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Grodzins Fund

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.

$227k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$187kEducation$174kCivil Rights$118kHuman Services$84kHealth$58kFood & Nutrition$57kEnvironment$54kInternational$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $96k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $131k
$2,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES$25,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY$20,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$20,000
CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS$15,000
BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION$11,000
WILMER EYE INSTITUTE$10,000
INTERNET ARCHIVE$10,000
CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST$10,000
NYCLU FOUNDATION$10,000
PROPUBLICA$7,500
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$7,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
AMERICAN PROSPECT$5,000
DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION$5,000
SYMPHONY SPACE$5,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $10k → 10%GALLOPNYC: $3k → 13%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $10k → 10%GALLOPNYC: $3k → 13%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $10k → 10%GALLOPNYC: $3k → 13%THE READING TEAM: $2k → 17%THE READING TEAM: $2k → 17%THE READING TEAM: $2k → 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

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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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$675k · 44 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
23

Total granted

$675k
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

75%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • TN
    The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations
    5× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +55%
  • MS
    MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $65k · revenue +40%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $45k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • CO
    CORNERSTONES OF SCIENCEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +35%
  • AO
    AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +37%
  • WE
    Wilmer Eye Institute
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

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.

1
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
4
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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11
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
12
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is The Neue Galerie New York. 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 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr18%18%20–35yr16%29%35–55yr15%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr18%13%20–35yr16%29%35–55yr15%42%55yr+

The field is 20% 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 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,946

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

53 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. 53 of the 73 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
33/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $90,000 · EducationThe New York Public Library…Massachusetts Institute of Technology — $26,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of …BEHIND THE BOOK INC — $25,000 · EducationBEHIND THE BOOK INCBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION — $15,000 · EducationBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUC…CORNERSTONES OF SCIENCE — $10,000 · EducationAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC — $10,000 · Education+6 more — $25,000 · Education+6 moreFOTOEVIDENCE — $20,000 · OtherFOTOEVIDENCEFotoEvidence — $17,500 · OtherFotoEvidenceTHE SYMPHONY SPACE INC — $15,000 · OtherTHE SYMPHONY SPACE INCCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER — $15,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL C…WILMER EYE INSTITUTE — $10,000 · OtherColumbia University, Medical Center — $10,000 · OtherWilmer Eye Institute — $10,000 · OtherMONTEGO BAY ANIMAL HAVEN BREDEFEL & ASSOC — $7,500 · OtherWSCAH — $7,500 · OtherCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $35,000 · OtherCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT IN…THE RYR-1 FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Other+19 more — $58,000 · Other+19 moreCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS — $45,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CONST…NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Civil RightsNEW YORK CIVIL L…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL L…ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE — $15,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR JUS…THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $12,500 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR R…MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC — $65,000 · InternationalMUSTARD SEED…American Friends of Jamaica Inc — $20,000 · InternationalAmerican Fri…THE ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATIONINC — $5,000 · International+3 more — $3,750 · InternationalTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN B…PRO PUBLICA INC — $12,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA …NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $9,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHA…THE BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER — $9,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BRONX DO…THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $7,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARM…THE AMERICAN PROSPECT INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN…FILM INDEPENDENT — $5,000 · Arts & CultureFILM INDEPEN…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $4,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK — $4,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $4,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $9,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST — $40,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $15,000 · Food & NutritionInternet Archive — $30,000 · Human ServicesGIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC — $11,000 · Human ServicesREADING TEAM INC — $6,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human Services
Education$201,000Other$215,500Civil Rights$117,500International$93,750Arts & Culture$93,000Food & Nutrition$55,000Human Services$48,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternet Archive — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBEHIND THE BOOK INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Friends of Jamaica Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SYMPHONY SPACE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION — $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC — $11,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCORNERSTONES OF SCIENCE — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RYR-1 FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER — $9,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREADING TEAM INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN PROSPECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATIONINC — $5,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEGO BAY ANIMAL HAVEN LIMITED — $3,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLANDMARK WEST INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetReal News Project Inc — $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTrust Women Foundation Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISCALCED INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY — $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Girls Foundation of Tanzania — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $1,000 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.

The Ford FoundationThe New York Communit…Cornelia T Bailey Cha…The Hyde and Watson F…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…American Express Foun…Boston Foundation IncJpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…
The Ford FoundationNY17.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Express Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Grodzins Fund 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
9report 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

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 Grodzins Fund?

Find your warmest path to Grodzins Fund 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 73 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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