How much does The Mitchell & Elaine Yanow Charitable Trust give?

The Mitchell & Elaine Yanow Charitable Trust reported 21 grants totaling $87,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 19 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does The Mitchell & Elaine Yanow Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Health (18%), Animals (12%).

Who are The Mitchell & Elaine Yanow Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Pets in Need of Greater Cincinnati Inc ($63k), The Calhoun School Inc ($52k), Edith Wharton Restoration Inc ($30k).

Does The Mitchell & Elaine Yanow Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Mitchell & Elaine Yanow Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Mitchell & Elaine Yanow Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ibm International Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Ge Aerospace Foundation.

Where is The Mitchell & Elaine Yanow Charitable Trust based?

The Mitchell & Elaine Yanow Charitable Trust is based in NY.

The Mitchell & Elaine Yanow Charitable Trust

The Mitchell & Elaine Yanow Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

The Mitchell & Elaine Yanow Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$87k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$11k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$205kHealth$106kAnimals$69kArts & Culture$67kYouth Development$29kInternational$24kRecreation & Sports$20kReligion$18kOther$0

02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k18 grants · $56k
$10k–50k3 grants · $31k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
The Calhoun School Inc	$10,750
Washington University in St Louis Medical Advancement	$10,000
Columbia University	$10,000
John Burroughs School	$9,000
Harvard College Fund	$5,000
League of Women Voters of Metro St Louis	$5,000
Pleasant Valley Free Library	$5,000
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee	$5,000
Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai	$5,000
Brigham and Women's Hospital	$5,000
The Harvard Lampoon Trust	$3,000
The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights	$3,000
Beatrix Farrand Garden Association	$2,500
University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Foundation	$1,500
Yale University	$1,500

02The need

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 (FY19–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Mitchell & Elaine Yanow Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Mitchell & Elaine Yanow Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 4.5% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$453k · 29 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$453k

$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%

+11%

Still filing today

62%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsInternationalOther

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

PI
Pets in Need of Greater Cincinnati Inc
6× · 2019–2024 · $63k · revenue +14%
EW
EDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC
2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue +7%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
3× · 2019–2021 · $26k · revenue +44%

Funded once

YC
Youth Communications
one grant, 2023 · $10k
GS
Girls Scouts of Greater New York
one grant, 2019 · $10k
PT
PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY INC
one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue -49%

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.

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

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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University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 56 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/33

Grantees still filing

21/33

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$235,500Education$185,825Animals$68,575Philanthropy$28,500Human Services$27,500Health$21,575International$17,750

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.

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.

Ibm International FoundationNY12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Mitchell & Elaine Yanow Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mitchell & Elaine Yanow Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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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 · 0–90%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home