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The Richard and Iris Abrons Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$52k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Arts & Culture$98kHuman Services$84kInternational$36kHealth$27kEducation$12kYouth Development$8kReligion$7kEmployment$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
$2,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$56k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S AID$22,500
Individual grant recipient$6,760
BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$6,000
HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT$6,000
THE NEW SCHOOL EQUITY FOR CHILDREN$5,000
NEW ADVENTURES FOR CHILDREN$2,750
LINC (LITERACY IN COMMUNITY)$1,000
SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC$500
MOUNT SINAI DUBIA BREAST CENTER$250
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$180
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$110
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES TODAY: $250 → 20%CHILDREN'S AID: $31k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $23k → 17%CHILDRENS AID: $5k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $6k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $6k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $4k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $26k → 17%BRONXWORKS: $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 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$228k · 9 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
19

Total granted

$228k
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+60%

Still filing today

67%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther

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

  • BC
    BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    4× · 2018–2024 · $85k · revenue +11%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY
    4× · 2018–2024 · $84k · revenue +70%
  • TS
    THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $1k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • WW
    WORLD WIDE ORPHANS
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • BRONXWORKS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +117%
  • NF
    NEW FEDERAL THEATRE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +49%

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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Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
2
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
3
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
4
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
5
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
6
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
7
The Studio Museum in Harlem

The studio museum in harlem is a contemporary art museum that focuses on the work of artists of african descent - as well as work that has been inspired and influenced by african culture - past and present; through its exhibitions,…

Arts & Culture
8
New York University

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.

Education
9
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
10
New York Historical Society

The founding mission of the new-york historical society ("the new york historical "tnyh") is to collect, preserve, and interpret, for the broadest possible public, material relevant to the history of the united states in general and of new…

Arts & Culture
11
The Newark Museum Association

Nmoa mission statement is: we welcome everyone with inclusive experiences that spark curiosity and foster community.

Arts & Culture
12
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry Street Settlement and the most unlike its peers is Untermyer Gardens Conservancy Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 32 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)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY — $83,600 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETYHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $16,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENTBRONXWORKS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesBRONXWORKS INC+1 more — $250 · Human ServicesBRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $84,500 · Arts & CultureBRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUMNEW FEDERAL THEATRE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureNEW FEDERAL THEATRE INC+2 more — $760 · Arts & CultureMOUNT SINAI ADOLESCENT HEALTH CENTER — $17,500 · OtherMOUNT SINAI ADOLESCENT HEALTH CE…Individual grant recipient — $13,295 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWORLD WIDE ORPHANS — $10,000 · OtherWORLD WIDE ORPHANSTHE NEW SCHOOL EQUITY FOR CHILDREN — $10,000 · OtherTHE NEW SCHOOL EQUITY FOR CHILDR…CONGREGATION BNAI JESHURUN — $7,250 · OtherCONGREGATION BNAI JESHURUNIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNY MEDICAL COLLEGE — $5,000 · OtherNY MEDICAL COLLEGEBIG BROTHERSSISTERS — $5,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERSSISTERSMCC THEATRE — $3,000 · Other+11 more — $8,750 · Other+11 moreUNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsPLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC — $1,500 · HealthTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · HealthMOHONK PRESERVE INC — $1,000 · Environment
Human Services$109,850Arts & Culture$95,260Other$84,795Recreation & Sports$5,000Health$2,500Environment$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $84,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY — $83,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRONXWORKS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW FEDERAL THEATRE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetUNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOHONK PRESERVE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $580 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $180 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY
  • Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT
  • Who funds BRONXWORKS INC
  • Who funds NEW FEDERAL THEATRE INC
  • Who funds UNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC
  • Who funds MOHONK PRESERVE INC
  • Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art

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.

The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organization The Richard and Iris Abrons Foundation Inc 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    4report 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, 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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Richard and Iris Abrons Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Richard and Iris Abrons Foundation Inc 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 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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