· Private foundation
The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k66 grants · $201k
- $10k–50k127 grants · $2.5M
- $50k–250k57 grants · $4.8M
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC | $400,000 |
| BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC | $200,000 |
| PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK INC | $200,000 |
| CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION | $200,000 |
| JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC | $150,000 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER INC | $150,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC | $150,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER CONEY ISLAND INC | $135,000 |
| JAMAICA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | $120,000 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $110,000 |
| JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC | $110,000 |
| HEALTHCARE EDUCATIONAL & RESEARCH FUND INC | $110,000 |
| NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN-QUEENS | $110,000 |
| MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER | $104,000 |
| NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $90,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $993k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
254 repeat relationships — 179 still active in FY2025, 75 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- BABROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +78%
- TCTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION5× · 2021–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +84%
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $800k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- VNVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORKone grant, 2023 · $149k · revenue +21%
- LCLifetime Center for Child DEvelopmentone grant, 2023 · $69k
- FAFIND AID FOR THE AGED INCone grant, 2021 · $66k · revenue +14%
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.
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…
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
The perelman performing arts center creates connections by cultivating bonds between extraordinary artists and communities with exemplary performances in active dialogue across the arts in our flexible intimate spaces, inviting…
See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…
For more than a century, diller-quaile has offered an environment where music can flourish in all its aspects, enriching the lives of students of all ages and cultural backgrounds. the belief that music is a fundamental part of human life…
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
Based in ny city the company focuses on producing and developing new opera and music theater works and rviving rarely seen american operas written after world war. teh center for contemporary operas ha sstaged the premiers of over seventy…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Stage Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
362 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. 362 of the 396 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHCARE EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds SERVICE PROGRAM FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR SERVICES FOR THE AGED ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds SEARCH AND CARE INC ↗
- Who funds ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DISCALCED INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT RENEWAL INC ↗
- Who funds National Association on Drug Abuse Problems (New York State) Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPANISH THEATRE REPERTORY COMPANY LTD ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds ENCORE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF LEGAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN 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: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The New York Community Trust · Robin Hood Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc
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 Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc 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.
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd — 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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