· Private foundation
The Mercy 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC | $25,000 |
| PUBLICOLOR | $20,000 |
| RISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST | $11,000 |
| CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| THE JEWISH MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $2,500 |
| WNET | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $2,000 |
| CARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS | $1,500 |
| CAMP OAKHURST | $1,000 |
| SAUSALITO CRUISING CLUB | $1,000 |
| OPENING ACT | $1,000 |
| CONNECTICUT COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL | $750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
80 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 65 since wound down; 4 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC4× · 2017–2020 · $335k · revenue +76%
- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · $213k · revenue +69%
- TPTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- MSMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -15%
- BABrewster Academyone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +14%
- JJJOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
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.
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.
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…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
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.
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
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 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…
How this is measured
89 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. 89 of the 129 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLICOLOR INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds HUMANITY IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds Brewster Academy ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds RISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds UNITED HOSPITAL FUND OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · William H Herrman Foundation Inc · Marrus Family Foundation Inc · Strong Foundation of New York · Credit Suisse Americas Foundation · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mercy Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mercy Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
- Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
- Jack the Bike Man Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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