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The Jocelyn Kress Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Jocelyn Kress Family Charitable 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.

$8k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$151kReligion$42kInternational$39kEducation$19kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kRecreation & Sports$3kAnimals$2kHealth$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$578k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLARION MUSIC SOCIETY$7,500
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.

US giving: 87% of grant dollars ($242k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 13% that went abroad ($37k) is mapped below.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ICA MUSEUM: $1k → 16%ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $10k → 11%SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER: $3k → 11%MARQUEE PLATFORM NYC: $4k → 17%WFUV: $5k → 28%HENRY MORRISON FLAGLER MUSEUM: $10k → 11%USCTPF: $5k → 7%SHEDD AQUARIUM: $2k → 14%ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $8k → 11%RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART: $2k → 17%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $1k → 14%ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $8k → 11%WHITNEY MUSEUM: $1k → 17%AMERICAN SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION: $14k → 17%OFFICE OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $11k → 14%AMERICAN SCANDINAVIAM FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%MCA CIRCLE: $2k → 14%AMERICAN SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION: $8k → 17%SMART MUSEUM OF ART: $3k → 14%AMERICAN SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION: $7k → 17%CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE CENTER: $2k → 14%THE MORGAN MUSEUM: $2k → 17%AMATEUR COMEDY CLUB NYC: $2k → 17%PARK AVENUE ARMORY CONSERVANCY: $1k → 17%CLARION MUSIC SOCIETY: $8k → 17%CLARION MUSIC SOCIETY: $5k → 17%JOFFREY CIRCLE ARABESQUE: $2k → 17%CLARION MUSIC SOCIETY: $20k → 17%CLARION MUSIC SOCIETY: $8k → 17%CLARION MUSIC SOCIETY: $8k → 17%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $15k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $3k → 17%CLASSICAL MUSIC SOCIETY: $3k → 17%AMERICAN BALLET THEATER: $6k → 17%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $2k → 17%PUBLIC THEATER: $3k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM: $9k → 17%THE JULLIARD SCHOOL: $1k → 17%AMERICAN BALLET THEATER: $1k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 17%THE JULLIARD SCHOOL: $1k → 17%AMERICAN BALLET THEATER: $1k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 17%PARK AVENUE ARMORY CONSERVANCY: $2k → 17%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $1k → 17%GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM: $2k → 17%COOPER HEWITT DESIGN: $2k → 17%ST IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH: $5k → 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.

Beyond the US: 13% of all-years giving ($37k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Puerto Rico$37k · 2 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$146k · 9 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
34

Total granted

$146k
$133k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+23%

Still filing today

78%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalAnimalsHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • TA
    The American-Scandinavian Foundation
    4× · 2017–2022 · $38k · revenue +66%
  • AA
    ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM
    3× · 2018–2022 · $26k · revenue +48%
  • MO
    Museum of Modern Art
    2× · 2020–2022 · $16k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • EC
    EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF PUERTO RICO
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • AD
    ARCHDIOCES DE SAN JUAN
    one grant, 2017 · $17k
  • OO
    OFFICE OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2019 · $11k
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
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
4
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
5
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
6
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
7
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
8
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
9
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Smithsonian Institution

*increase and diffusion of knowledge* is the mission set forth by james smithson. the smithsonian endeavors to shape the future by preserving our heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world.

Arts & Culture
12
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Art Institute of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is New York Shakespeare Festival. 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

20 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. 20 of the 43 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLARION MUSIC SOCIETY: $47,500 · Arts & CultureCLARION MUSIC SOCIETYALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $26,000 · Arts & CultureALLENTOWN ART MUSEUMMuseum of Modern Art: $15,824 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern ArtTHE HENRY MORRISON FLAGLER MUSEUM INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HENRY MORRISON FLAGLER MUSEUM INCBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $8,400 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC+6 more: $11,354 · Arts & Culture+6 moreEPISCOPAL CHURCH OF PUERTO RICO: $20,000 · OtherEPISCOPAL CHURCH OF PUERTO RICOARCHDIOCES DE SAN JUAN: $17,000 · OtherARCHDIOCES DE SAN JUANOFFICE OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $11,001 · OtherOFFICE OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLSMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM: $8,823 · OtherMETROPOLITAN MUSEUMCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $8,483 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESUSCTPF: $5,000 · OtherST IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,563 · Other+15 more: $26,266 · Other+15 moreThe American-Scandinavian Foundation: $38,250 · InternationalThe American-Sc…+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalFordham University: $5,001 · EducationJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $2,500 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $1,004 · EducationSNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER AND BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $2,500 · EnvironmentSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $1,995 · AnimalsRUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST: $1,500 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS: $1,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$119,078Other$105,136International$39,250Education$8,505Environment$2,500Animals$1,995Philanthropy$1,500Health$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLARION MUSIC SOCIETY: $47,500 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetThe American-Scandinavian Foundation: $38,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $26,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $15,824 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HENRY MORRISON FLAGLER MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $8,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $5,001 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER AND BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $2,390 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $1,995 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Architecture Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1,064 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $1,004 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM: $1,000 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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Jocelyn Kress Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jocelyn Kress Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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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    Find your warmest path to The Jocelyn Kress Family Charitable 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 43 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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