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The Movado Group Foundation

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.

$985k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$359k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.1MEducation$645kHealth$614kPhilanthropy$488kHuman Services$227kYouth Development$225kInternational$152kCivil Rights$110kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $372k
  • $250k+1 grant · $359k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lincoln Center for the Performing A$359,000
Breast Cancer Research Foundation$172,077
The Ludacris Foundation$100,000
UJA Federation of New York$50,000
Fashion Scholarship Fund$50,000
Jewelers for Children$45,000
The UCLA Foundation$25,000
Crossroads School for Arts and Scie$25,000
The Shed$25,000
Turn 2 Foundation$25,000
LIFT Inc$25,000
Jewish Museum$25,000
National Retail Foundation NRF$25,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Studio Museum of Harlem$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Father's Day Mother's Day Council: $30k → 13%The Christian McCaffrey Foundation: $50k → 8%Fathers Day Mothers Day Council: $5k → 13%Delivering Good: $25k → 17%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

WA
IL
NY
IN
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DC
MS
GA
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 31 repeat orgs$850k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
25

Total granted

$5.0M
$640k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
0%

Still filing today

84%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyCivil RightsInternationalHealthOther
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

  • THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $565k · revenue +34%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $272k · revenue +46%
  • JF
    JEWELERS FOR CHILDREN
    6× · 2020–2025 · $206k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • MF
    MSU Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • T
    TurnTwoFoundation
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Manhattanville University

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

Education
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
5
New York University

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.

Education
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
10
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
11
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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12
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fashion Scholarship Fund; the most unlike its peers is Saks Fifth Avenue 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

47 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. 47 of the 64 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
27/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Lincoln Center for the Performing A: $2,068,000 · OtherLincoln Center for the Performing ATHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $100,000 · Other+30 more: $593,836 · Other+30 moreWNET: $450,902 · Arts & CultureWNETTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $170,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM …THE JEWISH MUSEUM: $133,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUMSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTIT…MARYLAND ART PLACE INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMARYLAND ART PLACE…MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC: $33,450 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+2 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $272,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH …JEWELERS FOR CHILDREN: $206,000 · PhilanthropyJEWELERS FOR C…TURN 2 FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · PhilanthropyTURN 2 FOUNDAT…Ludacris Foundation Inc: $100,000 · PhilanthropyLudacris Found…+3 more: $23,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $564,777 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE BREAST…NEW JERSEY SEEDS INC: $118,000 · EducationNEW JERSE…FASHION SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $105,000 · EducationFASHION S…Savannah College of Art and DesignInc: $100,000 · EducationSavannah …MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · EducationMONTCLAIR…The New School: $28,000 · EducationThe New S…CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $25,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Education+2 more: $11,000 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $100,000 · Civil RightsGLSEN INC: $80,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsChinese for Affirmative Action: $10,000 · Civil RightsCONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC: $52,225 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $50,000 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR: $50,000 · International
Other$2,761,836Arts & Culture$937,352Philanthropy$726,000Public Safety & Disaster$564,777Education$502,000Civil Rights$200,000International$152,225

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $564,777 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWNET: $450,902 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $272,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWELERS FOR CHILDREN: $206,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $170,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $133,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTURN 2 FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetNEW JERSEY SEEDS INC: $118,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFASHION SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $105,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGLSEN INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $52,225 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC: $52,225 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN MCCAFFREY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND ART PLACE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFATHER'S DAYMOTHER'S DAY COUNCIL INC: $35,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC: $33,450 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe New School: $28,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBABY2BABY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDELIVERING GOOD INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTABLE TO TABLE INC: $23,561 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACAULAY HONORS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAKS FIFTH AVENUE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PINK AGENDA INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York City Partnership Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTERRI ROEMER PARAMUS RUN INC: $1,000 over 2y, 2.1% 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.

Chubb Charitable Foun…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Chubb Charitable FoundationPA12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chubb Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Movado Group Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Movado Group 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 64 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home