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The Engelberg Foundation at a glance

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The Engelberg Foundation

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.

$325k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$8.8MHealth$5.4MCrime & Legal$3.5MEducation$535kPhilanthropy$135kPublic Benefit$133kHousing & Shelter$90kReligion$74kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
$7,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NYU LAW SCHOOL$150,000
EMBER CHARTER SCHOOLS$100,000
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART$15,000
CENTAL SYNAGOGUE$10,275
BOY & GIRL CLUBS$10,000
RELIGIOUS ACTION CENTER OF REFORM JUDAISM$10,000
ASPEN ART MUSEUM$10,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH$7,500
ASPEN ART MUSEUM$3,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH$2,500
MOMA$1,500
METROPOLITIAN MUSEUM OF ART$1,500
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$1,000
CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION$1,000
HEARING OVARIAN CANCER WHISPER$750
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%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
MA
NJ
CO
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.1M · 42 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
39

Total granted

$8.1M
$10M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+32%

Still filing today

64%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $261k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalSocial ScienceEducationAnimalsOther
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

  • JA
    JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +18%
  • SR
    SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.4M · revenue +43%
  • NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $624k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5.0M
  • NY
    NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
    one grant, 2021 · $2.5M
  • NS
    NATIONAL SOCIETY OF GENETIC COUNSELORSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1.5M · revenue +50% · 43% of their budget
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
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
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
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
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
6
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
7
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
8
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
9
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
10
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.

—
11
The American Federation of Arts Inc

The american federation of arts initiates and organizes a national and international program of art exhibitions, publications, and educational activities to benefit the museum community and enrich the public's experience and understanding…

Arts & Culture
12
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

53 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. 53 of the 89 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
41/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $5,050,000 · OtherTHE GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATIONICHAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MT SINAI: $3,203,000 · OtherICHAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MT SINAINEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW: $2,500,000 · OtherNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAWNYU SCHOOL OF LAW: $1,000,000 · OtherNYU SCHOOL OF LAW+47 more: $1,345,900 · Other+47 moreNATIONAL SOCIETY OF GENETIC COUNSELORS: $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL SOCIETY OF GENETIC COU…JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $1,380,000 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INCSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $1,369,500 · Arts & CultureSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATIONNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $624,000 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC+12 more: $288,050 · Arts & Culture+12 moreUNITED HOSPITAL FUND OF NEW YORK: $205,000 · HealthPROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC: $10,000 · Health+8 more: $16,750 · HealthCLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC: $130,500 · ReligionASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $47,700 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $22,500 · PhilanthropyTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $17,500 · PhilanthropyTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $73,000 · Social Science+1 more: $2,000 · Social ScienceSAVE VENICE INC: $30,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $5,000 · InternationalISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC: $5,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $1,800 · International+1 more: $360 · International
Other$13,098,900Arts & Culture$5,161,550Health$231,750Religion$130,500Philanthropy$117,700Social Science$75,000International$42,160

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 budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY OF GENETIC COUNSELORS: $1,500,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $1,380,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $1,369,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $624,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetSTOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $278,700 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetUNITED HOSPITAL FUND OF NEW YORK: $205,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC: $130,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC: $127,200 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $73,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $47,700 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER: $34,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE VENICE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetASPEN ART MUSEUM: $30,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $12,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Society Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP AVODA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $2,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach Civic Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCUREFA FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUDDY PROGRAM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetManhattan University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RYAN LICHT SANG BIPOLAR FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $750 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY OF GENETIC COUNSELORS ↗
  • Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED HOSPITAL FUND OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVE VENICE INC ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds The Carnegie Hall Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗

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 FundGs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY13.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Engelberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Engelberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Center for Creative Education: 2% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
8report 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
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.

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 89 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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