· Private foundation
The Malkenson 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $84k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LA MAMA THEATRE | $36,000 |
| KOUNKUEY DESIGN INITIATIVE | $27,500 |
| FRIENDS OF ZAWADI YETA | $10,000 |
| ECHOING GREEN | $10,000 |
| THE FLIGHT SCHOOL INC | $7,500 |
| HAPPI INC | $5,000 |
| BRONX LACROSSE | $5,000 |
| A BETTER CHANCE | $5,000 |
| NECHUNG FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHANGE | $2,500 |
| LONGHOUSE RESERVE | $2,350 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE NYC | $2,000 |
| GALLOP NYC | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HARRITON PRESERVE | $1,000 |
| RAAM RAJ FOUNDATION | $600 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +60% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 9 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- KDKOUNKUEY DESIGN INITIATIVE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $218k · revenue +85%
- EGECHOING GREEN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +107%
- GAGIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- RHROBIN HOOD FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +34%
- LALOUIS ARMSTRONG FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
- FCFOUNDATION CARING FOR COLOMBIA LTDone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -72%
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.
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
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)
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
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,…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…
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)
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robin Hood Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Nechung 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
36 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. 36 of the 49 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 KOUNKUEY DESIGN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ECHOING GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds GIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BRONX LACROSSE INC CO OTA ↗
- Who funds Partnerships For Change ↗
- Who funds THE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TWO COYOTES WILDERNESS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ZAWADI YETU ↗
- Who funds Flight School Inc ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ON SITE OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION CARING FOR COLOMBIA LTD ↗
- Who funds A BETTER CHANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPI INC ↗
- Who funds LONGHOUSE RESERVE ↗
- Who funds BAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds NECHUNG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME ↗
- Who funds SCOA INC ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Malkenson 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Harc Inc — 92% of income from government
- Two Coyotes Wilderness School Inc — 4% 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.
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