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The Niederhoffer Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $175k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMBAT HATE FOUNDATION$44,618
HARMONY PROGRAM$35,000
MCC THEATER$25,000
THE MAPLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION$20,422
STRATTON FOUNDATION$20,000
MANCHESTER LIBRARY$10,000
DORSET THEATER FESTIVAL$10,000
SOUTHERN VT ARTS CENTER$10,000
MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE$7,500
JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL VALUES$5,118
METROPOLITAN OPERA$5,000
FRACTURED ATLAS$5,000
NEW YORK CITY OPERA$5,000
BATTERY DANCE CORPORATION$2,500
AMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION$2,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MUSIC FORWARD DBA THE KNIGHT: $3k → 14%THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $2k → 9%TRANSPORT GROUP: $20k → 17%JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL VALUES: $5k → 14%COMBAT HATE FOUNDATION: $45k → 10%STRATTON FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%DORSET THEATER FESTIVAL: $10k → 11%MANCHESTER LIBRARY: $10k → 7%TRANSPORT GROUP: $8k → 17%SOUTHERN VT ARTS CENTER: $10k → 11%AFINS: $10k → 17%MANCHESTER MUSIC FESTIVAL: $3k → 11%FRACTURED ATLAS: $5k → 17%MANCHESTER MUSIC FESTIVAL: $3k → 11%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $5k → 17%THE MAPLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%FRACTURED ATLAS: $2k → 17%THE MAPLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%TEATRO NUOVO INC: $1k → 17%BIKE MANCHESTER VT INC: $10k → 11%AMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%GREEN MOUNTAIN SNO DOGS INC: $3k → 11%NEW YORK CITY OPERA: $2.3M → 17%NEW YORK CITY OPERA: $2.3M → 17%HARMONY PROGRAM: $35k → 17%HARMONY PROGRAM: $27k → 17%HARMONY PROGRAM: $25k → 17%HARMONY PROGRAM: $25k → 17%MCC THEATER: $25k → 17%HARMONY PROGRAM: $20k → 17%NEW YORK CITY OPERA: $20k → 17%HARMONY PROGRAM: $10k → 17%NEW YORK CITY OPERA: $5k → 17%FRIENDS OF ANIM: $2k → 17%MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $8k → 17%MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $3k → 17%BATTERY DANCE CORPORATION: $3k → 17%PROJECT SUNSHINE: $1k → 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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 7 repeat orgs$168k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$4.8M
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
0%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalRecreation & SportsCivil RightsOther
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

  • TH
    THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $142k · revenue +94%
  • TG
    TRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY
    2× · 2017–2022 · $28k · revenue +33%
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INC
    2× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -49%
  • BM
    BIKE MANCHESTER VT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • PROJECT SUNSHINE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +63%
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
Foundation for Modern Opera
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2
Manhattan Theatre Club Inc

Mtc's work includes producing and developing new work on and off-broadway, nurturing artists throughout their careers, and positively impacting the lives of many through innovative education programs. we are committed to equity, diversity…

Arts & Culture
3
Us-China Cultural Institute Inc

To create bridges of understanding through the arts and education, believing that these are important means to bring the necessary human understanding between china and the west for peaceful world relations.

Education
4
Boston Modern Orchestra Project Inc

To build a structurally sound and musically vital ensemble which seeks to explore and present music of the 20th century. all schools, movements and styles from the turn of the century to the present day will be offered. it is the practical…

Arts & Culture
5
Cantata Profana Inc

Cantata Profana, Inc. (www.cantataprofana.com) is a vocal and instrumental chamber ensemble that presents concerts of classical and chamber music ranging from the Baroque to modern eras with a unique narrative style. Our purpose is to…

Arts & Culture
6
New Music Theatre Project Inc

New music theatre project is organized for the cultural purpose of developing new work that explores the traditional and innovative ways in which music and theatre play together. we focus on commissioning and co- producing new works of…

Arts & Culture
7
The New York Festival of Song Inc

NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty and originality, weaving music, poetry, history and humor into unforgettable evenings of compelling theater, entertaining, educating and creating community among…

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8
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
9
The New York New Music Ensemble Inc

To commission and perform new music

Arts & Culture
10
Midsummer Mozart Festival

The only music festival in North America dedicated to Mozart, our mission embraces both performance of highest artistic excellence and cultivation of new potential audience, including young people to assure the future appreciation of great…

Arts & Culture
11
American Modern Opera Company

Amoc's mission is to build and share a body of collaborative work.

Arts & Culture
12
Heartbeat Opera Ltd

Grounded in the belief that excellent opera making should build community and radiate beauty, Heartbeat Opera creates incisive adaptations, revelatory arrangements of classics, and interdisciplinary collaboration. We reckon with the…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Battery Dance Corporatin Dba Battery D; the most unlike its peers is Middle East Media and Research 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.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
8/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK CITY OPERA: $4,575,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY OPERA+9 more: $222,634 · Arts & CultureTHE MAPLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $45,422 · OtherSTRATTON FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherMANCHESTER LIBRARY: $10,000 · OtherSOUTHERN VT ARTS CENTER: $10,000 · OtherDORSET THEATER FESTIVAL: $10,000 · OtherJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL VALUES: $5,118 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERA: $5,000 · Other+2 more: $5,000 · OtherCOMBAT HATE FOUNDATION: $44,618 · Civil RightsAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $10,000 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $2,500 · InternationalBIKE MANCHESTER VT INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsGREEN MOUNTAIN SNO DOGS: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,800 · HealthPROJECT SUNSHINE INC: $1,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$4,797,634Other$110,540Civil Rights$44,618International$12,500Recreation & Sports$12,500Health$2,800

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 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
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.

Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Niederhoffer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Niederhoffer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 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.

    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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