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The Joseph H Kanter Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$101k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Health$341kPhilanthropy$79kArts & Culture$46kInternational$38kReligion$36kCommunity Improvement$20kRecreation & Sports$13kCrime & Legal$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MIAMI FOUNDATION$48,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$10,000
MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$7,500
TEMPLE B'NAI JESHURUN$7,500
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH OF ISRAEL$7,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$2,500
MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$2,500
MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$2,500
FANS FOR THE CURE$1,250
CHABAD ON WHEELS INC$1,200
JEWISH GW$500
CHABAD OF LAKEVIEW$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 62% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%USTA FOUNDATION: $13k → 9%SINGULA INSTITUTE: $2k → 17%JEWISH GW: $500 → 14%THE OPIOID RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $198k → 11%HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MIAMI BEACH: $25k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 14%OPERATION SONG: $10k → 14%PROMOTING AWARENESS VICTIM EMPOWERMENT (PAVE): $5k → 14%TEMPLE B'NAI JESHURUN: $8k → 16%NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS (NAMI): $500 → 7%LOS ANGELES JEWISH HEALTH: $20k → 14%FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH OF ISRAEL: $14k → 17%ACADEMY HEALTH: $10k → 14%SOBE ROOM: $10k → 15%PROMOTING AWARENESS VICTIM EMPOWERMENT (PAVE): $2k → 14%RESEARCH AMERICA: $1k → 7%UCLA FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $14k → 17%ACADEMY HEALTH: $10k → 14%HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MIAMI BEACH: $10k → 15%RESEARCH AMERICA: $1k → 7%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $30k → 14%FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH OF ISRAEL: $8k → 17%SOBE ROOM INC: $5k → 15%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $3k → 17%SOBE ROOM INC: $5k → 15%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $1k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $14k → 17%MIAMI BEACH K9 KNIGHTS INC: $1k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $8k → 17%MIAMI BEACH K9 KNIGHTS INC: $1k → 15%THE KABBALAH CENTRE: $800 → 17%JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $6k → 15%MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%CHABAD ON WHEELS: $2k → 15%CHABAD ON WHEELS INC: $1k → 15%THE MIAMI FOUNDATION: $48k → 15%CHABAD ON WHEELS INC: $800 → 15%THE MIAMI FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%CHABAD OF LAKEVIEW: $650 → 15%THE MIAMI FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%JOSEPH R NAROT ENDOWNMENT FUND: $3k → 15%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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
MI
NY
NJ
CT
CA
VA
TN
DC
FL

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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$238k · 15 repeat orgs$267k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
11

Total granted

$238k
$248k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+6%

Still filing today

67%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyInternationalArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther

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

  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +25%
  • TS
    THE SOBE ROOM INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +31%
  • A
    ACADEMYHEALTH
    2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • TO
    THE OPIOID RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $198k
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES JEWISH HEALTH
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -18%

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
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida Inc

To provide high quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching, research, charity care and financial responsibility.

Health
3
United States Naval Institute

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.

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4
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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5
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
6
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
7
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
8
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
9
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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10
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
11
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%5%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr15%19%20–35yr9%48%35–55yr12%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr16%1%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr15%38%20–35yr9%42%35–55yr12%15%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
17%
17,089/103,021

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

20 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. 20 of the 33 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE OPIOID RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $198,113 · OtherTHE OPIOID RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MIAMI BEACH — $35,000 · OtherHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MIAMI BEACHFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH OF ISRAEL — $21,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH OF ISRAELLOS ANGELES JEWISH HEALTH — $20,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES JEWISH HEALTH+14 more — $41,570 · Other+14 moreTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $78,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION…NORTHRIDGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHRIDGE HOSPITAL …+2 more — $3,750 · PhilanthropyCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $40,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MED…MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $20,500 · HealthMOUNT SINAI MEDI…ACADEMYHEALTH — $20,000 · HealthACADEMYHEALTH+2 more — $4,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $21,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $16,500 · InternationalTHE SOBE ROOM INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $12,500 · Recreation & SportsOPERATION SONG INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$316,183Philanthropy$106,750Health$84,500International$38,000Community Improvement$20,000Recreation & Sports$12,500Arts & Culture$11,000

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 budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $78,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHRIDGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $21,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $20,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOBE ROOM INC — $20,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetACADEMYHEALTH — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SONG INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOSEPH R NAROT FUND INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMIAMI BEACH K9 KNIGHTS INC — $2,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetRESEARCHAMERICA — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSINGULA INSTITUTE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFANS FOR THE CURE — $1,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Joseph H Kanter Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Jackson Health Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report 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

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How do I get to The Joseph H Kanter Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Joseph H Kanter Family 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 33 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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