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The Cyrus Katzen Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Cyrus Katzen Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$813k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$6.4MEducation$3.8MReligion$414kPublic Benefit$260kHuman Services$246kArts & Culture$239kPhilanthropy$179kInternational$151kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $680k
  • $250k+1 grant · $813k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$812,500
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$170,000
BREM FOUNDATION TO DEFEAT BREAST CANCER INC$150,000
MEDSTAR WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER$125,000
EVANS VICTORY AGAINST NEUROBLASTOMA FOUNDATION$85,000
CAPITAL JEWISH MUSEUM$50,000
KATZEN DONOR ADVISED FUND$50,000
CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH$50,000
STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG$30,000
GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH$25,000
SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION$20,000
TEMPLE SHALOM$20,000
WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE MARINE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY$10,000
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 (FY18–25, $229k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOLDIERS TO SIDELINES: $2k → 10%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $5k → 14%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $3k → 14%RESTORE CHILDHOOD: $5k → 17%HEARTS & HOMES FOR YOUTH: $3k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $150k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $50k → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $5k → 8%COMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $3k → 8%COMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $2k → 8%COMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $2k → 8%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 65 repeat orgs$687k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
46

Total granted

$11M
$332k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+24%

Still filing today

68%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $355k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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

  • TG
    The George Washington University
    5× · 2018–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +26%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +40%
  • WH
    WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $425k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • CN
    CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +16%
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
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
3
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
4
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
5
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
6
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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7
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
8
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
9
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
10
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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11
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
12
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Spencer Foundation. 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

87 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. 87 of the 124 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/87
Grantees still filing
63/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3,789,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION: $425,000 · HealthWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATIONCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $370,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INCMAYO CLINIC: $275,000 · Health+16 more: $469,500 · Health+16 moreThe George Washington University: $2,535,000 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,120,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY+10 more: $99,500 · EducationBREM FOUNDATION: $475,000 · OtherBREM FOUNDATIONEVAN FOUNDATION: $224,500 · OtherEVAN FOUNDATIONSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $140,000 · OtherSAVE A CHILD'S HEART …TEMPLE SHALOM: $133,500 · OtherTEMPLE SHALOMGRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $125,820 · OtherGRACE COMMUNITY CHURC…CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL: $100,000 · OtherGW HEART AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE: $100,000 · OtherTHE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $90,000 · Other+58 more: $931,460 · Other+58 moreCenter for US Global Leadership: $250,000 · Public BenefitWORLD AGAINST TOYS CAUSING HARM INC: $10,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $7,500 · Public BenefitJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $200,000 · Human Services+6 more: $29,000 · Human ServicesLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSTUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC: $46,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMMAS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureREEL AMERICAN HEROES FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $12,500 · Arts & CultureBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $75,000 · PhilanthropyKOENIG CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION: $17,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyDANNYS WISH: $5,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Health$5,329,000Education$3,754,500Other$2,320,280Public Benefit$267,500Human Services$229,000Arts & Culture$171,000Philanthropy$127,000

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 budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3,789,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetThe George Washington University: $2,535,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION: $425,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $370,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $275,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for US Global Leadership: $250,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $140,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $90,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSo Kids SOAR: $60,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetStepping Stones Shelter Inc: $59,360 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $52,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShoresh Inc: $48,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSTUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC: $46,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HOSPICE & HOPE HOUSE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE MARINE VOL FIRE CO INC: $37,500 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $31,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetERHS PTA INC: $21,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNFLOWER BAKERY INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKOENIG CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetVILLAGE SCHOOL: $17,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL REHABILITATION HOSPITAL: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetART OVER HATE COLLECTIVE INC F/K/N ARTISTS 4 ISRAEL INC: $11,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMMAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetWORLD AGAINST TOYS CAUSING HARM INC: $10,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDSTAR HEALTH INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREEL AMERICAN HEROES FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 30% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEADERSHIP MONTGOMERY INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.9% 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 CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The George Washington University ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Center for US Global Leadership ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds BREM FOUNDATION TO DEFEAT BREAST CANCER ↗
  • Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds EVAN'S VICTORY AGAINST NEUROBLASTOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds So Kids SOAR ↗
  • Who funds Stepping Stones Shelter Inc ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc ↗
  • Who funds Shoresh Inc ↗
  • Who funds STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HOSPICE & HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE MARINE VOL FIRE CO INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association 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.

Clark-Winchcole Found…Greater Washington Co…Philip L Graham Fund …The Jewish Federation…The Morris and Gwendo…The Gary & Carol Berm…United Way of the Nat…The Kay Family Founda…The Gary and Pennie A…William S Abell Found…Nora Roberts Foundati…The MB Lewis Charitab…
Clark-Winchcole FoundationMD25.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Gary & Carol Berman Family Foundation Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Kay Family Foundation Inc · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · The MB Lewis Charitable 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 Cyrus Katzen Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cyrus Katzen Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Bethesda Cares Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Medstar Health Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc: 10% of income from government
  • The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Interfaith Works: 4% of income from government
  • Manna Food Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
  • Mmas Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 Cyrus Katzen Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Cyrus Katzen 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 124 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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