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The Retelny Family Foundation Aka Youth Headway Foundation at a glance

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The Retelny Family Foundation Aka Youth Headway 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.

$74k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$28k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$124kRecreation & Sports$56kInternational$21kEducation$15kReligion$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kArts & Culture$1kYouth Development$500
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 50% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $500 → 5%THE STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG: $1k → 9%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%THE JEWISH EDUCATION PROJECT: $5k → 17%EZER MZION INC: $4k → 20%SAN ANTONIO WAVE: $510 → 16%USA TRACK AND FIELD FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $500 → 11%HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $500 → 5%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $28k → 9%WOMENS INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION (WIZO): $10k → 17%USA TRACK AND FIELD FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%HUNTERS CMT4B3 RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 9%WOMENS INTERNATIONAL ZIONEST ORGANIZATION (WIZO): $5k → 17%USA TRACK AND FIELD FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 9%WIZO USA - WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION: $4k → 17%HUNTERS CMT4B3 RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 9%WOMENS INTERNATIONAL ZIONEST ORGANIZATION (WIZO): $2k → 17%SCARSDALE SYNAGOGUE: $5k → 9%HUNTERS CMT4B3 RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $23k → 17%SCARSDALE SYNAGOGUE: $5k → 9%STARDUST JEWISH FERTILITY FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 17%AMERICAN FIRENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER: $5k → 9%FRIENDS OF THE SCARSDALE LIBRARY INC: $5k → 9%AMERICAN FIRENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER: $5k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER: $4k → 9%HUNTERS CMT4B3 RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 9%SCARSDALE VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $2k → 9%SCARSDALE SYNAGOGUE: $1k → 9%WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL: $10k → 9%WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL: $10k → 9%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$206k · 7 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$206k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
0%

Still filing today

86%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalEducationRecreation & SportsReligionArts & CultureOther
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

  • UT
    USA TRACK AND FIELD FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +6%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $52k · revenue +323%
  • HC
    HUNTERS CMT4B3 RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $46k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • BO
    BOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -5%
  • SV
    SCARSDALE VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • SJ
    STARDUST JEWISH FERTILITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +81%
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
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
6
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
11
Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida Inc

To provide high quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching, research, charity care and financial responsibility.

Health
12
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation; the most unlike its peers is San Antonio Wave. 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 16 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)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $51,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CE…WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION: $20,800 · InternationalWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZ…EZER MIZION: $3,600 · InternationalHUNTERS CMT4B3 RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $45,500 · HealthHUNTERS CMT4B3 RESEARCH FOUNDATIO…White Plains Hospital Medical Center: $20,000 · HealthWhite Plains Hospital Medical Cen…+2 more: $3,000 · HealthUSA TRACK AND FIELD FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · Recreation & SportsUSA TRACK AND FIELD FOUNDAT…SCARSDALE SYNAGOGUE: $11,880 · OtherSCARSDALE VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $2,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO WAVE: $510 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $500 · OtherCornell University: $5,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE SCARSDALE LIBRARY INC: $5,000 · EducationBOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $5,000 · ReligionSTUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
International$75,900Health$68,500Recreation & Sports$55,000Other$14,890Education$10,000Religion$5,000Arts & Culture$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUSA TRACK AND FIELD FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $51,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHUNTERS CMT4B3 RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $45,500 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION: $20,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SCARSDALE LIBRARY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSCARSDALE VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY15.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Retelny Family Foundation Aka Youth Headway Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Retelny Family Foundation Aka Youth Headway Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–10%
    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

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    Find your warmest path to The Retelny Family Foundation Aka Youth Headway 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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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