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The Giving Bee Family Foundation at a glance

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The Giving Bee 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.

$964k
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.1MEducation$144kReligion$70kEnvironment$45kYouth Development$38kHuman Services$30kSocial Science$25kRecreation & Sports$24kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $403k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $535k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK INC$75,000
NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC$70,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC$70,000
BRUCE MUSEUM INC$70,000
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS IN$50,000
LINCOLN CENTER THEATER$50,000
TEMPLE SHOLOM INC$50,000
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC$50,000
GREENWICH LIBRARY$50,000
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC$30,000
MERCATUS CENTER INC$25,000
PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK INC$25,000
MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC$25,000
ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC$25,000
MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC$25,000
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 (FY22–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JEWISH COMMUNITY PROJECT OF LOWER MANHATTAN: $15k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY PROJECT OF LOWER MANHATTAN: $15k → 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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Giving Bee Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Giving Bee Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$992k · 20 repeat orgs$497k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
7

Total granted

$992k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
0%

Still filing today

85%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $437k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyEmploymentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • NF
    NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $91k · revenue +15%
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +24%
  • TW
    THE WHITBY SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    3× · 2022–2024 · $47k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • RH
    REMA HORT MANN FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -86%
  • GF
    Greenwich Forward INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • TS
    THE STECHER AND HOROWITZ FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -60%
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
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
4
New Museum of Contemporary Art

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Theatre for a New Audience Inc

The mission of theatre for a new audience is to develop and vitalize the performance and study of shakespeare and classic drama. the theatre is dedicated to the language and ideas of writers - to a dialogue over centuries between…

Arts & Culture
6
Mccarter Theatre Company

Mccarter is one of the country's flagship theatres and a cultural asset for all of central new jersey. a nationally renowned, independent performing arts center located on the campus of princeton university, the company is a…

Arts & Culture
7
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Associates Inc

The general purpose of the organization is to promote chamber music concerts to the general public.

Arts & Culture
8
San Francisco Opera Association

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Westchester Philharmonic Inc

The westchester philharmonic provides innovative performances, and educational programs,showcasing new musicians, composers and conductors,and is committed to being an inclusive organization that invites and attracts people of diverse…

Arts & Culture
10
Signature Theatre Company Inc

Signature theatre celebrates playwrights and gives them an artistic home. signature makes an extended commitment to a playwright's body of work, producing several plays by each resident writer and delivering an intimate and immersive…

Arts & Culture
11
Bang On a Can

Presenting, commissioning, performing, recording and teaching contemporary music. bang on a can believes in exposing exciting new music as broadly and accessibly as possible. through it's summer institute, bang on a can hopes to bring this…

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc; the most unlike its peers is Greenwich Forward Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
22/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $170,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INCBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureBRUCE MUSEUM INCTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INCNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INC: $91,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INCNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY CENTER INCTHE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INCROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $57,000 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INCTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSUMMER THEATRE OF NEW CANAAN INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureGREENWICH ARTS COUNCIL INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureGREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $37,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $197,500 · Arts & Culture+12 moreTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY: $97,500 · EducationTHE GREENW…THE WHITBY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $46,900 · EducationTHE WHITBY…TEMPLE SHOLOM INC: $65,000 · OtherTEMPLE SHOLO…GREENWICH RIDING & TRAILS ASSOCIATION INC: $22,000 · OtherGREENWICH RI…NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $15,000 · OtherNATIONAL AUD…ROUND HILL ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 · OtherROUND HILL A…Mercatus Center Inc: $25,000 · OtherMercatus Cen…Greenwich Forward INC: $10,000 · OtherGreenwich Fo…+3 more: $12,000 · Other+3 moreGREENWICH BOTANICAL CENTER INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentTHE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH: $37,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY PROJECT OF LOWER MANHATTAN: $30,000 · Human ServicesREMA HORT MANN FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$1,037,500Education$144,400Other$164,000Environment$45,000Youth Development$37,500Human Services$30,000Philanthropy$30,000

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 budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $170,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $125,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY: $97,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INC: $91,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $70,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $57,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WHITBY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $46,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMER THEATRE OF NEW CANAAN INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetGREENWICH ARTS COUNCIL INC: $40,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH: $37,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $37,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY PROJECT OF LOWER MANHATTAN: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMUSIC FORWARD: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGREENWICH BOTANICAL CENTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetORCHESTRA LUMOS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMercatus Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWICH RIDING & TRAILS ASSOCIATION INC: $22,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetREMA HORT MANN FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STECHER AND HOROWITZ FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOFFEE FOR GOOD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStamford Museum & Nature Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOutdoors for all Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Giving Bee Founda…Malkin Fund IncCornelia Cogswell Ros…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundConnecticut Humanitie…The John L and Sue An…The Resource Foundati…The Goergen Foundatio…S & L Marx FoundationIbm International Fou…Fairfield County's Co…
The Giving Bee FoundationDE22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Giving Bee Foundation · Malkin Fund Inc · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The John L and Sue Ann Weinberg Foundation · The Resource Foundation Inc · The Goergen Foundation Inc · S & L Marx Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich: 7% of income from government
  • Greenwich Arts Council Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Orchestra Lumos Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Greenwich Symphony Orchestra Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Summer Theatre of New Canaan Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
  • National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 Giving Bee Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Giving Bee 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 40 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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