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The Axelrod Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Axelrod Family 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.

$144k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$157kReligion$119kArts & Culture$115kHealth$108kAnimals$46kYouth Development$18kInternational$16kFood & Nutrition$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k34 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $102k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$102k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$22,500
TEMPLE ISRAEL$20,180
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTH EAST$20,000
WHBPAC$16,000
MIAMI CITY BALLET$13,500
HORACE MANN SCHOOL$10,100
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNI$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,500
ALLEN STEVENSON SCHOOL$3,500
FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA$3,500
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE$2,550
STECHER & HOROWITZ FOUNDATION$2,500
PALM BEACH CIVIC ASSN$2,500
MT SINAI HEALTY SYSTEM$2,500
ARTWELL$1,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $100 → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $500 → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $500 → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $500 → 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$559k · 27 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
11

Total granted

$559k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+3%

Still filing today

56%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • BARNARD COLLEGE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $65k · revenue +48%
  • MC
    MIAMI CITY BALLET INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $48k · revenue +59%
  • HM
    Horace Mann School
    4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • SH
    STECHER & HOROWITZ MUSIC FND
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEWBREW UNIV
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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 Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
2
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
3
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
4
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
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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8
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
9
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Manhattanville University

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

Education
11
New York City Charter School of the Arts

New york city charter school of the arts (the "school") inspires a diverse community of young people to engage with the arts as a pathway to rich and rigorous academic scholarship and a creative, purposeful life.

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 Quogue Historical Society. 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

24 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. 24 of the 58 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)
24/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE ISRAEL: $99,910 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAELPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTH EAST: $81,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTH EASTIndividual grant recipient: $44,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWHBPAC: $37,800 · OtherWHBPACIndividual grant recipient: $37,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL: $17,500 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UN: $15,000 · Other+34 more: $69,190 · Other+34 moreBARNARD COLLEGE: $65,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGEHorace Mann School: $40,100 · EducationHorace Mann SchoolICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $10,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICI…+2 more: $2,500 · EducationMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $47,500 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CITY …THE STECHER AND HOROWITZ FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Arts & CultureTHE STECHER…NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $2,100 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $13,500 · Food & NutritionPalm Beach Civic Association Inc: $7,500 · Community ImprovementJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $250 · PhilanthropyBELEV ECHAD INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesBOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $500 · Human ServicesCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $100 · Human Services
Other$402,400Education$117,600Arts & Culture$60,100Food & Nutrition$13,500Community Improvement$7,500Philanthropy$2,750Human Services$1,600

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 budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $47,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHorace Mann School: $40,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STECHER AND HOROWITZ FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetPalm Beach Civic Association Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $2,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArtwell Collaborative Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARMONIE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSchool of the Arts Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELEV ECHAD INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUOGUE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WESTHAMPTON AMBULANCE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $100 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 BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds Horace Mann School ↗
  • Who funds THE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds THE STECHER AND HOROWITZ FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Palm Beach Civic Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Artwell Collaborative Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds HARMONIE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds School of the Arts Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
  • Who funds BELEV ECHAD 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.

National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Axelrod Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Axelrod Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
7report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Axelrod Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Axelrod Family Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 58 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $114k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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