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The Joe & Sandy Samberg Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Joe & Sandy Samberg Foundation Inc

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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
126
Grants FY2025still arriving
20
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$2.8MEducation$2.2MPhilanthropy$1.1MInternational$692kRecreation & Sports$685kCommunity Improvement$456kReligion$301kYouth Development$236kOther$0
02FY2025 · 126 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k85 grants · $149k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $570k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $838k
  • $250k+2 grants · $650k
$2,500
Median grant
20
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE 1440 FOUNDATION$400,000
FIRST DESCENTS$250,000
HEROIC HEARTS PROJECT$150,000
FIRESIDE PROJECT$125,000
RYE ARTS CENTER$101,120
ARBOR BROTHERS INC$100,000
PSFC$100,000
SOUL RYEDERS$60,260
FJCNATAN FUND$51,000
TAMID GROUP$50,150
SHEFA - JEWISH PSYCHEDELIC SUPPORT$50,000
HEALING BREAKTHROUGH$50,000
PANORAMA GLOBAL$35,000
CHAKANARECONSIDER$32,500
COMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE OF RYE$32,000
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 (FY21–25, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SILVER BAY YMCA: $1k → 10%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $1k → 6%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $1k → 6%BLUE RIDGE HOSPICE: $250 → 16%MAGICIANS WITHOUT BORDERS: $4k → 9%EMMAS TORCH: $30k → 20%CMAK SANDY HOOK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $100 → 9%MAGICIANS WITHOUT BORDERS: $3k → 9%EMMAS TORCH: $25k → 20%MAGICIANS WITHOUT BORDERS: $1k → 9%EMMAS TORCH: $5k → 20%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $5k → 9%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $5k → 9%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $5k → 9%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $5k → 9%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $4k → 9%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $10k → 17%BELOVED BUILDERS: $4k → 9%THREAD CONNECTS: $500 → 17%DOROT: $2k → 17%DOROT: $2k → 17%DOROT: $2k → 17%DOROT: $1k → 17%DOROT: $1k → 17%ROOM TO GROW: $5k → 17%ROOM TO GROW: $5k → 17%ROOM TO GROW: $5k → 17%AFYA FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%SPRYE: $2k → 9%SPRYE: $2k → 9%SPRYE: $2k → 9%5 STEPS TO FIVE: $1k → 9%SPRYE: $1k → 9%WAINWRIGHT HOUSE: $500 → 9%SPRYE: $500 → 9%5 STEPS TO FIVE: $500 → 9%WAINWRIGHT HOUSE: $500 → 9%5 STEPS TO FIVE: $500 → 9%WAINWRIGHT HOUSE: $250 → 9%WAINWRIGHT HOUSE: $100 → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.8M · 108 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

108 repeat relationships: 73 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108
106

Total granted

$8.8M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+8%

Still filing today

63%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $617k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • FD
    FIRST DESCENTS
    4× · 2021–2025 · $581k · revenue +92%
  • HH
    HEROIC HEARTS PROJECT INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $564k · revenue +77%
  • ARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING
    4× · 2021–2025 · $450k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • FF
    Feilding Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $315k · revenue ×450
  • BI
    BRAINFUTURES INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue -60%
  • RF
    REASON FOR HOPE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $170k · revenue +8%
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 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
2
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
3
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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4
Healthix Inc

The mission of healthix inc. is to create an achievable, sustainable and replicable model for integrating clinical information across multiple health care organizations which supports new york state and federal strategic health information…

Public Benefit
5
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
6
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

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

Health
7
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc

Rockefeller philanthropy advisors aims to accelerate philanthropy in pursuit of a just world

Philanthropy
8
Stony Brook Surgical 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
9
New York Blood Center Inc

As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.

Health
10
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…

Health
11
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
12
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is My Sisters Place Inc; the most unlike its peers is Feilding 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

177 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. 177 of the 269 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
175/177
Grantees still filing
98/177
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RECONSIDER: $1,389,000 · OtherRECONSIDERUC BERKLEY: $451,351 · OtherUC BERKLEYMAPS: $310,286 · OtherMAPSNYU LANGONE HEALTH: $300,000 · OtherNYU LANGONE HEALTHUNIVERSITY OF PENN: $287,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PENNBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION: $205,000 · OtherFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $193,000 · Other+124 more: $2,087,190 · Other+124 moreSOUL RYEDERS INC: $291,621 · HealthSOUL RYEDERS INCBRAINFUTURES INCORPORATED: $250,000 · HealthBRAINFUTURES INCORPOR…Fireside Project Inc: $250,000 · HealthFireside Project IncPSFC: $225,000 · HealthPSFCUSONA INSTITUTE INC: $221,900 · HealthUSONA INSTITUTE INCHEALING BREAKTHROUGH: $200,000 · HealthHEALING BREAKTHROUGHREASON FOR HOPE INC: $170,000 · HealthREASON FOR HOPE INCLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · HealthLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION …LUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER: $150,000 · HealthLUNDQUIST INSTITUTE F…+20 more: $223,265 · Health+20 moreCHAKANA MEDIA INC: $420,500 · EducationCHAKANA MEDI…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $261,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD …Cornell University: $226,500 · EducationCornell Univ…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $148,465 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · Education+6 more: $95,500 · Education+6 moreARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING: $450,000 · PhilanthropyARBOR BRO…THE 1440 FOUNDATION: $400,000 · PhilanthropyTHE 1440 …OPEN DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyINDIGENOUS MEDICINE CONSERVATION FUND: $50,000 · Philanthropy+8 more: $24,100 · PhilanthropyHEROIC HEARTS PROJECT INC: $563,550 · InternationalPANORAMA GLOBAL: $35,000 · InternationalAthanatos World Inc: $25,000 · International+8 more: $95,100 · InternationalFIRST DESCENTS: $581,146 · Recreation & SportsGRASSROOT SOCCER INC: $65,000 · Recreation & Sports+3 more: $16,046 · Recreation & SportsFeilding Foundation: $315,000 · Science & Tech
Other$5,222,827Health$2,131,786Education$1,201,965Philanthropy$974,100International$718,650Recreation & Sports$662,192Science & Tech$315,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetFIRST DESCENTS: $581,146 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetHEROIC HEARTS PROJECT INC: $563,550 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING: $450,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetCHAKANA MEDIA INC: $420,500 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetSOUL RYEDERS INC: $291,621 over 5y, 12% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $261,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBRAINFUTURES INCORPORATED: $250,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetFireside Project Inc: $250,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCornell University: $226,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPSFC: $225,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetUSONA INSTITUTE INC: $221,900 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHEALING BREAKTHROUGH: $200,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $193,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetREASON FOR HOPE INC: $170,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $148,465 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC: $125,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTHE RYE ARTS CENTER INC: $107,675 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetSHEFA JEWISH PSYCHEDELIC SUPPORT: $100,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF RYE NEW YORK: $81,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSTEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES INC: $75,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetGRASSROOT SOCCER INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEMMA'S TORCH LTD: $60,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOPEN DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetINDIGENOUS MEDICINE CONSERVATION FUND: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWilliam G Nash Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN DOOR FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetApollo Pact Inc: $27,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetCARITAS OF PORT CHESTER INC: $25,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NOWAK SOCIETY: $25,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBMORE INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetALMA INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetAthanatos World Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $23,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRYE YOUTH COUNCIL INC: $22,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetPROTEA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $17,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIMINA FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL: $12,500 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 FIRST DESCENTS ↗
  • Who funds HEROIC HEARTS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds ARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING ↗
  • Who funds CHAKANA MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE 1440 FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Feilding Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SOUL RYEDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BRAINFUTURES INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Fireside Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds PSFC ↗
  • Who funds USONA INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALING BREAKTHROUGH ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds REASON FOR HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds LUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds NEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RYE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SHEFA JEWISH PSYCHEDELIC SUPPORT ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF RYE NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds STEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES INC ↗
  • Who funds GRASSROOT SOCCER INC ↗
  • Who funds EMMA'S TORCH LTD ↗

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.

Daffy Charitable FundSteven & Alexandra Co…The Glickenhaus Found…Margaret Cameron and …Riverstyx FoundationThe Dunn Family Found…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The New York Communit…Nicholas & Christina …John and Jennifer Eck…West Family FoundationJewish Communal Fund
Daffy Charitable FundCA29.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Daffy Charitable Fund · Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation Inc · The Glickenhaus Foundation · Margaret Cameron and James M Glickenhaus Foundation · Riverstyx Foundation · The Dunn Family Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Nicholas & Christina Raho Foundationinc · John and Jennifer Eckerson Family Foundation C/O Citrin Cooperman · West Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund

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 Joe & Sandy Samberg Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joe & Sandy Samberg Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Healthport Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Adventist Healthcare Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Joe & Sandy Samberg Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Joe & Sandy Samberg Foundation Inc 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 269 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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