· Private foundation
The John and Barbara Vogelstein Fdn
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $163k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $540k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THIRD WAY INSTITUTE | $750,000 |
| HIRSHHORN MUSEUM | $325,000 |
| MIAMI CITY BALLET | $300,000 |
| NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER | $250,000 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY | $100,000 |
| BLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| PREP FOR PREP | $75,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $60,000 |
| JEWISH MUSEUM | $55,000 |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NEW YORK CITY | $50,000 |
| GILLEN BREWER SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| NEW JERSEY BALLET COMPANY | $25,000 |
| SEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $525k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of The John and Barbara Vogelstein Fdn’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
47 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 4 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k 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
- TWTHIRD WAY INSTITUTE6× · 2018–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +128%
- NYNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC4× · 2018–2021 · $2.2M · revenue +3%
- TBTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES2× · 2018–2020 · $1.6M · revenue +41%
Funded once
- VCVASSAR COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +33%
- CUCitizens United for Research in Epilepsyone grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue -33%
- SISMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONone grant, 2021 · $75k
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.
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.
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…
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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 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.
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.
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 peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of New York. 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 48 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 10% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 101 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
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 THIRD WAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds GILLEN BREWER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- 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 BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds BLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds PUBLICOLOR INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 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 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
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 John and Barbara Vogelstein Fdn 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.
- 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
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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