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The Bassuk Family Foundation Inc

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.

$258k
Granted FY2020
14
Grants FY2020
6
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172020.

Health$209kCrime & Legal$101kInternational$58kReligion$39kArts & Culture$22kCivil Rights$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2020 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k8 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $195k
$5,349
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AIEF$95,000
The Shalem Foundation$50,000
JDRF$50,000
Westchester Reform Temple$15,000
The Washington Institute$10,000
Camera Foundation$10,000
Temple Beth Israel$5,349
Israel Emergency Alliance$5,000
White plains Hospital$5,000
American Jewish Committee$5,000
Cornea Research Foundation$5,000
Scarsdale Police Benevolent Associa$1,000
Scarsdale Volunteer Ambulence Corp$1,000
Jewish Museum$250
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, 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.

area typical 11%Lustgarten Foundation: $1k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
MA
IN
NJ
CT
CA
VA
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$798k · 13 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
20

Total granted

$798k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+25%

Still filing today

62%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthCivil RightsFood & NutritionSocial ScienceOther

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

  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    4× · 2017–2020 · $195k · revenue +49%
  • TS
    The Shalem Foundation
    2× · 2019–2020 · $100k · revenue +185%
  • WI
    WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $42k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHEVRA HATZALAH
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • HU
    HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -9%

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

04Your field

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.

1
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
2
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
3
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
4
The Jerusalem Connection
5
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
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

7
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
8
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

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
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
11
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
12
Moskowitz Prize for Zionism Inc

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust and the most unlike its peers is The Moore Charitable Foundation 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community FederationsCommunity Health CentersGovernment Accountability R…Education Equity LeadershipCancer Support OrganizationsClassical Music EnsemblesSenior Support ServicesCommunity Arts Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%4%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr16%20%35–55yr15%40%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%1%10–20yr18%54%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr15%21%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,973

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.

04the grantee network

24 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
20/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AIEF — $385,000 · OtherAIEFWestchester Reform Temple — $23,166 · Other+20 more — $54,052 · Other+20 moreBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $195,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D+1 more — $5,000 · HealthThe Shalem Foundation — $100,000 · Crime & LegalThe Shalem Fo…WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $41,925 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $10,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $5,000 · International+1 more — $1,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $10,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $10,000 · Civil RightsCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $1,800 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $610 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST — $500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $175 · Arts & CultureCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $2,100 · Food & Nutrition
Other$462,218Health$200,000Crime & Legal$100,000International$57,925Civil Rights$20,000Arts & Culture$6,585Food & Nutrition$2,100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $195,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shalem Foundation — $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $41,925 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOORE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEVES CAMP AT HORIZON FARMS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $610 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $175 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Bassuk Family Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc3% 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)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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