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The Niederhoffer Foundation

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.

$222k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$44,618
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$5.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations The Niederhoffer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’21’22’23
Arts & CultureInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving22$222k73%
FY20236$87k67%
FY20223$28k33%
FY20211$20k0%
FY20191$25k0%
FY20181$2.3M0%
FY20175$2.3Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$4.8MEducation$55kCivil Rights$50kPhilanthropy$20kRecreation & Sports$13kInternational$13kHealth$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($108k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Niederhoffer Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York City Opera: $4,575,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetThe Harmony Program Inc: $141,934 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetCombat Hate Foundation: $44,618 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTransport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company: $28,250 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetManhattan Class Company Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israeli Navy Seals Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBike Manchester Vt Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMoving Picture Institute: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $7,450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetManchester Music Festival Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGreen Mountain Sno Dogs: $2,500 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetBattery Dance Corporatin Dba Battery D: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerica-Israel Cultural Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Anim: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetProject Sunshine Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeatro Nuovo Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · 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.

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How do I get to The Niederhoffer Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Niederhoffer 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.

About The Niederhoffer Foundation

How much does The Niederhoffer Foundation give?
The Niederhoffer Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $221,958 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Niederhoffer Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (97%), Education (1%), Civil Rights (1%).
Who are The Niederhoffer Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: New York City Opera ($4.6M), The Harmony Program Inc ($142k), Combat Hate Foundation ($45k).
Does The Niederhoffer Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Niederhoffer Foundation 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 Niederhoffer Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Niederhoffer Foundation based?
The Niederhoffer Foundation is based in NY.

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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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