· Private foundation
The Jaffe Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k52 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $443k
- $50k–250k25 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLIMATE CHANGE FOR ALL EDUCATORS INC | $1,370,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $325,000 |
| FARE | $200,000 |
| WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE | $164,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY | $152,500 |
| WGBH | $150,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE | $125,000 |
| PAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $105,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $101,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OUTSET | $100,160 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ASHOKA | $100,000 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDACINE MT SINAI | $100,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $246k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
131 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2024, 59 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $434k 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
- CCCLIMATE CHANGE FOR ALL EDUCATORS4× · 2021–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +656% · 98% of their budget
- AMAmerican Museum of Natural History6× · 2019–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +13%
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $454k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- LCLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2020 · $300k
- AFASCENA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $225k · revenue -81%
- LCLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +55%
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.
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…
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
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…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ascena Foundation. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% 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.
169 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. 169 of the 318 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CLIMATE CHANGE FOR ALL EDUCATORS ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASHOKA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds PAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
- Who funds ASCENA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Westchester Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BANG ON A CAN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OUTSET INC ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds ALL OUR KIN INC ↗
- Who funds STEVEN MYRON HOLL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIONDOCS 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: The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Ag Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Wenden Foundation · Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts · Murray & Susan Haber Charitable Foundation · The Kestrel Foundation · Select Equity Group Foundation · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Arnhold Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation
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 Jaffe 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Blue Hill Observatory Science Center Inc — 59% of income from government
- American School at Hartford for the Deaf — 32% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Steep Rock Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Atlantic Center for the Arts Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Washington Friends of Music Inc — 3% of income from government
- Project Music Heals Us Inc — 2% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bantam Cinema & Arts Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- All Our Kin Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pilobolus Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Mvyradio Inc — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% 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.
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