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The R David Sudarsky Charitable Testamentary Trust

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$445k
Granted FY2018
13
Grants FY2018
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2018 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
$30,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
National Endowment for the Arts$100,000
The Jewish Musuem$50,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$50,000
UJA Federation of New York$50,000
Southern Poverty Law Center$50,000
National Philanthropic Trust$40,000
Merryall Center for the Arts$30,000
Eye Bank for Sight Restoration$30,000
Planned Parenthood of New York$15,000
ACLU Foundation$10,000
CitySquash$8,500
ST Joseph High School$6,500
Marlboro Music School$5,000
02The need
02

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%National Philanthropic Trust: $40k → 7%UJA Federation of New York: $50k → 17%CitySquash: $9k → 28%Southern Poverty Law Center: $50k → 18%Merryall Center for the Arts: $30k → 9%ST Joseph High School: $7k → 9%Marlboro Music School: $5k → 11%Eye Bank for Sight Restoration: $30k → 17%Planned Parenthood of New York: $15k → 17%The Jewish Musuem: $50k → 17%ACLU Foundation: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your field

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.

1
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
2
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
3
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
4
New York University School of Law Foundation

The foundation, a subsidiary of new york university, fosters legal education and research at new york university's school of law by awarding scholarships, making grants for educational purposes related to law, and supporting programs of…

Education
5
Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy
6
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
7
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
8
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

9
Anti-Defamation League

Anti-defamation league (the "league") is a leading anti-hate organization that was founded in 1913 in response to an escalating climate of antisemitism and bigotry. (continued in sch. o)its timeless mission is to stop the defamation of the…

Civil Rights
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

11
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
12
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust and the most unlike its peers is City Squash Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 13 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

National Endowment for the Arts — $100,000 · OtherNational Endowment for the ArtsThe Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York — $30,000 · OtherThe Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The …Merryall Center for the Arts — $30,000 · OtherMerryall Center for the ArtsPlanned Parenthood of New York — $15,000 · OtherPlanned Parenthood of New YorkST JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL — $6,500 · Other+1 more — $5,000 · OtherUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-F…NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $40,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC…THE JEWISH MUSEUM — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH M…SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $50,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POV…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $50,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL …AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Civil RightsCity Squash Inc — $8,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$186,500Philanthropy$90,000Arts & Culture$50,000Crime & Legal$50,000Health$50,000Civil Rights$10,000Recreation & Sports$8,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Squash Inc — $8,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The R David Sudarsky Charitable Testamentary Trust 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The R David Sudarsky Charitable Testamentary Trust?

    Find your warmest path to The R David Sudarsky Charitable Testamentary Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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