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The Migdol 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.

$32k
Granted FY2021
6
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$15k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Migdol Family Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Migdol Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $32k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0167% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172024.

Community Improvement$398kHuman Services$45kArts & Culture$33kHealth$11kEducation$10kCivil Rights$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kYouth Development$500Crime & Legal$500Other$252k
02FY2021 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k4 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF HARLEM INC$15,000
FRIENDS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL HARLEM INC$10,000
PFBL SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC$2,000
UPTOWN DANCE ACADEMY INC$2,000
M Apollonio$2,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARLEM INC$1,000
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 (FY17–20, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BRONX PARENT HOUSING NETWORK INC: $3k → 28%URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $10k → 17%URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $10k → 17%URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $10k → 17%URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $10k → 17%URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $3k → 17%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$326k · 8 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +298% since the first grant, against +56% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

$326k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+298%
+56%

Still filing today

50%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL HARLEM INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $175k · revenue +504% · 96% of their budget
  • UR
    URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $43k · revenue +298%
  • OO
    OPERA ON TAP
    3× · 2017–2019 · $20k · revenue +163%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF HARLEM HOSPITAL CENTER INC
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN JUDGES
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -1%
  • TU
    TOURO UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +75%

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
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

2
New York Foundation
3
King Hoops United

Empower the youth of new york city through basketball, providing them with academic enrichment, career development, and a strong sense of community to unlock their full potential

Youth Development
4
Promoting Access to Specialized Schools in New York City

increasing the diversity of students sitting for the specialized high school admissions test by providing students of color with access to test prep centers/programs and materials.

Education
5
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network

The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.

Education
6
Harlem Children's Zone Inc

We enhance the life for children and families in some of nyc's most devastated neighborhoods.

Human Services
7
Fifth Avenue Committee Inc

Fifth avenue committee's mission is to advance economic, social and racial justice in new york city through its comprehensive community development programs and projects.

8
Avenues for Justice Inc

Avenues for justice operates a progressive diversion program for nyc court-involved and at-risk youth, ages 13 to 24, through adapted hybrid online and onsite programming, and 24/7 mentorship with community-based court advocates, the…

Crime & Legal
9
New York Hall of Science

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Bigs & Littles Nyc Mentoring Inc

Bigs & littles nyc mentoring is a nonprofit community-based organization which transforms the lives of vulnerable nyc children and strengthens families through professionally guided one-to-one mentoring, life skills programming, and…

11
Nysarc Inc New York City Chapter

We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.

Human Services
12
Futures Ignite Inc

We amplify youth and community power by inspiring, guiding, and advocating for youth to determine their college, career, and leadership futures.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Reece School and the most unlike its peers is Uptown Dance Academy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr15%5%5–10yr21%25%10–20yr22%20%20–35yr13%40%35–55yr9%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr21%17%10–20yr22%10%20–35yr13%72%35–55yr9%1%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 5% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
1/22
the rest of the field
11%
4,573/40,213

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.

04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 23 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $397,585 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDFRIENDS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL HARLEM INC — $175,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL HARLEM INCCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF HARLEM INC — $59,550 · OtherCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF HARLEM INCPFBL SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $10,800 · Other+8 more — $10,000 · OtherURBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE — $42,500 · Human ServicesTHE BRONX PARENT HOUSING NETWORK INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesOPERA ON TAP — $20,000 · Arts & CultureUPTOWN DANCE ACADEMY INC — $12,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF HARLEM HOSPITAL CENTER INC — $7,500 · HealthNATIONAL BLACK LEADERSHIP COMMISSION ON AIDS INC — $2,000 · HealthGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC — $1,000 · HealthTOURO UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · EducationPALANTE HARLEM INC — $3,500 · EducationJUAN PABLO DUARTE FOUNDATION — $1,000 · EducationNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN JUDGES — $5,000 · Civil Rights
Community Improvement$397,585Other$255,350Human Services$45,000Arts & Culture$32,500Health$10,500Education$9,500Civil Rights$5,000

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $397,585 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL HARLEM INC — $175,000 over 5y, 96% of budgetURBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE — $42,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPERA ON TAP — $20,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetUPTOWN DANCE ACADEMY INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF HARLEM HOSPITAL CENTER INC — $7,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN JUDGES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTOURO UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALANTE HARLEM INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BRONX PARENT HOUSING NETWORK INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFDNY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK LEADERSHIP COMMISSION ON AIDS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE REECE SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUAN PABLO DUARTE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARLEM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL OUTREACH INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATROCK VENTURES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Robin Hood FoundationNY19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robin Hood Foundation · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Migdol 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 · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 Migdol Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Migdol 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 23 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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