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The Dorothy & Murray Feiss Foundation Inc

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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
42%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,451,810
Organizations funded a year
2 to 18
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 42% of the organizations The Dorothy & Murray Feiss Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthReligionPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$1.5M55%
FY202412$113k42%
FY202318$105k72%
FY202217$96k71%
FY202116$80k88%
FY20202$65kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.5MHealth$282kInternational$110kHousing & Shelter$31kReligion$24kHuman Services$14kArts & Culture$11kCivil Rights$9kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
MD
AZ
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 36 grantees
All grantees of The Dorothy & Murray Feiss Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc$143,58561%
Dystonia Medical Research Foundation$119,60141%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$110,28240%
Coalition for the Homeless Inc$20,00020%
New Destiny Housing Corporation$10,00010%
The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc$8,00020%
Anti-Defamation League$6,50010%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$6,50040%
Selfhelp Community Services Inc$5,75030%
Chabad of Bedford Inc$5,5001n/a
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$5,50010%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$5,00010%
New York Common Pantry$5,00010%
Good Plus Foundation Inc$5,00020%
Community Synagogue$4,6003n/a
The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc$2,40010%
Old Oaks Foundation Inc$2,00020%
The Chimes Inc$2,00010%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$2,00010%
Temple Emanu-El of Long Beach Inc$1,80010%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$1,50010%
Sunrise Day Camps Association Inc$1,10010%
Ibis Charities Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Temple Emanu-El of Palm Beach Inc$1,0001n/a
The Salvation Army$1,0001n/a
School News Nationwide Inc$1,00011%
Met Council Inc$1,0001n/a
Central Synagogue$1,0001n/a
Jbi International Inc$77510%
Resources for Children With Special Needs Inc$50010%
The H Foundation$50010%
American Lung Association$50010%
Colel Chabad$5001n/a
Les Dames D'Escoffier International Inc$45610%
Temple Beth El$1201n/a
Stephanies House Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Dorothy & Murray Feiss Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIsrael Cancer Research Fund Inc: $143,585 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetDystonia Medical Research Foundation: $119,601 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $110,282 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition for the Homeless Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew Destiny Housing Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSelfhelp Community Services Inc: $5,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Common Pantry: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Plus Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Louis D Brandeis Center Inc: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOld Oaks Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Chimes Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple Emanu-El of Long Beach Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSunrise Day Camps Association Inc: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIbis Charities Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSchool News Nationwide Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJbi International Inc: $775 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetResources for Children With Special Needs Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe H Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Lung Association: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLes Dames D'Escoffier International Inc: $456 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStephanies House Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY18.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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Find your warmest path to The Dorothy & Murray Feiss 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.

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About The Dorothy & Murray Feiss Foundation Inc

How much does The Dorothy & Murray Feiss Foundation Inc give?
The Dorothy & Murray Feiss Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $1,535,380 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Dorothy & Murray Feiss Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (74%), Health (14%), International (6%).
Who are The Dorothy & Murray Feiss Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc ($144k), Dystonia Medical Research Foundation ($120k), Friends of the Israel Defense Forces ($110k).
Does The Dorothy & Murray Feiss Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Dorothy & Murray Feiss Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Dorothy & Murray Feiss Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The Dorothy & Murray Feiss Foundation Inc based?
The Dorothy & Murray Feiss Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 53 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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