· Private foundation
The Henry & Carolyn Sue Orenstein Foundation C/O Carolyn Sue Orenstein
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of THE HENRY & CAROLYN SUE ORENSTEIN FOUNDATION C/O CAROLYN SUE ORENSTEIN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORENSTEIN PROJECT (RA) | $1,500,000 |
| METRO NY COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY | $1,100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEURO OPTHAMOLOGY GIFT FUND | $10,000 |
| SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTION LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| BETH HAMEDRASH ANSHEI H'RUBISHOV | $5,000 |
| VERONA PBA LOCAL 72 | $4,800 |
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 US giving — 50% of grant dollars ($11M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 50% that went abroad ($11M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $10.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
Beyond the US — 50% of all-years giving ($11M)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +88% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MNMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY9× · 2017–2025 · $10M · revenue +142%
- SCSecond Chance Pet Adoption League Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +42%
- VPVERONA PBA LOCAL #72 INC9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- TOTHE ORENSTEIN PROJECT CO S RAVIV & COone grant, 2017 · $1.5M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
7 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. 7 of the 29 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
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 METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY ↗
- Who funds Second Chance Pet Adoption League Inc ↗
- Who funds VERONA PBA LOCAL #72 INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERONA RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Henry & Carolyn Sue Orenstein Foundation C/O Carolyn Sue Orenstein 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.
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.