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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.

$119k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$248kArts & Culture$230kCommunity Improvement$220kHuman Services$45kInternational$42kRecreation & Sports$28kCivil Rights$21kPublic Benefit$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $84k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$517k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HAPPI INC: $5k → 7%GALLOP NYC: $12k → 20%HARC: $500 → 11%TRUE NORTH TREKS: $1k → 14%GALLOP NYC: $9k → 20%GALLOP NYC: $5k → 20%GALLOP NYC: $5k → 20%GALLOP NYC: $5k → 20%GALLOP NYC: $5k → 20%GALLOP NYC: $3k → 20%GALLOP NYC: $1k → 20%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

IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MD
DC
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$831k · 17 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
23

Total granted

$831k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+14%

Still filing today

76%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • KD
    KOUNKUEY DESIGN INITIATIVE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $218k · revenue +85%
  • EG
    ECHOING GREEN INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +107%
  • GA
    GIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +34%
  • LA
    LOUIS ARMSTRONG FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • FC
    FOUNDATION CARING FOR COLOMBIA LTD
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -72%
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 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
2
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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3
San Francisco Opera Association

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Sarah Lawrence College

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…

Education
5
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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6
New York City Center Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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9
En Garde Arts Inc

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.…

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Los Angeles Opera Company

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…

Arts & Culture
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 Robin Hood Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
25/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LA MAMA THEATRE: $202,000 · OtherLA MAMA THEATREGLOBAL CITIZEN: $35,000 · OtherGLOBAL CITIZENLEARN FRESH EDUCATION: $25,000 · OtherLEARN FRESH EDUCATIONPartnerships For Change: $20,500 · OtherPartnerships For ChangeTHE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · OtherTHE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC+24 more: $57,280 · Other+24 moreKOUNKUEY DESIGN INITIATIVE INC: $217,500 · InternationalKOUNKUEY DESIGN INITIATIVE I…+4 more: $10,600 · InternationalECHOING GREEN INC: $190,000 · EducationECHOING GREEN INCTWO COYOTES WILDERNESS SCHOOL INC: $14,000 · EducationTWO COYOTES WILDERNESS SCHOO…FRIENDS OF ZAWADI YETU: $10,000 · Education+3 more: $13,950 · Education+3 moreGIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesHAPPI INC: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesBRONX LACROSSE INC CO OTA: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsOCEANA INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $1,350 · EnvironmentROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $6,650 · PhilanthropyDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $3,000 · Philanthropy
Other$359,780International$228,100Education$227,950Human Services$51,500Recreation & Sports$25,000Environment$11,350Philanthropy$9,650

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 budgetKOUNKUEY DESIGN INITIATIVE INC: $217,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC: $190,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetGIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $45,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetBRONX LACROSSE INC CO OTA: $25,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetPartnerships For Change: $20,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTWO COYOTES WILDERNESS SCHOOL INC: $14,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetOCEANA INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ZAWADI YETU: $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetFlight School Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $6,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetON SITE OPERA INC: $5,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION CARING FOR COLOMBIA LTD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHAPPI INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetLONGHOUSE RESERVE: $3,950 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC: $3,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNECHUNG FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $1,950 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCOA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $1,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA LEG TO STAND ON INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE KID MEALS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrue North Treks NFP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRaam Raj Foundation: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARC INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW GROUP INC: $440 over 1y, 0.0% 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…National Philanthropi…Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Online Givin…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY17.4× affinity7 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 · 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 92%
  • Harc Inc: 92% of income from government
  • Two Coyotes Wilderness School Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Malkenson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Malkenson 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 49 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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