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The Artzt Howard Foundation at a glance

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The Artzt Howard Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$636k
Granted FY2020
7
Grants FY2020
4
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Health$616kEducation$39kReligion$37kPhilanthropy$12kInternational$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kArts & Culture$2kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2020 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k5 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
  • $250k+1 grant · $600k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$600,000
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY$31,177
JACKSON LABORATORY RESEARCH$2,000
BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL$2,000
MORIKAMI MUSEUM JAPANESE GARDENS$600
CONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL$500
RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE$100
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 (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NACHMA: $3k → 11%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREAT LOS ANGE: $5k → 14%CONGREGATION TREE OF LIFE: $2k → 6%RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $2k → 11%SYRACUSE UNIV: $1k → 14%PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN ANNUAL FUN: $200 → 17%HURRICANE MARIA RELIEF FUND: $3k → 20%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: $31k → 28%Jewish Federation of Austin: $2k → 10%Jewish Federation of Palm Beach: $5k → 11%Temple Dor Dorime: $5k → 13%University of North Florida: $1k → 14%florida state university: $1k → 19%CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL: $8k → 9%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $600k → 9%HIAS: $3k → 8%JACKSON LABORATORY RESEARCH: $2k → 11%Nechama: $3k → 11%RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $100 → 11%AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE: $3k → 17%JEWISH FED GREATER AUSTIN: $2k → 10%MORIKAMI MUSEUM JAPANESE GARDENS: $600 → 11%HIAS: $2k → 8%American Jewish World Service: $2k → 17%MORIKAMI MUSEUM JAPANESE GARDENS: $300 → 11%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN: $3k → 17%MORIKAMI MUSEUM: $300 → 11%FORDHAM UNIVVERSITY: $39k → 17%MORIKAMI MUSEUM: $300 → 11%American Cancer Society: $10k → 11%NORTON MUSEUM OF ART: $600 → 11%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $2k → 11%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $2k → 11%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $1k → 11%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $1k → 11%FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%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

ME
MN
NY
CT
CA
VA
MD
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$640k · 7 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
19

Total granted

$640k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+116%

Still filing today

71%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
HealthEducationArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • BR
    Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +78%
  • HI
    HIAS INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $5k · revenue +114%
  • RS
    RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE
    2× · 2018–2020 · $2k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $39k
  • CB
    CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $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
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
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
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
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Manhattanville University

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

Education
10
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
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Jackson Laboratory. 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

11 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. 11 of the 30 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $610,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC+2 more: $8,000 · HealthIndividual grant recipient: $39,139 · OtherIndividual gra…CONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL: $15,681 · OtherCONGREGATION B…CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL: $7,600 · OtherCONGREGATION B…Individual grant recipient: $5,210 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREAT LOS ANGE: $5,000 · Other+14 more: $26,800 · Other+14 moreFordham University: $31,177 · EducationRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $2,100 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $5,000 · InternationalHIAS INC: $5,000 · InternationalJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyThe Morikami Inc: $900 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $600 · Arts & Culture
Health$618,000Other$99,430Education$34,277International$10,000Philanthropy$5,000Arts & Culture$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $610,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFordham University: $31,177 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Morikami Inc: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $600 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 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Fordham University ↗
  • Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds HIAS INC ↗
  • Who funds RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Morikami Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%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%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 30 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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