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The Joel 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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$619k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.8MInternational$750kEducation$382kFood & Nutrition$262kHealth$260kPublic Safety & Disaster$87kEnvironment$75kPhilanthropy$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $283k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $237k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$619,450
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music$275,000
LONG ISLAND MUSIC HALL OF FAME$250,000
The Fund for Public Schools$250,000
THE COVENANT SCHOOL$81,911
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$80,000
Exploring the Arts$75,000
THE Third Street Music School$25,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT$25,000
Sweet Relief Musicians Fund$25,000
KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER$25,000
The Perlman Music Program$25,000
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION$25,000
Lenox Hill Hospital$25,000
ENDOMETRIOSIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Long Island Cares Inc: $12k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.8M · 20 repeat orgs$916k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
16

Total granted

$4.8M
$624k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+6%

Still filing today

85%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $292k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • GE
    GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $750k · revenue +674%
  • TB
    THE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $330k · revenue +114%
  • TF
    THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $280k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • CC
    COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -11%
  • SW
    SESAME WORKSHOP
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +6%
  • ND
    NYS Division Homeland Security Emergency Services
    one grant, 2020 · $87k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Diller-Quaile School of Music Inc

For more than a century, diller-quaile has offered an environment where music can flourish in all its aspects, enriching the lives of students of all ages and cultural backgrounds. the belief that music is a fundamental part of human life…

Arts & Culture
2
San Francisco Jazz Organization

The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…

Arts & Culture
3
The Long Island Museum of American Art History & Carriages

The long island museum is dedicated to inspiring people of all ages with an understanding and enjoyment of american art, history and carriages as expressed through the heritage of long island and its diverse communities.

Arts & Culture
4
Bloomingdale School of Music

To provide access to high-quality music education for anyone who seeks it, regardless of economic status, ability level, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation.

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Lyrica Baroque

The mission of lyrica baroque is to support a diverse community of students, teachers, artists, institutions and audiences of all ages through education, collaboration and performance. lyrica baroque seeks to promote the extraordinary…

Arts & Culture
7
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
8
New World Symphony Inc

Prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles.

Education
9
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Society of the Third Street Music School Settlement

The mission of third street music school settlement is to provide access to music and dance education to new yorkers of all ages.

Arts & Culture
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Carnegie Hall Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Smalls Live Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%11%5–10yr21%11%10–20yr21%31%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr11%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr21%20%10–20yr21%53%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr11%17%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
11%
5,629/52,589

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.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
24/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EXPLORING THE ARTS INC — $1,372,000 · Arts & CultureEXPLORING THE ARTS INCTHE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $330,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSICLONG ISLAND MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT HALL — $280,000 · Arts & CultureLONG ISLAND MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT HALLTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC — $182,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INCSESAME WORKSHOP — $100,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $270,000 · Arts & Culture+10 moreIndividual grant recipient — $1,086,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $280,000 · OtherTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCNYS Division Homeland Security Emergency Services — $87,114 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY — $80,000 · Other+16 more — $365,000 · Other+16 moreGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC — $750,000 · Public Safety & DisasterGLOBAL EMPOWER…COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesLong Island Cares Inc — $12,290 · Human ServicesRoad Recovery Foundation Inc — $70,000 · HealthSWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND — $40,000 · HealthLenox Hill Hospital — $25,000 · HealthST FRANCIS HOSPITAL — $10,000 · HealthLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $5,000 · HealthTHE COVENANT SCHOOL — $81,911 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $10,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $10,000 · EducationTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$2,534,000Other$1,898,114Public Safety & Disaster$750,000Human Services$262,290Health$150,000Education$101,911Environment$75,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEXPLORING THE ARTS INC — $1,372,000 over 7y, 22% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC — $750,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $330,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $280,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLONG ISLAND MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT HALL — $280,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetCOMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC — $250,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC — $182,000 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetSESAME WORKSHOP — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRoad Recovery Foundation Inc — $70,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetEAST HAMPTON LIBRARY — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFELIX ORGANIZATION - ADOPTEES FOR CHILDREN INC — $30,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRA SOCIETY OF NEW YORK INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JAZZ LOFT INC — $25,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetENDOMETRIOSIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF OYSTER BAY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLenox Hill Hospital — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS CENTER AT DUCK CREEK INC — $20,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJazz Foundation of America Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLong Island Cares Inc — $12,290 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS HOSPITAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL NEWS NATIONWIDE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE CHRISTEEN OYSTER SLOOP PRESERVATION CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALT WHITMAN BIRTHPLACE ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRITES OF SPRING MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSING FOR HOPE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

The New York Communit…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundSilicon Valley Commun…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…
The New York Community TrustNY14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Joel 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Joel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Joel 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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