· Private foundation
The Dorfman and Kaish Family Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $283k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEILL CORNELL FUND | $100,000 |
| PRESIDENTS & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $60,000 |
| COLUMBIA VOICE OF SWALLOWING | $40,000 |
| CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE | $40,000 |
| THE BREARLEY SCHOOL | $27,500 |
| NAPIER PARK GIVING FUND | $25,000 |
| CITTA | $25,000 |
| THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF NEW YORK | $25,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISREAL INC | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| PULLUM CENTER | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $10,000 |
| THE HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON | $8,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 13 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $234k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RCRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC2× · 2017–2018 · $120k · revenue +37%
- CICitta Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +0%
- TBTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL6× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- TDTHE DARTMOUTH INCone grant, 2019 · $280k · revenue +11%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $175k
- HGHARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $86k
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.
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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 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.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
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…
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.
How this is measured
64 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. 64 of the 127 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE DARTMOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Citta Inc ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Art Students League Of New York Inc ↗
- Who funds CONCERTS IN MOTION INC ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKE JACKMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Robert L and Jean Clarke Family Foundation · Marty and Dorothy Silverman Foundation · First Eagle Investments Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Open Society Institute · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dorfman and Kaish Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dorfman and Kaish Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Team Walker Inc: 68% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Noise Pollution Clearinghouse Inc: 1% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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