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The Dobkin Family 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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
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 FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$1.5MHealth$650kInternational$614kReligion$411kPhilanthropy$367kHuman Services$337kCivil Rights$331kCommunity Improvement$285kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 32 grants below total $1,215,931 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,041,219 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $825,288 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $315k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $621k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NYU Langone Hospitals$250,000
American Jewish World Services$171,247
American Jewish World Service$100,000
Partners in Health$100,000
Jackson Hole One Fly Foundation$50,000
New Israel Fund$50,000
Chicago Media Project$50,000
Museum of the City of New York$50,000
Lilith Publications Inc$50,000
Jewish Communal Fund$45,000
Montclair University Foundation$30,000
Marietta College$25,000
Pace University$25,000
Social Good Fund$25,000
Beloved Builders Inc$25,000
02Your 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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 27 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
78

Total granted

$2.3M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+19%

Still filing today

78%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $287k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’24
Arts & CultureHealthCivil RightsEducationHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS
    2× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +28%
  • NY
    NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $180k · revenue +11%
  • LP
    LILITH PUBLICATIONS INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $175k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • MO
    Ma'Yan/JCC of Manhattan
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
  • TJ
    THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $145k · revenue +197%
  • TC
    Tides Centre
    one grant, 2022 · $100k

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

03Your 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 Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
3
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
4
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
5
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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6
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
7
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
8
The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion
9
Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fundinc

Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art

Arts & Culture
10
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
11
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
12
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of New York. 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 backsteadyCommunity Hospital SystemsJewish Community FederationsWomen's Empowerment Organiz…Pregnancy Support CentersDevelopmental Disabilities …Volunteer Fire & RescueFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts CentersEnvironmental Advocacy and …Community Theater CompaniesEducation Equity InitiativesYouth Sports ProgramsGirls Stem Education Progra…Food Pantries and AssistanceDomestic Violence and Sexua…Christian Outreach Ministri…Government Accountability &…Local History Museums
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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%43%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%45%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%9%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/84
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,676

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.

03the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 123 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/82
Grantees still filing
52/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Ma'Yan/JCC of Manhattan — $200,000 · OtherMa'Yan/JCC of ManhattanNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC — $180,000 · OtherNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INCAmerican Jewish World Services — $171,247 · OtherAmerican Jewish World ServicesFoundation for Jewish Community — $120,000 · OtherTides Centre — $100,000 · OtherAfter Image Public Media — $100,000 · OtherBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE — $85,000 · Other+70 more — $1,460,057 · Other+70 moreMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN — $210,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF ARTS AND D…LILITH PUBLICATIONS INC — $175,000 · Arts & CultureLILITH PUBLICATIONS …THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC — $145,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH WOMEN'S A…GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE — $75,000 · Arts & CultureGIRL BE HEARD INSTIT…WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES IN…UTAH FILM CENTER — $60,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTERSundance Institute — $55,000 · Arts & CultureSundance InstituteMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $55,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE CITY O…Austin City Art Fund — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $90,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS — $300,000 · HealthNYU LANGONE HO…PARTNERS IN HEALTH — $200,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HE…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $100,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HE…NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthNORTHWELL HEAL…JTP PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CORPORATION — $25,000 · HealthNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · Health+1 more — $10,000 · HealthNEW ISRAEL FUND — $250,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAE…AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $100,000 · InternationalAMERICAN …Just Vision Inc — $50,000 · InternationalJust Visi…JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · InternationalJERUSALEM…T'RUAH — $20,000 · International+1 more — $1,000 · InternationalDIMENSIONS EDUCATIONAL CONSULTING — $225,000 · Civil RightsHUMANITY IN ACTION INC — $60,000 · Civil RightsMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC — $50,000 · Civil RightsJEWS FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE — $37,500 · Civil RightsPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $35,000 · Civil RightsKESHET INC — $25,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $5,000 · Civil RightsBELOVED BUILDERS INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER — $50,000 · Human ServicesFOOTSTEPS INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK FOUNDLING — $10,000 · Human Services+2 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesJACKSON HOLE ONE FLY FOUNDATION — $174,325 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND — $25,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentRUBY HABITAT FOUNDATION — $11,000 · Environment
Other$2,416,304Arts & Culture$990,000Health$710,000International$471,000Civil Rights$437,500Human Services$270,000Environment$235,325

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $250,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDIMENSIONS EDUCATIONAL CONSULTING — $225,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN — $210,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC — $180,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetLILITH PUBLICATIONS INC — $175,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetJACKSON HOLE ONE FLY FOUNDATION — $174,325 over 3y, 37% of budgetBELOVED BUILDERS INC — $150,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetTHE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC — $145,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE — $85,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE — $75,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMarietta College — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT — $75,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER — $60,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHUMANITY IN ACTION INC — $60,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSundance Institute — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAustin City Art Fund — $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJust Vision Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICA'S CHARITIES — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWS FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE — $37,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATTICUS CORPORATION — $35,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC — $32,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN STATES CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKESHET — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJTP PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKESHET INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Philadelphia Film Office — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $25,000 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 FundSilicon Valley Commun…The Ford FoundationJewish Community Fede…Tides FoundationImpactassetsincCombined Jewish Phila…Marietta and Andrew R…The Overbrook Foundat…The Tow Foundation IncUnited Jewish Appeal-…Rockefeller Brothers …
Jewish Communal FundNY18.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Marietta and Andrew Romay Foundation Inc · The Overbrook Foundation · The Tow Foundation Inc · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund 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.

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 123 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.0M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home