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The Buddy Taub Foundation

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.

$367k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2025
30
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$8,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 30
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
14
Total assets, FY2025
$8.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations The Buddy Taub Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$367k71%
FY202430$423k67%
FY202312$538k25%
FY202214$511k50%
FY202114$469k50%
FY202022$613k64%
FY201919$553k58%
FY201826$635k77%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$3.6MEducation$691kHealth$80kFood & Nutrition$62kInternational$31kHuman Services$29kPhilanthropy$26kEmployment$14kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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MA
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OH
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CA
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DE
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DC
LA
AL
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 88 grantees
All grantees of The Buddy Taub Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston$991,96480%
Museum Associates$347,00050%
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc$268,75070%
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc$246,45051%
Menil Foundation Inc$125,00010%
Jorge M Perez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County Inc$102,40030%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$100,00010%
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego$95,00030%
New York Historical Society$75,00010%
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art$66,40020%
The Pierpont Morgan Library$65,00010%
The Endowment for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston$63,7131n/a
Regents of the University of California$61,4802n/a
Walker Art Center$60,55020%
Whitney Museum of American Art$60,00030%
Project Angel Food$57,50021%
Smithsonian Institution$55,00010%
Bard College$52,00010%
The J Paul Getty Trust$50,00010%
Washington and Lee University$42,50020%
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy$42,00020%
The Art Institute of Chicago$42,00020%
Portland Art Museum$38,00020%
The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles$35,00010%
Cleveland Museum of Art$34,00010%
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation$32,50010%
Fashion Institute of Technology Foundation$30,00010%
University of Minnesota Foundation$30,00010%
Regents of the University of California$29,1002n/a
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation$28,84030%
Letterform Archive$25,00012%
Jackie Robinson Foundation Inc$25,00020%
New York Academy of Art$22,50030%
Museum of Fine Arts$21,10010%
Young Eisner Scholars$20,00030%
Wood Naomi Uw$19,94025%
Nevada Museum of Art$18,00010%
The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Inc$18,00010%
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$15,00010%
The Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Awareness$15,00011%
St Louis Art Museum Foundation$12,48020%
Rhode Island School of Design$12,00010%
George Eastman Museum$11,50010%
Vista del Mar Child and Family Services$11,00020%
The Louisiana Museum Foundation$10,50010%
David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace$10,00010%
American Friends of le Korsa Inc$10,00011%
Eastern Pennsylvania Down Syndrome Center$10,00016%
Summaeverythang Community Center In$10,0001n/a
Shadhika Project$9,00041%
New Orleans Museum of Art$8,70010%
Beyond Walls Inc$8,5001n/a
Access Gallery$8,50011%
Art Opportunities Inc$8,5001n/a
Artists Working in Education Inc$8,50012%
Soo Visual Arts Center Inc$8,50013%
The Bakery Atlanta Incorporated$8,5001n/a
Hope Center for Arts and Technology Inc$8,50011%
The Trustees of Reservations$5,90010%
Empower-The Emerging Markets Foundation$5,50020%
Adam Stanton House Incorporated$5,5001n/a
Art Production Fund Inc$5,00010%
Chai Lifeline Inc$5,0001n/a
Social Assistance Program for Vietnam$5,00011%
Extraordinary Families$5,00010%
The Invictus Fund Nv$5,00018%
United States Artists Inc$5,00010%
Jvs Socal$5,00010%
Vassar College$4,25010%
Inca Press$2,5001n/a
Tinworks Art$2,50010%
The Current Inc$2,50010%
Equal Justice Initiative$2,50010%
Soft Network Inc$2,50012%
New City Arts Initiative$2,50011%
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc$2,50010%
Luminal Theater Corp$2,50013%
6018north Nfp$2,50011%
Galveston Artist Residency$2,50011%
Roots & Culture Contemporary Artcenter$2,50012%
Community Gallery Inc$2,50010%
Echo Park Film Center$2,50014%
Henry Street Settlement$2,00010%
Fulcrum Arts$1,50010%
World of Children Inc$1,50010%
Star C Corporation$1,5001n/a
The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute$1,50010%
Harlem Children's Zone Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($823k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Buddy Taub Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Museum of Fine Arts Houston: $991,964 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum Associates: $347,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetArmand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc: $268,750 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetInstitute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc: $246,450 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJorge M Perez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County Inc: $102,400 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Contemporary Art San Diego: $95,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $66,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $65,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWalker Art Center: $60,550 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetProject Angel Food: $57,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBard College: $52,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe J Paul Getty Trust: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $42,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBuffalo Fine Arts Academy: $42,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Art Institute of Chicago: $42,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Art Museum: $38,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCleveland Museum of Art: $34,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSolomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $32,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFashion Institute of Technology Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Minnesota Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $28,840 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLetterform Archive: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJackie Robinson Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNew York Academy of Art: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Fine Arts: $21,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Eisner Scholars: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWood Naomi Uw: $19,940 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetNevada Museum of Art: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Awareness: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSt Louis Art Museum Foundation: $12,480 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRhode Island School of Design: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorge Eastman Museum: $11,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVista del Mar Child and Family Services: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Louisiana Museum Foundation: $10,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDavid Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of le Korsa Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEastern Pennsylvania Down Syndrome Center: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetShadhika Project: $9,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNew Orleans Museum of Art: $8,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAccess Gallery: $8,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 77.

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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.

Claire and Theodore Morse FoundationCA28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Inc · Teiger Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Impactassetsinc · The Chicago Community Trust

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.

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How do I get to The Buddy Taub Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Buddy Taub Foundation 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.

About The Buddy Taub Foundation

How much does The Buddy Taub Foundation give?
The Buddy Taub Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $367,316 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Buddy Taub Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (77%), Education (15%), Health (2%).
Who are The Buddy Taub Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Museum of Fine Arts Houston ($992k), Museum Associates ($347k), Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc ($269k).
Does The Buddy Taub Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Buddy Taub Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Buddy Taub Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Inc.
Where is The Buddy Taub Foundation based?
The Buddy Taub Foundation is based in CA.

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 122 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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