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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 FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $68k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE DOROTHY AND MURRAY FEISS FAMILY FUND (DAF)$1,451,810
FIDF$49,650
THE ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND$18,000
DYSTONIA MEDICAL REASEARCH FUND$7,500
CHABAD OF BEDFORD$5,500
COMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE OF RYE$1,000
CITY OF HOPE$500
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION$500
SELF HELP COMMUNITY SERVICE$500
ALZHEIMERS ASSOC ALZHEIMER$300
TEMPLE BETH EL$120
02The need
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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 (FY21–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%STEPHANIE'S HOUSE: $100 → 6%CHIMES INC: $2k → 19%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASOCIATION: $1k → 6%SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5k → 17%GOODFOUNDATION: $3k → 17%GOODFOUNDATION: $2k → 17%SELF HELP COMMUNITY SERVICE: $500 → 17%SELF HELP COMMUNITY SERVICE: $500 → 17%INCLUDE NYC: $500 → 17%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

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
MD
AZ
DC
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.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$427k · 11 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
35

Total granted

$427k
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+8%

Still filing today

82%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyReligionInternationalOther
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

  • IC
    ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $144k · revenue +92%
  • DM
    DYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $120k · revenue +45%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    4× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • TN
    THE NATAN FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • ND
    NEW DESTINY HOUSING CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +182%
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.

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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
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
3
New York University

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.

Education
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
6
Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc

To empower new yorkers, providing integrated mental health and social services with compassion and expertise.

Human Services
7
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
10
Jewish Home Lifecare Manhattan

Jewish home lifecare (d/b/a the new jewish home, manhattan), is a not-for-profit organization committed to transforming eldercare for new yorkers so they can live meaningful lives in the place they call home.

Health
11
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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12
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Destiny Housing Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Stephanies House Inc. 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

30 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. 30 of the 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DOROTHY AND MURRAY FEISS FAMILY FUND (DAF): $1,451,810 · OtherTHE DOROTHY AND MURRAY FEISS FAMILY FUND (DAF)ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $143,585 · OtherISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC+32 more: $124,876 · Other+32 moreDYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $119,601 · Health+4 more: $3,275 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $110,282 · InternationalSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5,750 · Human ServicesGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHIMES INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,100 · Human ServicesRESOURCES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC: $500 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesTHE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL NEWS NATIONWIDE INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureNEW DESTINY HOUSING CORPORATION: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $1,500 · PhilanthropyIbis Charities Foundation Inc: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,720,271Health$122,876International$110,282Human Services$14,450Arts & Culture$11,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Philanthropy$7,500

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 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 budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $1,500 over 2y, 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
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.

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 FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Dorothy & Murray Feiss Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dorothy & Murray Feiss Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 Dorothy & Murray Feiss Foundation Inc?

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.

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 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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