International$26,000Arts & Culture$4,340Health$3,000Recreation & Sports$2,250Education$150Youth Development$100Food & Nutrition$25

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 budgetPATH TO PEACE FOUNDATION: $46,667 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetTHE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC: $26,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $4,750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD SURGICAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $825 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $443 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $410 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOTOS CLUB INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $330 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $315 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $278 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $277 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $265 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $238 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $109 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWater Mill Museum: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWATER MILL COMMUNITY CLUB INC: $45 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $25 over 1y, 0.0% 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 PATH TO PEACE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD SURGICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
  • Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds THE LOTOS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds The Frick Collection ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Albert and Lin Bildner Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Albert and Lin Bildner Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 70 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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