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The Irving T Bush Foundationinc

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.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$278kHealth$223kFood & Nutrition$128kHuman Services$126kPhilanthropy$60kArts & Culture$20kAnimals$20kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION OF NORTH JERSEY INC$5,000
CHAMINADE DEVELOPMENT FUND$5,000
USTA FOUNDATION$5,000
HEARTSHARE HUMAN SERVICES OF NEW YORK$5,000
BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION OF NORTH JERSEY INC: $5k → 7%ZAHAL SHALOM: $5k → 7%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 6%LONG ISLAND TOY LENDING CENTER: $8k → 7%HEARTSHARE HUMAN SERVICES OF NEW YORK: $5k → 20%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $5k → 6%LONG ISLAND TOY LENDING CENTER: $8k → 7%ST VINCENT'S SERVICES: $3k → 20%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $5k → 6%LONG ISLAND TOY LENDING CENTER: $8k → 7%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $3k → 6%LONG ISLAND TOY LENDING CENTER: $8k → 7%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $3k → 6%LONG ISLAND TOY LENDING CENTER: $8k → 7%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $2k → 6%LONG ISLAND TOY LENDING CENTER: $8k → 7%ST VINCENT'S SERVICES: $3k → 20%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $2k → 6%HEARTSHARE HUMAN SERVICES OF NEW YORK: $3k → 20%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 6%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$856k · 34 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
9

Total granted

$856k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+172%

Still filing today

62%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • FU
    Fordham University
    6× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +47%
  • CD
    CHAMINADE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +45%
  • CH
    CALVARY HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $58k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • IO
    ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +172%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
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
Jewish Home Lifecare Manhattan

Jewish home lifecare (d/b/a the new jewish home, manhattan), is a not-for-profit organization committed to transforming eldercare for new yorkers so they can live meaningful lives in the place they call home.

Health
3
Nysarc Inc New York City Chapter

We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.

Human Services
4
Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc

To empower new yorkers, providing integrated mental health and social services with compassion and expertise.

Human Services
5
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
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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7
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
8
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
9
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
10
Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation

To provide with compassion and dedication superior quality health care and rehabilitation for adults and to directly or indirectly coordinate arrangements and provision for comprehensive health care and social support services to frail…

Health
11
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heartshare Human Services of New York; the most unlike its peers is The Robbie Levine Foundation. 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

26 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. 26 of the 44 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTH NASSAU COMMUNITIES HOSPITAL: $40,000 · OtherSOUTH NASSAU COMMUNITIES HOSPITALSACRED HEART ACADEMY: $40,000 · OtherSACRED HEART ACADEMYNYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: $37,500 · OtherNYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTERCATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL: $35,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMOUNT SINAI SOUTH NASSAU: $30,000 · OtherMOUNT SINAI SOUTH NASSAUTHE MARY LOUIS ACADEMY: $20,000 · OtherTHE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR QUEENS OF PEACE RESIDENCE: $20,000 · OtherTHE MARY LEWIS ACADEMY: $15,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $15,000 · OtherVALENTINA KOZLOVA DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · OtherUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $15,000 · Other+12 more: $85,000 · Other+12 moreFordham University: $100,000 · EducationFordham UniversityCHAMINADE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $60,000 · EducationCHAMINADE DEVELOPMENT…ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC: $10,000 · EducationISRAEL ON CAMPUS COAL…+1 more: $5,000 · EducationST FRANCIS FOOD PANTRIES AND SHELTERS INC: $97,500 · Food & NutritionST FRANCIS FOOD…FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD ALLERGY RE…CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WH…LONG ISLAND TOY LENDING CENTER: $45,000 · Human ServicesLONG ISLAND …Belmont Child Care Association Inc: $28,500 · Human ServicesBelmont Chil…HEARTSHARE HUMAN SERVICES OF NEW YORK: $7,500 · Human ServicesHEARTSHARE H…Zahal Shalom Corp: $5,000 · Human ServicesSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH HOME FOUNDATION OF NORTH JERSEY: $5,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT'S SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCALVARY HOSPITAL INC: $57,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 · HealthThe Oxalosis & Hyperoxaluria Foundation: $2,500 · HealthUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $17,500 · PhilanthropyTHE ROBBIE LEVINE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropySHELTER OUTREACH SERVICES: $20,000 · Animals
Other$402,500Education$175,000Food & Nutrition$127,500Human Services$101,000Health$70,000Philanthropy$22,500Animals$20,000

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 budgetFordham University: $100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS FOOD PANTRIES AND SHELTERS INC: $97,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCHAMINADE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $60,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCALVARY HOSPITAL INC: $57,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLONG ISLAND TOY LENDING CENTER: $45,000 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetBelmont Child Care Association Inc: $28,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSHELTER OUTREACH SERVICES: $20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetVALENTINA KOZLOVA DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTSHARE HUMAN SERVICES OF NEW YORK: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S PRISON ASSOCIATION AND HOME: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZahal Shalom Corp: $5,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROBBIE LEVINE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetST VINCENT'S SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Oxalosis & Hyperoxaluria Foundation: $2,500 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds Fordham University ↗
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS FOOD PANTRIES AND SHELTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAMINADE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CALVARY HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds LONG ISLAND TOY LENDING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Belmont Child Care Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER OUTREACH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds VALENTINA KOZLOVA DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTSHARE HUMAN SERVICES OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S PRISON ASSOCIATION AND HOME ↗
  • Who funds Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc ↗
  • Who funds Zahal Shalom Corp ↗
  • Who funds SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION OF NORTH JERSEY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE ROBBIE LEVINE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT'S SERVICES INC ↗

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 Goldman Sachs Cha…Mother Cabrini Health…Combined Jewish Phila…The New York Communit…The Bessemer Giving F…American Express Foun…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · American Express Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Irving T Bush Foundationinc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Irving T Bush Foundationinc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report 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 Irving T Bush Foundationinc?

Find your warmest path to The Irving T Bush Foundationinc 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 44 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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