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The Hymowitz Family Foundation Trust at a glance

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The Hymowitz Family Foundation Trust

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.

$2.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$791k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.4MArts & Culture$1.5MHealth$375kHuman Services$320kRecreation & Sports$275kReligion$179kPhilanthropy$25kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $86k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $515k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUKE UNIVERSITY$791,334
YOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX$330,000
SHED NYC INC$300,000
RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL$275,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC$150,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$115,000
CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION$100,000
YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION$100,000
BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION$50,000
NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND$30,000
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$25,000
SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET$20,500
THE 92ND STREET Y$10,350
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 (FY24–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%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.
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 8 repeat orgs$870k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$4.2M
$370k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
0%

Still filing today

88%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthRecreation & SportsReligionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +49%
  • YA
    YOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +109%
  • RC
    RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $975k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • 9S
    92ND STREET YMYMHA
    one grant, 2020 · $285k
  • B
    BABY2BABY
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
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.

1
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
New York University School of Law Foundation

The foundation, a subsidiary of new york university, fosters legal education and research at new york university's school of law by awarding scholarships, making grants for educational purposes related to law, and supporting programs of…

Education
5
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…

Recreation & Sports
6
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
7
Institute of Fine Arts Foundation

Supports the nyu institute of fine arts, a division of the nyu graduate school of arts and science; which is devoted to graduate teaching and research in the history of art and archeology and the conservation of works of art.

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8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
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
11
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Manhattanville University

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association. 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
6/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,424,667 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $975,000 · EducationRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC+1 more: $10,000 · EducationYOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX INC: $1,010,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX INCSHED NYC INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureSHED NYC INCSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $88,500 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INCBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Arts & Culture92ND STREET YMYMHA: $284,700 · Other92ND STREET Y…MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $240,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOA…BABY2BABY: $25,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $25,000 · Other+5 more: $50,000 · Other+5 moreTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $214,430 · ReligionCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $120,000 · Health
Education$2,409,667Arts & Culture$1,448,500Other$624,700Religion$214,430Recreation & Sports$150,000Human Services$125,000Health$120,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,424,667 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX INC: $1,010,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $975,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $214,430 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $88,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNY COMMUNITY FRIDGE CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABY2BABY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Hymowitz Family Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hymowitz Family Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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