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The Loreen Arbus Foundation

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.

$551k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.2MHuman Services$644kHealth$427kEducation$285kCivil Rights$251kScience & Tech$162kReligion$105kInternational$101kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $483k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$534k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REELABILITIES INTERNATIONAL$150,000
WOMEN'S ENEWS$82,675
WOMEN'S MEDIA CENTER$50,000
PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA$50,000
CEREBRAL PALSY FOUNDATION$50,000
TELEVISION ACADEMY FOUNDATION$50,000
BARNARD COLLEGE$50,000
DISABILITY RIGHTS ADVOCATES$25,000
NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION$25,000
BROOKINGS INSTITUTION$10,000
CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC$5,500
INEVITABLE FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $694k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SPM DISABILITY JUSTICE FUND: $5k → 10%2GETHER-INTERNATIONAL: $50k → 14%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $25k → 17%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $25k → 17%NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%WOMEN'S ENEWS: $83k → 17%WOMEN'S ENEWS: $80k → 17%WOMEN'S ENEWS: $75k → 17%WOMEN'S ENEWS: $72k → 17%MARLENE MEYERSON JCC MANHATTAN: $60k → 17%WOMEN'S ENEWS: $51k → 17%WOMEN'S ENEWS: $41k → 17%MARLENE MEYERSON JCC MANHATTAN: $30k → 17%WOMEN'S ENEWS: $15k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER MANHATTAN: $3k → 17%WOMEN'S ENEWS: $70k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

NY
MA
CA
KY
VA
AR
DC
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 35 repeat orgs$575k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
43

Total granted

$3.8M
$570k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+8%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthInternationalPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • CB
    Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc
    5× · 2017–2024 · $323k · revenue +79%
  • BARNARD COLLEGE
    5× · 2018–2025 · $230k · revenue +16%
  • CP
    CEREBRAL PALSY FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $187k · revenue +240%

Funded once

  • WE
    WOMENS ENTREPRENEURSHIP DAY ORGANIZATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -25%
  • WI
    WORLD INSTITUTE ON DISABILITY
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +8%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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.

1
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Women Action & the Media Corp

Gender equity in media access, representation, employment and ownership and a world in which a just media is considered essential to a just society. women, action & the media (wam) connects and supports media makers, activists, academics…

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4
Women's Forum Inc

Forum membership provides extraordinary women with the opportunity to network with a diverse array of peers, to help one another succeed and to share unique experiences. we believe the potential for cross-collaboration among our diverse…

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5
Berggruen Institute
Education
6
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
7
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
8
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
9
White Columns Inc

White columns identifies significant emerging and under-represented visual artists and encourages their creative and professional development through the presentation of group and solo exhibitions, an online curated artists registry, and…

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
12
Women in Product

Our mission is to equip women and non-binary folks to thrive in product management careers at all levels. we want all people to have equitable opportunities to build rewarding careers and shape the products of the future.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Forum of New York Inc; the most unlike its peers is Give Beauty Wings Inc. 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

62 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. 62 of the 79 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/62
Grantees still filing
35/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc: $323,250 · Arts & CultureCrystal Bridges-Museum of American…THE WOMENS MEDIA CENTER INC: $286,203 · Arts & CultureTHE WOMENS MEDIA CENTER INCREELABILITIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $210,000 · Arts & CultureREELABILITIES INTERNATIONAL INCTHE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA: $162,914 · Arts & CultureTHE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIATHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $75,460 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEMMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $47,145 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $47,103 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $46,670 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $141,295 · Arts & Culture+11 moreTELEVISION ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $325,000 · OtherTELEVISION ACADEMY FOUNDATIONNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC: $300,550 · OtherNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INCLINCOLN CENTER CORPORATE FUND: $94,700 · OtherLINCOLN CENTER CORPORATE FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $91,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEquality Now Inc: $55,000 · OtherTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $80,000 · OtherWORLD SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Other+31 more: $511,295 · Other+31 moreWOMEN'S E-NEWS: $486,625 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S E-NEWSTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $92,500 · Human ServicesTHE JEWISH COMMUNI…2Gether-International Inc: $50,000 · Human Services2Gether-Internatio…WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN MOVING MILLI…SHARE INC: $30,500 · Human Services+3 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesBARNARD COLLEGE: $230,000 · EducationTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $10,000 · EducationCEREBRAL PALSY FOUNDATION INC: $186,500 · HealthPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $31,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR GENDER-SPECIFIC MEDICINE INC: $10,000 · HealthNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Health+2 more: $10,000 · HealthDisability Rights Advocates: $153,340 · Civil RightsINEVITABLE FOUNDATION: $102,500 · PhilanthropyGABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC: $6,000 · PhilanthropyWOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $4,400 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,300 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$1,340,040Other$1,528,045Human Services$729,625Education$255,000Health$247,500Civil Rights$153,340Philanthropy$115,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOMEN'S E-NEWS: $486,625 over 8y, 87% of budgetCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc: $323,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC: $300,550 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetTHE WOMENS MEDIA CENTER INC: $286,203 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $230,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREELABILITIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $210,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCEREBRAL PALSY FOUNDATION INC: $186,500 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetTHE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA: $162,914 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDisability Rights Advocates: $153,340 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetINEVITABLE FOUNDATION: $102,500 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $92,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $75,460 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEquality Now Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWORLD INSTITUTE ON DISABILITY: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budget2Gether-International Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetWOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $47,145 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $47,103 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOWN HALL LOS ANGELES: $40,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetLuisa Diaz Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $31,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE INC: $30,500 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $30,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmericans for the Arts Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC: $24,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUN Women For Peace Association Inc: $23,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $18,725 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSALOME CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetALLIANCE FOR WOMEN IN MEDIA INC: $15,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $14,770 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR GENDER-SPECIFIC MEDICINE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT: $5,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDisability Power Bloc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGIVE BEAUTY WINGS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Center for Living Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOLICY WORKS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budget
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.

The Ford FoundationJewish Communal FundCalifornia Community …The Goldman Sachs Cha…The San Francisco Fou…Harnisch Family Found…P-Squared Philanthrop…Samuel J & Ethel Lefr…Embrey Family Foundat…Spectemur Agendo IncJohn S and James L Kn…Tides Foundation
The Ford FoundationNY25× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · California Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Harnisch Family Foundation · P-Squared Philanthropies Inc · Samuel J & Ethel Lefrak Charitable Trust · Embrey Family Foundation · Spectemur Agendo Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Tides 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 Loreen Arbus Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Loreen Arbus Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Loreen Arbus Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Loreen Arbus 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 79 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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