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The Carl C Icahn Foundation (Fka Fndtn for a Greater Opportunity)
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $290k
- $250k+1 grant · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IPAW INC | $4,000,000 |
| FORDHAM PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $110,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $100,000 |
| THE ICAHN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| ACADEMY OF MOUNT ST URSULA | $25,600 |
| RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $15,153 |
| DOMINICAN ACADEMY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $12,150 |
| ST CATHARINE ACADEMY | $8,000 |
| ST RAYMOND ACADEMY | $7,400 |
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE TAFT SCHOOL | $2,525 |
| THE FRESH AIR FUND | $2,500 |
| NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN | $1,000 |
| LOYOLA SCHOOL | $480 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RCRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +18%
- TSTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +215%
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC3× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- RHROBIN HOOD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $2.7M · revenue -10%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2022 · $500k
- CCCAESARS CARES FUND (OPERATES UNDER LIFEBOAT INC)one grant, 2020 · $350k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taft School Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Ipaw 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.
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 48 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 53% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds IPAW INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ATLANTIC CITY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds THE ICAHN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MT TREMPER OUTDOOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Educational Innovation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds MACCABI USA INC ↗
- Who funds HORSE FARM WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Carl C Icahn Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Carl C Icahn Foundation (Fka Fndtn for a Greater Opportunity) 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
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.
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