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The Ornstein Family Foundation at a glance

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The Ornstein Family 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.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$696kEducation$3kReligion$3kCommunity Improvement$1kHealth$625Food & Nutrition$375Philanthropy$306Recreation & Sports$300Other$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$9,760
Median grant
1
States reached
$9k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOGA PEACE KULA$9,760
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $225) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $50 → 6%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $75 → 16%THE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH & OCEAN COUNTIES: $100 → 6%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

NY
OH
NJ
MD
AZ
DC
TX
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$698k · 4 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +100% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
26

Total granted

$698k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%
+25%

Still filing today

50%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • YP
    YOGA PEACE KULA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $695k · revenue -84% · 91% of their budget
  • KS
    KINGS SONS 820 INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k
  • CV
    CAREGIVER VOLUNTEERS OF CENTRAL JERSEY- A FAITH IN ACTION PROGRAM INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • CA
    CONGREGATION AHAVAT OLAM
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • HT
    HOWELL TWP PBA LOCAL #228
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • HT
    HOWELL TOWNSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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
Virtua Medical Group Pa

The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…

Health
2
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
3
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
4
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
5
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
6
Nuvance Health

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health
7
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
8
The Foundation for the Center for Hospice and Palliative Care Inc

The mission of the hospice foundation (foundation) is to raise philanthropic dollars for the benefit of the center for hospice care (chc) for the purpose of supporting and promoting the mission, vision, and standards of chc and global…

Philanthropy
9
Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health
10
Island Harvest Ltd

The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.

Human Services
11
Greenwich Hospital

To provide healthcare services.

Health
12
Nuvance Health Medical Practice Ct Inc

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Deborah Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Yoga Peace Kula. 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

14 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. 14 of the 31 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOGA PEACE KULA: $694,550 · OtherYOGA PEACE KULA+18 more: $8,909 · OtherCAREGIVER VOLUNTEERS OF CENTRAL JERSEY- A FAITH IN ACTION PROGRAM INC: $1,675 · EnvironmentTIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC: $200 · HealthDEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $75 · HealthCOVENANT HOUSE: $100 · Human ServicesTHE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL: $100 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC: $75 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $50 · Human ServicesNETWORK FOR GOOD: $206 · Public Safety & DisasterBRODIE FUND INC: $100 · AnimalsWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $100 · AnimalsKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100 · Education
Other$703,459Environment$1,675Health$375Human Services$325Public Safety & Disaster$206Animals$200Education$100

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 budgetYOGA PEACE KULA: $694,550 over 8y, 91% of budgetCAREGIVER VOLUNTEERS OF CENTRAL JERSEY- A FAITH IN ACTION PROGRAM INC: $1,675 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $206 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRODIE FUND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 34%
  • Covenant House New Jersey Inc: 34% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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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How do I get to The Ornstein Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Ornstein Family 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 31 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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