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The Emily Davie and Joseph S Kornfeld Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0171% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.

Arts & Culture$2.1MEducation$845kPublic Benefit$600kCommunity Improvement$508kCrime & Legal$370kHuman Services$355kEnvironment$175kHealth$130kCivil Rights$110kOther$2.1M
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$60,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK FOUNDATION$250,000
ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC$110,000
MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK$110,000
NEW YORK FOUNDATION$100,000
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC$60,000
GIRL BE HEARD$60,000
ST LUKE'S CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC$60,000
SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY CONSERVANCY INC$60,000
MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC (AKA MCC THEATER)$60,000
MARQUIS STUDIOS LTD$60,000
BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES (AKA BROOKLYN MUSEUM)$60,000
HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT$60,000
ARTSCONNECTION$60,000
NEW YORK CITY ARTS IN EDUCATION ROUNDTABLE$60,000
DEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD$50,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $355k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $60k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $60k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $60k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $50k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $50k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $50k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
OH
MD
DE
TN
DC
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.6M · 26 repeat orgs$670k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
13

Total granted

$6.6M
$620k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+17%

Still filing today

92%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalPublic BenefitOther

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

  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    3× · 2020–2022 · $600k · revenue +39%
  • SL
    ST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $495k · revenue +10%
  • TA
    THE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $408k · revenue +210%

Funded once

  • IS
    ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI BROOKDALE DEPARTMENT OF GERIATRICS
    one grant, 2019 · $200k
  • TB
    THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $70k · revenue +34%
  • CI
    CIVIC INFLUENCERS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -52%

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

04Your 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
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
2
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
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 Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
5
Manhattanville University

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

Education
6
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
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 Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
9
Manhattan University

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…

Education
10
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
11
Studio in a School Association Inc

From classrooms to careers, studio in a school expands access to visual arts education and professions in the arts by partnering with practicing artists, schools, and cultural institutions.

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12
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Be Heard Institute and the most unlike its peers is Applied Medical Research Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr15%7%5–10yr21%7%10–20yr21%36%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr9%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr21%9%10–20yr21%26%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr9%36%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
12%
5,281/45,725

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
20/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW YORK FOUNDATION — $925,000 · OtherNEW YORK FOUNDATIONBROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES (AKA BROOKLYN MUSEUM) — $382,500 · OtherBROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES…BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC — $285,000 · OtherBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INCICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI BROOKDALE DEPARTMENT OF GERIATRICS — $200,000 · OtherICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI…MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC (AKA MCC THEATER) — $160,000 · OtherMANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC (AKA MCC TH…BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION — $175,000 · OtherBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION+13 more — $430,000 · Other+13 moreST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC — $495,000 · Arts & CultureST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INCARTSCONNECTION INC — $355,000 · Arts & CultureARTSCONNECTION INCMARQUIS STUDIOS LTD — $355,000 · Arts & CultureMARQUIS STUDIOS LTDSEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY CONSERVANCY INC — $202,500 · Arts & CultureSEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY CONSERV…GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE — $160,000 · Arts & CultureGIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTENEW YORK CITY ARTS-IN-EDUCATION ROUNDTABLE INC — $155,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY ARTS-IN-EDUCATION…EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC — $125,000 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INCMANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC — $112,500 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INCTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $70,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $25,000 · Arts & CultureICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $600,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL …ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL — $184,500 · EducationETHICAL CULTU…OHIO CAMPUS COMPACT — $50,000 · EducationOHIO CAMPUS C…+1 more — $10,000 · EducationCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $400,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FO…DEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD — $200,000 · Public BenefitDEMOS A N…THE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC — $407,500 · Community ImprovementCAMBA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $60,000 · Community ImprovementCAMBA INC — $40,000 · Community ImprovementMake the Road New York — $270,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC — $100,000 · Crime & LegalHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $355,000 · Human Services
Other$2,557,500Arts & Culture$2,055,000Education$844,500Public Benefit$600,000Community Improvement$507,500Crime & Legal$370,000Human Services$355,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION — $925,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC — $495,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC — $407,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $400,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetARTSCONNECTION INC — $355,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $355,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMARQUIS STUDIOS LTD — $355,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC — $285,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMake the Road New York — $270,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY CONSERVANCY INC — $202,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD — $200,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL — $184,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION — $175,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE — $160,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetNEW YORK CITY ARTS-IN-EDUCATION ROUNDTABLE INC — $155,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC — $125,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC — $112,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC — $100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $70,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMBA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $60,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rogosin Institute Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCIVIC INFLUENCERS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetOHIO CAMPUS COMPACT — $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBA INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAPPLIED MEDICAL RESEARCH INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPLANT POWERED METRO NEW YORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Association of Kidney Patients Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $10,000 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.

The New York Communit…The Ford FoundationAltman FoundationPinkerton FoundationBrooklyn Community Fo…Tides FoundationJewish Communal FundSilicon Valley Commun…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…
The New York Community TrustNY14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · Altman Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America

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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Emily Davie and Joseph S Kornfeld Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Emily Davie and Joseph S Kornfeld Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Emily Davie and Joseph S Kornfeld 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 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.

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