How much does The Herbert and Dorothy Kunstadt Foundation Inc give?

The Herbert and Dorothy Kunstadt Foundation Inc reported 50 grants totaling $28,272 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Herbert and Dorothy Kunstadt Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), International (22%), Arts & Culture (13%).

Who are The Herbert and Dorothy Kunstadt Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Friends of Hebrew University Inc ($161k), American Friends of Magen David Adom ($58k), American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ($53k).

Does The Herbert and Dorothy Kunstadt Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Herbert and Dorothy Kunstadt Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Herbert and Dorothy Kunstadt Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Setton Foundation, F G Foundation, House of Gross Foundation Inc.

Where is The Herbert and Dorothy Kunstadt Foundation Inc based?

The Herbert and Dorothy Kunstadt Foundation Inc is based in NY.

The Herbert and Dorothy Kunstadt Foundation Inc

The Herbert and Dorothy Kunstadt Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Herbert and Dorothy Kunstadt Foundation 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.

$28k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$215kInternational$99kArts & Culture$58kReligion$35kHealth$11kPhilanthropy$11kCivil Rights$10kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0

02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k49 grants · $19k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$200

Median grant

States reached

$428k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Friends of the Israel Defence Forces	$10,000
Park East Synagogue	$3,500
Jewish Broadcasting Services	$1,580
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc	$1,296
The Metropolitan Museum of Art	$1,200
Jewish National Fund	$1,040
New York Philharmonic	$905
WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS	$630
Upper East Side Hatzolah	$532
Individual grant recipient	$500
Friends of Yad Sarah	$489
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK	$480
American Friends of Meir Panim	$480
American Jewish Committee	$430
Girls Town or Chadash	$414

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $453) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$425k · 76 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

76 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$425k

$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+18%

Still filing today

59%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $456 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther

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

AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
6× · 2017–2023 · $161k · revenue +40%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
7× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +206%
AF
American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ
4× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +50%

Funded once

MS
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $1k
FO
Friends of Israel Disbled Veterans
one grant, 2017 · $1k
LC
LANDMARK COLLEGE INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +40%

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.

Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International

Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education

Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture

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

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

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

Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement

Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education

Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

Sherit Isroel

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Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 130 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

71/71

Grantees still filing

52/71

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$290,643Other$77,761Arts & Culture$50,200Philanthropy$28,375Health$5,562Public Benefit$3,385Religion$1,543

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 Setton FoundationNY17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Setton Foundation · F G Foundation · House of Gross Foundation Inc · The Margules Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Herbert and Dorothy Kunstadt Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Herbert and Dorothy Kunstadt Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home