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The Mandell Family 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.

$25k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$71kRecreation & Sports$23kHuman Services$7kInternational$6kArts & Culture$3kCivil Rights$3kReligion$2kEducation$750Other$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$199k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$15,000
RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY$7,000
WATER BUFFALO CLUB$1,500
STAND WITH US$1,000
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH CENTER$300
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GRIEF HAVEN: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$213k · 11 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +76% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$213k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+41%

Still filing today

18%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
InternationalEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2019–2022 · $72k
  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $63k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2017–2018 · $30k

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GIFT OF LIFE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -55%
  • GO
    GIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +367%
  • GO
    GIFT OF LIFE LA
    one grant, 2017 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
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
Food Bank for New York City

Food bank for nyc has been the city's major hunger-relief organization driven by our mission to empower every new yorker to achieve food security for good. we harness the collective power of our network of food providers, partners, and…

Community Improvement
4
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
5
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc

Rockefeller philanthropy advisors aims to accelerate philanthropy in pursuit of a just world

Philanthropy
6
Junior League of the City of New York Inc

The junior league of the city of new york, inc., is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.

Community Improvement
7
Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science
8
New York Cardiac Center Inc

The mission of the new york cardiac center is to be a part of the ongoing effort to diagnose and prevent heart and other diseases. we help to develop treatment for those who need it and assist in training new scientists, educators, and…

9
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
10
Yad Ezra V'shulamit

Yad ezra v'shulamit's mission is to provide over 300,000 people in israel with food and basic supplies for those living in poverty by distributing 12,000 weekly food baskets. with a focus on children we try to ensure that hundreds of…

International
11
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
12
New York Blood Center Inc

As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Park Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Erika Whitmore Godwin Foundation. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $71,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $63,250 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERIndividual grant recipient — $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $14,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+13 more — $21,136 · Other+13 moreWATER BUFFALO CLUB INC DBA WE BENEFIT CHILDREN — $13,770 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $2,000 · Recreation & SportsRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $7,000 · EnvironmentTHE GIFT OF LIFE INC — $2,500 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $1,000 · InternationalGIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC — $2,000 · HealthThe Erika Whitmore Godwin Foundation — $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE BELLA ABZUG LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC — $500 · EducationJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $250 · Education
Other$200,386Recreation & Sports$15,770Environment$7,000International$3,500Health$2,000Human Services$1,000Education$750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWATER BUFFALO CLUB INC DBA WE BENEFIT CHILDREN — $13,770 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GIFT OF LIFE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Erika Whitmore Godwin Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $118 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 WATER BUFFALO CLUB INC DBA WE BENEFIT CHILDREN
  • Who funds RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC
  • Who funds THE GIFT OF LIFE INC
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
  • Who funds GIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
  • Who funds The Erika Whitmore Godwin Foundation
  • Who funds THE BELLA ABZUG LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC
  • Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Mandell Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Mandell Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Mandell Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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