· Private foundation
Alson Foundation Fka the Neil Barsky and Joan S Davidson 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $241k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM | $70,000 |
| THE WORLD AROUND | $45,000 |
| MARSHALL PROJECT | $35,717 |
| WOMEN DONOR NETWORK | $25,000 |
| FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT | $20,000 |
| OLA OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND | $15,000 |
| CUNY SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| J STREET EDUCATION FUND | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| NEW ROOTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES | $10,000 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| NY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $14k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TSTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM6× · 2020–2025 · $355k · revenue +305%
- TMTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC4× · 2019–2025 · $181k · revenue +59%
- AFAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM4× · 2019–2022 · $130k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- TSTHE STUDIO MUSEUMone grant, 2019 · $50k
- FAFREE AND FAIR LITIGATION GROUP INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +91%
- PLPacific Links Foundationone grant, 2019 · $22k · revenue -3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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,…
The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…
The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.
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).
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.
Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prison Book Program and the most unlike its peers is Artyard (Formerly Sprocket Arts). Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
62 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 112 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NEW ROOTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD AROUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRONX DEFENDERS ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds T'RUAH ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Alliance of Families for Justice Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN DONORS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FREE AND FAIR LITIGATION GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Pacific Links Foundation ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds IMPACT JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds OLA OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER NETWORK CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE 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.
Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Reba Judith Sandler Foundation Inc · Altman Foundation · Eugene M Lang Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Tides 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 Alson Foundation Fka the Neil Barsky and Joan S Davidson Foundation 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.
- Guthrie Center Corp — 1% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.
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