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The Mailman Foundation Inc

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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% 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$1.2MCivil Rights$815kEducation$812kEnvironment$415kFood & Nutrition$410kHealth$361kReligion$163kPublic Safety & Disaster$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $425k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $505k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW CIVIL LIBERTIES ALLIANCE$250,000
STONE BARNS CENTER$95,000
LINCOLN CENTER THEATER$60,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$50,000
HUDSON INSTITUTE - CENTER FOR AMERICAN CULTURE$50,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS$50,000
CITY HARVEST INC$50,000
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$50,000
MIAMI NEW DRAMA$50,000
AMERICAN ASSOCIATES OF THE NATIONAL THEATRE INC$50,000
EARTHJUSTICE$35,000
THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION$35,000
BISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC DBA MIAMI WATERKEEPER$30,000
LINCOLN CENTER THEATER$25,000
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%REMAKE: $8k → 10%REMAKE: $5k → 10%CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 15%CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 15%CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP: $8k → 15%CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP: $8k → 15%THE ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY: $10k → 14%THE ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY: $2k → 14%RX ART INC: $20k → 17%RX ART INC: $15k → 17%RX ART INC: $10k → 17%RX ART INC: $5k → 17%RX ART INC: $5k → 17%RX ART INC: $5k → 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

WA
MN
MI
NY
PA
CA
MO
MD
TN
DC
TX
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 51 repeat orgs$929k to everyone else

51 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
34

Total granted

$3.7M
$819k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+37%

Still filing today

78%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • NC
    New Civil Liberties Alliance
    5× · 2019–2024 · $525k · revenue +104%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $195k · revenue +31%
  • CITY HARVEST INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $190k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +83%
  • FD
    FLORIDA DISASTER FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • AC
    AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNIgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue +58%
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
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
2
Boston Architectural College

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

—
3
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
4
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
5
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
6
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
7
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.

—
8
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
9
New York University

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.

Education
10
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
Manhattanville University

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rx Art Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Eye Cancer Foundation 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

65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 92 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/65
Grantees still filing
49/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

New Civil Liberties Alliance: $525,000 · Arts & CultureNew Civil Liberties AllianceTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $185,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A …Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri: $145,000 · Arts & CultureStone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Ston…NATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC: $120,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INCLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $115,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATIONMIAMI NEW DRAMA: $115,000 · Arts & CultureMIAMI NEW DRAMAAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI: $60,000 · Arts & Culture+18 more: $399,750 · Arts & Culture+18 moreFLORIDA DISASTER FUND: $100,000 · OtherFLORIDA DISASTER FUNDAANT: $100,000 · OtherAANTLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $75,000 · OtherBLACKSMITH INSTITUTE INC DBA PURE EARTH: $70,000 · OtherTHE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $60,000 · OtherBABY2BABY: $55,000 · OtherEMERGING PUBLIC LEADERS INC: $75,000 · OtherRX ART INC: $60,000 · Other+40 more: $1,010,670 · Other+40 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $360,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF…NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC: $125,000 · EducationNATIONAL ASSOCI…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER …RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC: $67,500 · EducationRANSOM EVERGLAD…ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $29,500 · Education+2 more: $15,000 · EducationTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $135,000 · EnvironmentTHE SURFR…EARTHJUSTICE: $115,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUST…BISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC: $90,000 · EnvironmentBISCAYNE …THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE EVERG…ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $15,000 · EnvironmentCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $195,000 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital: $30,000 · HealthLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthCITY HARVEST INC: $190,000 · Food & NutritionTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $170,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$1,664,750Other$1,605,670Education$697,000Environment$405,000Health$251,000Food & Nutrition$190,000Civil Rights$170,000

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 budgetNew Civil Liberties Alliance: $525,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $360,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $195,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $190,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $185,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $170,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetStone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri: $145,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC: $125,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetNATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC: $120,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $115,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI NEW DRAMA: $115,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $115,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC: $90,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGING PUBLIC LEADERS INC: $75,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetRANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC: $67,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI: $60,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRX ART INC: $60,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetBABY2BABY: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetARCO COLLABORATIVE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetAPERTURE FOUNDATION INC: $47,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMIAMI CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetMAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $42,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTuxedo Park School: $35,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe American-Scandinavian Foundation: $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $29,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $25,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAJ MUSTE FOUNDATION FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Radio International Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMCSWEENEY'S LITERARY ARTS FUND: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% 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 Goldman Sachs Cha…The Joshua Mailman Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The New York Communit…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bessemer Giving F…Jewish Communal FundThe San Francisco Fou…Hillman Family Founda…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Ford Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY20.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Joshua Mailman Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The New York Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Ford 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 Mailman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mailman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Chapman Partnership Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
18report 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
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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How do I get to The Mailman Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Mailman Foundation Inc 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 92 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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