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The Eleanor and Alexander Holtzman Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Eleanor and Alexander Holtzman Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$1k
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, FY2018 to 2023.

Religion$25kArts & Culture$20kHealth$6kCommunity Improvement$4kPhilanthropy$4kEducation$4kFood & Nutrition$500Recreation & Sports$500Other$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRE ISLAND SYNAGOGUE$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FRIENDS OF ART: $100 → 7%PENN HILLEL: $5k → 22%FIRE ISLAND MINYAN: $2k → 7%primary stages: $15k → 17%MEALS ON WHEELS: $500 → 7%FNIH: $1k → 8%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $4k → 7%FIRE ISLAND SYNAGOGUE: $1k → 7%PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%FIRE ISLAND SYNOGAGUE: $1k → 7%THE PARKINSONS FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%FIRE ISLAND SYNAGOGUE: $1k → 7%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $500 → 17%FIRE ISLAND SYNOGAGUE: $500 → 7%UJA FEDERATION NY: $2k → 17%OCEAN BEACH FIRE DEPARTMENT: $100 → 7%UJA FEDERATION: $1k → 17%UJA FEDERATION: $1k → 17%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $250 → 17%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $250 → 17%METZAD congregation: $10k → 17%STEPHEN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE: $200 → 17%CANCER CARE: $1k → 17%STEPHEN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE: $180 → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM: $110 → 17%wnet: $1k → 17%WNET 13: $800 → 17%ROUNDTABLE OF CULTURAL SEMINARS: $450 → 17%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $100 → 17%The New York Board of Rabbis: $5k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $100 → 17%JEWISH MUSEUM: $65 → 17%CALHOUN SCHOOL: $300 → 17%ALM MEDIA LLC: $155 → 17%THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPS: $3k → 17%THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPS: $1k → 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.
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.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19k · 8 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
17

Total granted

$19k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
0%

Still filing today

63%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $4k · revenue +22%
  • PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2021 · $3k · revenue +177%
  • WNET
    2× · 2019–2021 · $2k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • PS
    Primary Stages Company Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +5%
  • MC
    METZAD CONGREGATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • NY
    NEW YORK BOARD OF RABBIS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
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
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
5
University of New Haven

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…

Education
6
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
7
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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8
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
10
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
11
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
12
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wnet; the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels 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

13 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. 13 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METZAD CONGREGATION: $10,000 · OtherMETZAD CONGREGATIONNEW YORK BOARD OF RABBIS INC: $5,000 · OtherNEW YORK BOARD OF RABBIS INCPENN HILLEL: $5,000 · OtherPENN HILLELFIRE ISLAND SYNOGOGUE: $3,950 · OtherFIRE ISLAND SYNOGOGUEFIRE ISLAND MINYAN INC: $2,300 · OtherFIRE ISLAND MINYAN INCFNIH: $1,000 · Other+8 more: $2,395 · Other+8 morePrimary Stages Company Inc: $15,000 · Arts & CulturePrimary Stages Company IncWNET: $2,100 · Arts & CultureWNET+2 more: $165 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL EXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPS: $4,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · HealthCancer Care Inc: $1,000 · HealthWellesley College: $3,500 · EducationTHE CALHOUN SCHOOL INC: $300 · EducationCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$29,645Arts & Culture$17,265Community Improvement$4,000Philanthropy$4,000Health$4,000Education$3,800Recreation & Sports$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPrimary Stages Company Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL EXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPS: $4,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Care Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROUND TABLE OF CULTURAL SEMINARS LTD: $450 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CALHOUN SCHOOL INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $65 over 1y, 0.0% 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 FundVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Jewish Communal FundNY15.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Eleanor and Alexander Holtzman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eleanor and Alexander Holtzman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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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Find your warmest path to The Eleanor and Alexander Holtzman Foundation 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 25 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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