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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 FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $158k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$8,500
Median grant
14
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
J PAUL GETTY TRUST$50,000
THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART$50,000
PEREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI$30,000
SCOTTSDALE MUSEUM ON CONTEMPORARY ART$28,000
THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON$27,563
THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON$27,563
HAMMER MUSEUM$20,000
THE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION$15,000
SUMMAEVERYTHANG COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
ARTS ACCESS NORTH CAROLINA$8,500
ACCESS GALLERY$8,500
SOO VISUAL ARTS CENTER$8,500
THE BAKERY ATLANTA INCORPORATED$8,500
VISTA DEL MAR CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES$8,500
BEYOND WALLS$8,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $9k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $5k → 14%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2k → 17%THE HARLEM CHILDREN ZONE: $1k → 17%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $10k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $5k → 14%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

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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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 34 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
68

Total granted

$3.1M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+8%

Still filing today

68%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k 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

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Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON
    8× · 2017–2025 · $992k · revenue +96%
  • MA
    MUSEUM ASSOCIATES
    5× · 2017–2025 · $347k · revenue +89%
  • IO
    INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $246k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • MF
    Menil Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +22%
  • TN
    The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundationsgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +76%
  • M
    MFAH
    one grant, 2018 · $88k
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.

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California Institute of Contemporary Art
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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
3
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
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Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
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
9
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Arts & Culture
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Berggruen Institute
Education
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The Studio Museum in Harlem

The studio museum in harlem is a contemporary art museum that focuses on the work of artists of african descent - as well as work that has been inspired and influenced by african culture - past and present; through its exhibitions,…

Arts & Culture
12
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walker Art Center; the most unlike its peers is Galveston Artist Residency. 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

89 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. 89 of the 122 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
89/89
Grantees still filing
56/89
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $991,964 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTONMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $347,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATESARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $268,750 · Arts & CultureARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INCINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC: $246,450 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INCMenil Foundation Inc: $125,000 · Arts & CultureJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC: $102,400 · Arts & Culture+39 more: $869,783 · Arts & Culture+39 moreCARNEGIE INSTITUTE (CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART): $163,865 · OtherCARNEGIE INSTITUTE (CARNE…HENRY ART GALLERY: $109,002 · OtherHENRY ART GALLERYTHE LILLY LIBRARY: $90,000 · OtherTHE LILLY LIBRARYMFAH: $88,400 · OtherMFAHREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $61,480 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY…NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES: $60,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY L…+41 more: $491,088 · Other+41 moreThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $100,000 · EducationThe New Yor…The Pierpont Morgan Library: $65,000 · EducationThe Pierpon…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $65,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF…BARD COLLEGE: $52,000 · EducationBARD COLLEG…Washington and Lee University: $42,500 · EducationWashington …THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $42,000 · EducationTHE ART INS…UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …Letterform Archive: $25,000 · EducationLetterform …+6 more: $44,100 · Education+6 moreTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $50,000 · PhilanthropyWOOD NAOMI UW: $19,940 · PhilanthropyDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $10,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LE KORSA INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE INVICTUS FUND NV: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $57,500 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $15,000 · HealthEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA DOWN SYNDROME CENTER: $10,000 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $5,000 · HealthYoung Eisner Scholars: $20,000 · Human ServicesVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $11,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesSUMMAEVERYTHANG COMMUNITY CENTER IN: $10,000 · Community ImprovementBEYOND WALLS INC: $8,500 · Community ImprovementSTAR C CORPORATION: $1,500 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$2,951,347Other$1,063,835Education$465,600Philanthropy$94,940Health$87,500Human Services$34,000Community Improvement$20,000

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

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShadhika Project: $9,000 over 4y, 0.6% 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.

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 M…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Robert Mapplethor…Teiger FoundationJewish Communal FundSilicon Valley Commun…California Community …The Ford FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…ImpactassetsincThe Chicago Community…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Beyond Walls Inc: 6% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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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.

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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