· Private foundation
The Kirschbaum 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PRESS | $3,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM | $300 |
| MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM | $250 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $210 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $180 |
| JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GREATER HARTFORD | $175 |
| JEWISH MUSEUM | $175 |
| REAL ART WAYS | $150 |
| SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION | $140 |
| CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER | $100 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 86% of your 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- JAJEWISH ART SALON INC2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +116%
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER4× · 2020–2024 · $1k · revenue +55%- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART4× · 2020–2024 · $930 · revenue +119%
Funded once
- IIOBYone grant, 2020 · $500
- UMU MASS DARTMOUTHone grant, 2020 · $500
TRINITY COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +17%
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 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."
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
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…
The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
Pem offers thought-provoking experiences of the arts, humanities, and sciences to activate understanding of our shared humanity and to empower imagination and learning through experimentation. we steward, build, and make our collections…
The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
The founding mission of the new-york historical society ("the new york historical "tnyh") is to collect, preserve, and interpret, for the broadest possible public, material relevant to the history of the united states in general and of new…
Nmoa mission statement is: we welcome everyone with inclusive experiences that spark curiosity and foster community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Jewish Museum and the most unlike its peers is University of Saint Joseph. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 28 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 JEWISH ART SALON INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REAL ART WAYS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GREATER HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY HUMOR INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
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: Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Kirschbaum 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.
- Real Art Ways Inc — 38% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- University of Saint Joseph — 2% of income from government
- Trinity College — 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.