How much does The Judelson Family Foundation give?

The Judelson Family Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $390,452 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Judelson Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (35%), Education (28%), Philanthropy (14%).

Who are The Judelson Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Arizona Foundation ($40k), Trustees of Deerfield Academy ($31k), Artists Space Inc ($29k).

Does The Judelson Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Judelson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Judelson Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Quinn Family Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Polk Bros Foundation Inc.

Where is The Judelson Family Foundation based?

The Judelson Family Foundation is based in NJ.

The Judelson Family Foundation

The Judelson Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Judelson Family 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.

$390k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$73k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$273kEducation$222kPhilanthropy$107kHealth$37kFood & Nutrition$27kAnimals$23kEnvironment$23kInternational$17kOther$0

02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k36 grants · $146k
$10k–50k12 grants · $172k
$50k–250k1 grant · $73k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST	$72,623
YALE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT	$25,000
LOS ANGELES MUSEUM OF ART	$25,000
DEERFIELD ACADEMY	$17,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY	$15,000
ARTISTS SPACE	$13,000
FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE	$12,500
DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS	$12,000
SWISS INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART	$12,000
CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS	$10,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART	$10,000
NOURISHING HOPE	$10,000
LINCOLN PARK ZOO	$10,000
SKILLS FOR CHICAGOLANDS FUTURE	$7,500
GOODMAN THEATRE	$7,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$535k · 46 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$535k

$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%

-12%

Still filing today

70%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalHealthOther

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

University of Arizona Foundation
8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +109%
TO
TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY
6× · 2018–2024 · $31k · revenue +77%
AS
ARTISTS SPACE INC
4× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +259%

Funded once

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THE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -35%
SI
SWISS INSTITUTE
one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -21%
FO
FRIENDS OF ARTISTS SPACE
one grant, 2018 · $2k

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.

Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture

Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture

Lookingglass Theatre Company

Lookingglass theatre company is a national leader in the creation and presentation of innovative, cutting-edge theatrical work. lookingglass interweaves movement, circus arts and narrative in original and captivating ways. guided by an…

Arts & Culture

New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc

The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…

Arts & Culture

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

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan; the most unlike its peers is The Joe Namath Charitable 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

54 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. 54 of the 82 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

53/54

Grantees still filing

36/54

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$232,461Other$248,984Philanthropy$119,589Education$93,350Community Improvement$49,500Animals$22,500Environment$22,500

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.

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.

Quinn Family FoundationIL20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Quinn Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Marieluise Hessel Foundation · The Dorothea Lleonhardt Foundation Inc · Via Art Fund Inc · Arison Arts Foundation · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation

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 Judelson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Judelson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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