· Private foundation
The John and Barbara Vogelstein Fdn
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $229k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $615k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIAMI CITY BALLET | $407,272 |
| NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER | $350,000 |
| THIRD WAY INSTITUTE | $350,000 |
| HIRSHHORN MUSEUM | $300,000 |
| NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC | $100,000 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY | $100,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $75,000 |
| PREP FOR PREP | $75,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $60,000 |
| JEWISH MUSEUM | $55,000 |
| GILLEN BREWER SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $50,000 |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| OPERA AMERICA | $25,000 |
| SEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $525k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of The John and Barbara Vogelstein Fdn’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
50 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TWTHIRD WAY INSTITUTE7× · 2018–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +128%
- NYNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC4× · 2018–2021 · $2.2M · revenue +3%
- MCMIAMI CITY BALLET INC5× · 2020–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +11%
Funded once
- VCVASSAR COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +33%
- CUCitizens United for Research in Epilepsyone grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue -33%
- BCBLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $100k · 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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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.
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.
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."
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…
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
To honor the legacy of the great american playwright, arthur miller, and his new york city public school education, the arthur miller foundation (the "foundation") increases equitable access to quality theater education for public school…
How this is measured
82 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 82 of the 107 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THIRD WAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds GILLEN BREWER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AGMA RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds INTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds SEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds BLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLICOLOR INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK 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.
Open a dossier: The Bessemer Giving Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Warburg Pincus Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Wolfensohn Family Foundation · The Tang Fund · California Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The John and Barbara Vogelstein Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John and Barbara Vogelstein Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.
- New Jersey Ballet Company Inc: 19% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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