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The Fagenson Family Foundation at a glance

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The Fagenson Family 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.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$2k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$75kAnimals$21kEducation$16kPhilanthropy$14kHealth$14kArts & Culture$13kRecreation & Sports$9kHuman Services$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
19
States reached
$88k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hebrew Congregation of St Thomas$1,500
Carl Schurz Park Association$1,250
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Hudson Catholic High School$1,000
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue$1,000
International Tennis Hall of Fame$1,000
Pilots to the Rescue$600
Oakhurst Independent Hose Co$500
Chabad of Palm Beach$500
AMA Animal Rescue$500
South Hampton Hospital Foundation$500
World Wildlife Fund$500
ChildFund International$400
Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue$350
Second Chances for Blind Dogs Fdn$350
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 (FY17–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Guiding Eyes for the Blind: $100 → 9%Susie Reizod Foundation: $1k → 16%Good Dog Foundation: $250 → 20%Kids Wish Network: $250 → 11%Kids Wish Network: $200 → 12%Wounded Warrior Project: $200 → 14%Guiding Eyes for the Blind: $100 → 9%Good Dog Foundation: $250 → 20%Kids Wish Network: $100 → 11%Wounded Warrior Project: $200 → 14%Kids Wish Network: $100 → 11%Kids Wish Network: $100 → 11%American Red Cross: $350 → 14%Project EZRA: $250 → 17%Project Erza: $500 → 17%Project Ezra: $500 → 17%Project Erza: $150 → 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
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
UT
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AR
TN
SC
DC
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$167k · 75 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

75 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
68

Total granted

$167k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+19%

Still filing today

71%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
AnimalsHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CF
    Centurion Foundation Inc
    3× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +8%
  • EC
    ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL
    2× · 2018–2022 · $8k · revenue +29%
  • RT
    RISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST
    3× · 2021–2023 · $7k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • MO
    Museum of Modern Art
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +12%
  • PB
    PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • UW
    United Way of Palm Beach County Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -8%
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
World Animal Protection

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…

Animals
2
Four Paws International Inc

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.

Animals
3
Animal Wellness Action

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.

Human Services
4
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
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
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
7
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

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…

Arts & Culture
8
The Humane League

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…

Animals
9
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
10
Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals
11
Humane Farm Animal Care

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

Animals
12
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

104 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 104 of the 161 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/104
Grantees still filing
80/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED MUNKACSER YESHIVOS: $35,000 · OtherUNITED MUNKACSER YESHIVOSCONGREGATION EMANUEL: $27,500 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANUELRISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST: $6,700 · Other+96 more: $66,934 · Other+96 moreTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $3,000 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL …BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,050 · AnimalsBEST FRIEND…Wildlife Conservation Society: $1,750 · AnimalsWildlife Co…NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $1,500 · AnimalsNATIONAL WI…PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC: $1,400 · AnimalsPILOTS TO T…Home For Good Dog Rescue Inc: $1,350 · AnimalsHome For Go…THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,200 · AnimalsTHE AMERICA…SECOND CHANCES FOR BLIND DOGS FOUNDATION INC: $1,150 · AnimalsSECOND CHAN…BIDEAWEE INC: $1,050 · AnimalsANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $950 · AnimalsPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $850 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $800 · Animals+15 more: $4,325 · Animals+15 moreCenturion Foundation Inc: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCenturion…THE BUTTONWOOD FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · PhilanthropyTHE BUTTO…United Way of Palm Beach County Inc: $2,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Wa…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,100 · PhilanthropyUNITED JE…+2 more: $350 · PhilanthropyMuseum of Modern Art: $6,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,950 · Arts & CultureAXELROD PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $1,250 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT HATFUTSOT D/B/A AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANU-MUSEUM: $1,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $575 · Arts & CultureETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $7,500 · EducationTHE SIGMA ALPHA MU FOUNDATION: $1,500 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $750 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $3,000 · InternationalCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $2,230 · InternationalTHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC: $1,500 · InternationalPRODUCE GOOD FRUIT INC: $300 · International+3 more: $750 · InternationalTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 · HealthCALVARY HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $800 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $650 · HealthAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $550 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $400 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $400 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $300 · Health+2 more: $300 · Health
Other$136,134Animals$21,375Philanthropy$16,950Arts & Culture$12,275Education$9,750International$7,780Health$6,650

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 budgetCenturion Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST: $6,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUTTONWOOD FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $2,230 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $1,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SIGMA ALPHA MU FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARL SCHURZ PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProject Ezra: $1,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC: $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHome For Good Dog Rescue Inc: $1,350 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAXELROD PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCES FOR BLIND DOGS FOUNDATION INC: $1,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIDEAWEE INC: $1,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT HATFUTSOT D/B/A AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANU-MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALVARY HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUSIE REIZOD FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL CHILD PROTECTION TASK FORC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFDNY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FOUNDATION: $800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS WISH NETWORK INC: $750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $700 over 3y, 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 FundSeckinger Foundation …Surendra and Karen Gu…Morris & Arlene Goldf…Gat Family FoundationPC Fund for Animals C…Farrell Family Founda…Butchkie Foundation I…The J R Stein Family …Joyce a Ward Foundati…Grace and Li Yu Famil…Bradford Family Found…
Jewish Communal FundNY22.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Fagenson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fagenson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
14report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Fagenson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Fagenson Family 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 161 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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