· Private foundation
The Revlis 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $1,001,079 |
| NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND | $201,079 |
| THE BREARLEY SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| LUSTGARTEN | $198,625 |
| CORPSAFRICA | $100,552 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $100,540 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN | $50,391 |
| EARTH JUSTICE | $50,000 |
| SHARE OUR STRENGTH - NO KID HUNGRY | $50,000 |
| 2025 PRECISION OPHTHALMOLOGY BOOK (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY) | $50,000 |
| NBA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $876k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DUKE UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +1%- CCORPSAFRICA9× · 2017–2025 · $851k · revenue ×32 · 26% of their budget
SHARE OUR STRENGTH8× · 2018–2025 · $475k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- MOMUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORYone grant, 2023 · $50k
- TBTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION - MY BROTHERS KEEPERone grant, 2017 · $50k
- PTPUBLIC THEATRE - RESTRICTED - DELACORTE THEATERone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Enhance Columbia University's education mission by acquiring and publishing outstanding original works by scholars and others that contribute to an understanding of global human concerns. Columbia University Press became part of the…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…
The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
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.…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CORPSAFRICA ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds THE BREARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JERUSALEM INTERNATIONAL YMCA ↗
- Who funds EBA FOUNDATION ABIGAIL BLACK ELBAUM TRUSTEE ↗
- Who funds GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHYHUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds READ AHEAD INC ↗
- Who funds PARK CHILDREN'S DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Revlis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Revlis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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