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· Private foundation
THE RETELNY FAMILY FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$74k
Granted FY2025
7
Grants
1
Communities
$28k
Largest
01What you fund
0169% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Recreation & Sports$55kHealth$49kInternational$45kEducation$10kArts & Culture$1kOther$71k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
scarsdale
2025
libraryscarsdale
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
- AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC$28,000
- HUNTERS CMT4B3 RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC$23,000
- SCARSDALE SYNAGOGUE$5,400
- CORNELL UNIVERSITY$5,000
- FRIENDS OF THE SCARSDALE LIBRARY INC$5,000
- WIZO USA - WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION$4,000
- EZER MZION INC$3,600
02The need
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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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 13%. 50% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$192k · 8 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +174% since the first grant, against +89% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
8
7
Total granted
$192k
$21k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+174%
+89%
Still filing today
50%
57%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthInternationalEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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
- UTUSA TRACK AND FIELD FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +392%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC3× · 2022–2025 · $42k · revenue +174%
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $1k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- WIWOMENS INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
- TJTHE JEWISH EDUCATION PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $5k
- SVSCARSDALE VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +96%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your 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.
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Sarnoff Cardiovascular
To support the pursuit of careers in cardiovascular science.
Health
2
Jerry Rubin Foundation for Cancer Care
To provide financial and other assistance and support to cancer patients.
Health
3
International Surfing Association Inc
To develop and promote the sport of surfing globally. the organization is recognized by the international olympic committee as the world governing authority for surfing, standup paddle (sup) surfing and racing, and all other wave riding…
Recreation & Sports
4
Island Hospital Foundation
To raise funds to support island health and its commitment to community health.
Unclassified
5
Focused Ultrasound Foundation
Organize, conduct, and fund research, foster collaboration through meetings, symposia and workshops, cultivate the next generation through fellowships and internships, and collect and disseminate knowledge.
Health
6
Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc
To support cancer research in israel, for the benefit of israel and all mankind.
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7
The Norml Foundation
To foster support, research, and public education of the various effects and benefits of marijuana.
Civil Rights
8
Shlofmitz Heart Foundation Inc
Promoting the enhancement of cardiac care, well-being and research.
Health
9
Samf Fund
The primary activity of samf fund is to support the san antonio medical foundation, a 501(c) (3) organization by managing its investments and unrelated real estate.
Philanthropy
10
Freewill Impact Fund
Making charitable non-cash giving to nonprofit organizations easy.
Philanthropy
11
Foundation for Smfm
To advance care in pregnancy through research and education.
Education
12
Friends of Israeli Flying Aid Inc
Friends of israeli flying aid, inc. raises funds to provide funding to a charitable organization in israel, israeli flying aid, for its charitable mission of supplying humanitarian aid and medical assistance in war torn areas of the world.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stuttering Association for the Young Inc and the most unlike its peers is Scarsdale Volunteer Ambulance Corps. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$70,690Recreation & Sports$55,000Health$48,500International$45,100Education$10,000Arts & Culture$1,000
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 USA TRACK AND FIELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUNTERS CMT4B3 RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CORNELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SCARSDALE LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds EZER MZION INC ↗
- Who funds SCARSDALE VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds STARDUST JEWISH FERTILITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO WAVE ↗
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.
Jewish Communal FundNY12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation THE RETELNY FAMILY 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HUNTERS CMT4B3 RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue held over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 853259676 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on HUNTERS CMT4B3 RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to The Retelny Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines