· Private foundation
The Fagenson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Museum of Modern Art | $6,000 |
| Centurion Foundation | $2,500 |
| American Friends of Hebrew Universi | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,250 |
| Shore Friends of Rising Treetops | $2,000 |
| United Way of Palm Beach County | $2,000 |
| Palm Beach Country Club Foundation | $2,000 |
| Buttonwood Foundation | $2,000 |
| Palm Beach Synagogue | $1,250 |
| Planned Parentenhood of Greater New | $1,250 |
| South Hampton Hospital Foundation | $1,000 |
| Animal Medical Center | $1,000 |
| ChildFund International | $900 |
| Tunnels to Towers Foundation | $750 |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | $750 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CFCenturion Foundation Inc3× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +8%
- ECETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL2× · 2018–2022 · $8k · revenue +29%
- RTRISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST3× · 2021–2023 · $7k · revenue +62%
Funded once
AXELROD PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +77%- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +40%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT HATFUTSOT D/B/A AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANU-MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +105%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…
Our vision is a world where humans treat animals with respect, empathy and understanding. four paws mission is to be the strong, global and independent voice for animals.
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.
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."
Every farmer and rancher participating in the Certified Humane program had to modify their operations to meet the Animal Care Standards and be certified. Schedule O
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is Centurion Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
97 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. 97 of the 144 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Centurion Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds THE BUTTONWOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds CARL SCHURZ PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds THE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SIGMA ALPHA MU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Project Ezra ↗
- Who funds Home For Good Dog Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AXELROD PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT HATFUTSOT D/B/A AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANU-MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHILD PROTECTION TASK FORC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · Morris & Arlene Goldfarb Family Foundation Inc · Gat Family Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Farrell Family Foundation · Butchkie Foundation Inc · The J R Stein Family Foundation (F/K/A the Stein Family Fund) · Joyce a Ward Foundation · Grace and Li Yu Family Foundation · Bradford Family Foundation
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 Fagenson Family 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.
- Axelrod Performing Arts Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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