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The Foundation To-Life Inc

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.

$26k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Arts & Culture$125kEducation$100kReligion$37kInternational$11kCivil Rights$10kCrime & Legal$5kHealth$3kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,800
Median grant
3
States reached
$166k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Congregation Shearith Israel$7,700
New Museum$5,000
The Jewish Museum$3,450
Friends of the IDF$1,800
Birthright Israel Foundation$1,800
Aish Global$1,800
Hunter College Foundation$1,500
Seeds of Peace$1,500
Hillel International$1,000
New York Stem Cell Foundation$500
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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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%International Documentary Association: $10k → 14%Guild Hall Art Center: $5k → 7%The Sculpture Center: $2k → 13%White Columns: $1k → 17%United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $8k → 14%Aish Global: $2k → 12%Jewish Foundation for the Righteous: $1k → 16%US Holocaust Museum: $4k → 14%US Holocaust Museum: $4k → 14%American University Museum (Brooklyn Exhibition Kalinorska): $3k → 14%AISH Global: $4k → 17%ArtTable: $4k → 17%ArtTable: $3k → 17%ArtTable: $2k → 17%Congregation Shearith Israel: $9k → 17%Congregation Shearith Israel: $8k → 17%Congregation Shearith Israel: $7k → 17%Congregation Shearith Israel: $5k → 17%Studio in a School Association: $2k → 17%Studio in a School: $2k → 17%Stephen Petronio Dance Company: $5k → 17%Art21org: $4k → 17%Art21org: $2k → 17%Art21org: $2k → 17%Hunter College Foundation: $68k → 17%Hunter College Foundation: $20k → 17%Hunter College Angel Fund: $4k → 17%Hunter College Library Fund: $3k → 17%Hunter Hillel: $3k → 17%Hunter College Scholarship Welfare Fund: $2k → 17%A Better Balance: $5k → 17%Hunter College Foundation: $2k → 17%Friends of the IDF: $2k → 17%The Jewish Museum: $4k → 17%The Jewish Museum: $3k → 17%The Jewish Museum: $3k → 17%The Jewish Museum: $2k → 17%92nd Street Y: $2k → 17%The New Museum: $10k → 17%New Museum: $5k → 17%Independent Curators International: $5k → 17%Independent Curators International: $5k → 17%Independent Curators International: $3k → 17%The Drawing Center: $2k → 17%American Friends of the Israel Museum: $4k → 17%American Friends of the Israel Museum: $2k → 17%National Dance Institute: $1k → 17%National Dance Institute: $1k → 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
PA
NJ
CA
MO
DC
TX
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$234k · 21 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
48

Total granted

$234k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
0%

Still filing today

81%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalReligionEducationCivil RightsOther

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

  • TH
    THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $89k · revenue +24%
  • NM
    New Museum of Contemporary Art
    2× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +13%
  • IC
    INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL
    3× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -17%
  • GH
    Guild Hall Art Center
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • AB
    A BETTER BALANCE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -29%

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.

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The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Berggruen Institute
Education
4
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
5
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
6
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
The Contemporary Jewish Museum

The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Arts & Culture
12
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Stage Inc and the most unlike its peers is A Better Balance 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 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr20%22%20–35yr14%51%35–55yr13%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr20%7%20–35yr14%79%35–55yr13%13%55yr+

The field is 19% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
11%
3,719/33,134

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

48 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. 48 of the 74 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
24/48
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $89,000 · EducationTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC+2 more — $1,000 · EducationThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $16,100 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memo…New Museum of Contemporary Art — $15,000 · Arts & CultureNew Museum of Contemporary ArtINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL — $12,000 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATION…THE JEWISH MUSEUM — $11,550 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUMINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDA…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM — $7,050 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL M…NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE — $3,500 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $10,850 · Arts & Culture+10 moreCongregation Shearith Israel — $29,020 · OtherCongregation Shearith IsraelArt21org — $7,000 · OtherArt21orgSTEPHEN PETRONIO DANCE COMPANY INC — $6,500 · OtherSTEPHEN PETRONIO DANCE COMPANY INCGuild Hall Art Center — $5,000 · OtherGuild Hall Art CenterAMERICAN RENAISSANCE THEATER CORPORATION — $4,000 · OtherAISH Global — $3,600 · OtherHunter College Angel Fund — $3,500 · OtherA BETTER BALANCE INC — $5,000 · OtherA BETTER BALANCE INC+36 more — $28,600 · Other+36 moreAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $9,700 · Civil RightsARTTABLE INC — $8,300 · Public BenefitSEEDS OF PEACE INC — $3,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $1,800 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $1,800 · InternationalTHE ASIA SOCIETY — $1,000 · InternationalTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $2,800 · ReligionAISH GLOBAL INC — $1,800 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $1,000 · ReligionAMERICAN JEWISH HERITAGE ORGANIZATION — $1,000 · Religion
Education$90,000Arts & Culture$86,050Other$92,220Civil Rights$9,700Public Benefit$8,300International$7,600Religion$6,600

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $89,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $16,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL — $12,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $11,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $9,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARTTABLE INC — $8,300 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM — $7,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN PETRONIO DANCE COMPANY INC — $6,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetA BETTER BALANCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DRAWING CENTER INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCULPTURE CENTER INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE COLUMNS INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREMA HORT MANN FOUNDATION INC — $1,650 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVE TIME INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH HERITAGE ORGANIZATION — $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTER HILLEL FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM STAGE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY COMMUNITY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York City Rescue Mission — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMacular Degeneration Association — $100 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.

Jewish Communal FundTeiger FoundationArison Arts FoundationAg FoundationThe Andy Warhol Found…Martin & Rebecca Eise…The Ford FoundationTides FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
Jewish Communal FundNY17.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Teiger Foundation · Arison Arts Foundation · Ag Foundation · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Martin & Rebecca Eisenberg Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Foundation To-Life 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Foundation To-Life Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Foundation To-Life Inc 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 74 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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