· Private foundation
The Horowitch Family Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
54% of The Horowitch Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Trustees Of Hamilton College, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUSTEES OF HAMILTON COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $23,000 |
| I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| TEMPLE SOCIETY OF CONCORD | $3,460 |
| THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION | $2,900 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF NAPLES | $2,500 |
| CROUSE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| CAZCARES INC | $1,500 |
| ST JOSEPH'S HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,230 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| CAZENOVIA LAKE ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| MENORAH PARK FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
34 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +45%- CICazCares Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +71%
- TRTHE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- IEISRAEL EMERGENCY RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2023 · $1k
- SWSHADOW WOOD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $769 · revenue +37%
- SJSYRACUSE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2021 · $250
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central New York Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cazenovia Lake Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 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. 24 of the 49 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 Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
- Who funds VERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CROUSE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CazCares Inc ↗
- Who funds MENORAH PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE ↗
- Who funds THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAZENOVIA LAKE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Le Moyne College ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPHS HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHADOW WOOD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MANLIUS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation · The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Lewis Roth Family Foundation · The Mitchell and Louis Shulman Charitable Trust · The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc · Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc · Collier Community Foundation 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 The Horowitch Family Foundation 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
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.