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The Holliday 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.

$235k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$4.4MHealth$451kFood & Nutrition$225kAnimals$148kArts & Culture$110kPhilanthropy$95kYouth Development$70kInternational$63kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $186k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$5,505
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK RACING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC$100,000
FOOD 1ST FOUNDATION$25,000
INTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDATION$25,000
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH$25,000
MEORORG$20,600
THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN$20,000
CHELSEA PIERS FOUNDATION$15,000
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$15,000
FDNY FOUNDATION$10,400
PUBLICOLOR$10,000
JEWISH FUTURES FOUNDATION INC$10,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$10,000
ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION$7,500
Individual grant recipient$5,520
METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH PROPERTY$5,505
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $20k → 6%Covenant House New Jersey: $500 → 16%Covenant House New Jersey: $500 → 16%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $8k → 6%CHELSEA PIERS FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES TODAY (LIFT): $5k → 20%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES TODAY (LIFT): $5k → 20%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES TODAY (LIFT): $3k → 20%FAMILY LEGAL CARE: $5k → 17%YO DIGO NO MAS: $3k → 9%YO DIGO NO MAS: $3k → 9%FAMILY LEGAL CARE: $5k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $2k → 17%Covenant House: $1k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%Covenant House: $1k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH PROPERTY: $6k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $8k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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NH
MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
SC
DC
FL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 41 repeat orgs$894k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
71

Total granted

$4.8M
$746k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+10%

Still filing today

63%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • LU
    LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +69%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
    6× · 2017–2022 · $811k · revenue +10%
  • MS
    MASTERS SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2021 · $545k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • JS
    JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue -66%
  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HEALTH
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • TI
    THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -35%
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.

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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
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
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
4
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
5
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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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
7
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
8
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
9
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
10
The New York and Presbyterian Hospital

To be a leader in the provision of world class patient care, teaching, research, and service to local, state, national, and international communities. newyork-presbyterian hospital is one of the nation's most comprehensive, integrated…

Health
11
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
12
Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of New York City; the most unlike its peers is Akindale Rehabilitation & Land Conservation Fund. 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

89 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. 89 of the 128 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
85/89
Grantees still filing
55/89
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $1,661,000 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $810,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RICHMONDTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $175,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF N…+8 more: $103,923 · EducationTHE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF UVA: $800,000 · OtherTHE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF UVAMASTERS SCHOOL: $544,953 · OtherMASTERS SCHOOLCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - THE JONATHAN SCHILLER FUND: $130,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - THE JONATHAN SCHILLE…NYU LANGONE HEALTH: $75,000 · Other+73 more: $686,669 · Other+73 moreJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY: $15,000 · Philanthropy+6 more: $8,382 · PhilanthropyFOOD 1ST FOUNDATION: $192,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFDNY FOUNDATION INC: $50,400 · Public Safety & Disaster+1 more: $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $45,000 · HealthCOPD FOUNDATION INC: $43,384 · HealthWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $25,000 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $12,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 · HealthNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $8,500 · Health+9 more: $19,500 · HealthNEW YORK RACING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $100,000 · AnimalsTONY BLAIR AFRICA GOVERNANCE INITIATIVE -US D/B/A TONY BLAIR FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Animals+3 more: $5,100 · AnimalsINTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureKYRENIA OPERA INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $15,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SKYSCRAPER MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $2,465 · Arts & Culture
Education$2,750,423Other$2,236,622Philanthropy$323,382Public Safety & Disaster$243,400Health$163,384Animals$110,100Arts & Culture$92,465

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $1,661,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $810,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMASTERS SCHOOL: $544,953 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD 1ST FOUNDATION: $192,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $175,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK RACING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetPUBLICOLOR INC: $57,650 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFDNY FOUNDATION INC: $50,400 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOPD FOUNDATION INC: $43,384 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $30,425 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont Child Care Association Inc: $27,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $26,753 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKYRENIA OPERA INC: $20,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHELSEA PIERS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARATOGA SPRINGS PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAKINDALE REHABILITATION & LAND CONSERVATION FUND: $12,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMet Council Inc: $10,300 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetColby-Sawyer College: $10,169 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTREETSQUASH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAILEYS HOPE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJewish Women International: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SKYSCRAPER MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMAROON AND WHITE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNEW YORK BUILDING FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $5,505 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYo Digo No Mas Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTONY BLAIR AFRICA GOVERNANCE INITIATIVE -US D/B/A TONY BLAIR FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLETS WIN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPENINSULA PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,000 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.

United Way Miami IncJewish Communal FundMay and Samuel Rudin …Kpf Foundation Co Koh…Viking Global Foundat…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The New York Communit…Summit Ov FoundationThe Feil Family Found…Nazee & Joseph Moinia…Lori & Michael Nash F…The Riggio Foundation
United Way Miami IncFL23× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Miami Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Kpf Foundation Co Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC · Viking Global Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Summit Ov Foundation · The Feil Family Foundation (Formerly Louis & Gertrude Feil Foundation Inc) · Nazee & Joseph Moinian Foundation · Lori & Michael Nash Foundation · The Riggio Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Covenant House New Jersey Inc: 34% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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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How do I get to The Holliday Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Holliday 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 128 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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