How much did THE RIGGIO FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$5.7MEducation$3.3MAnimals$1.7MRecreation & Sports$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.4MEnvironment$390kHealth$303kHuman Services$196kCommunity Improvement$60kOther$7.9M

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

2019

affordablerelationshipsactivitiesdiverselifelongincarceratedsocial

2020

artisticgrowthvoicesvital forceforce proudlyproudly unitesworships social

2021

locatedmanhattanpipe organoffersrealizingadultrecovery

2022

caregiverspresentcollectionspecialchildhoodpotentialworks art

2023

contributed propertybook valuemethod determinefair marketmarket valueplantspecial olympics

2024

broadinclusivesystememphasistreatmentotherspreserve enhance

2025

ensuringdignityveteranincarcerationbirdaimingeducating

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k17 grants · $59k
$10k–50k13 grants · $226k
$50k–250k3 grants · $267k
$250k+5 grants · $3.4M

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$68M

Total assets

Largest grants

DIA ART FOUNDATION$1,000,000
Weill Cornell$1,000,000
HAYGROUND SCHOOL and Camp$750,000
GREEN IS THE NEW BLUE$375,000
PECONIC LAND TRUST$250,000
AIKEN HORSE PARK FOUNDATION$117,000
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$100,000
TULANE UNIVERSITY$50,000
HAMPTON CLASSIC HORSE SHOW INC$40,000
The Ellen Hermanson Foundation$30,000
SURFRIDER FOUNDATION$25,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$25,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$23,348
EQUESTRIAN AID FOUNDATION$13,000
EQUINE ADVOCATES$10,000

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $196k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of THE RIGGIO FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 69% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 64% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

THE RIGGIO FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 3.6% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$12M · 71 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

71 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$12M

$9.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+25%

Still filing today

62%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureAnimalsHealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

JA
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER
4× · 2018–2021 · $1.6M · revenue +10%
GI
GREEN IS THE NEW BLUE
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +947% · 97% of their budget
BT
BROOKLYN TECH alumni FOUNDATION
2× · 2018–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +6% · 50% of their budget

Funded once

WC
Weill Cornell Medicine
one grant, 2021 · $2.4M
TS
THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM
one grant, 2018 · $2.3M · revenue 0%
SC
SPELMAN COLLEGE
one grant, 2020 · $2.0M · revenue +16%

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.

New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful, see schedule o.

Arts & Culture

International Center of Photography

The international center of photography is a center where photographs are collected, protected, researched, and exhibited; a place where students of all ages and accomplishments learn to make images and are challenged by technical and…

Arts & Culture

New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

To empower artists at critical stages in their creative lives

Arts & Culture

The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

—

New York Academy of Sciences

To advance scientific knowledge and to increase the number of scientifically informed individuals.

—

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

Thompson Park Conservancy Inc

Zoo new york, by example and action, provides knowledge and motivation for conserving nature in new york state through science-based natural and cultural experiences.

Arts & Culture

The Neue Galerie New York

Arts & Culture

Historic House Trust of New York

The historic house trust of new york city (hht), in partnership with the new york city department of parks & recreation (nyc parks), advocates for, promotes, and provides expertise to preserve 23 publicly owned historic sites in new york…

Arts & Culture

The Whaling Museum Society Inc

The Museum engages the community in exploring the diversity of our whaling heritage and its impacts to enrich and inform our lives.

Arts & Culture

The Pierpont Morgan Library

Museum and independent research library (see Schedule O)located in the heart of New York City, the Morgan Library & Museum began as the personal library of financier, collector, and cultural benefactor J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913). The…

Education

The Brooklyn Institute of Arts

Bring people together through art & experiences that inspire celebration, compassion & courage.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Yorkers for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Icahn School of Medicine At Mount Sinai. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.9%1/105

the rest of the field

10,117/120,655

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

06the grantee network

103 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

100/103

Grantees still filing

77/103

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$8,494,166Arts & Culture$5,678,750Education$3,298,500Animals$1,679,855Recreation & Sports$1,422,530Philanthropy$1,379,400Environment$390,000

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.

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.

May and Samuel Rudin Family FoundationNY24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg · The New York Community Trust · John and Margo Catsimatidis Foundation Inc · Daniel M Neidich & Brooke Garber · The Otis Booth Foundation · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation · Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc · Leon Levy 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 RIGGIO 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

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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: GREEN IS THE NEW BLUE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~38 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 10.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 841913335 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 GREEN IS THE NEW BLUE, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 38 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 97% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Riggio Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Riggio 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.

THE RIGGIO FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

103 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Riggio Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE RIGGIO FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

103 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Riggio Foundation?

More from the funding graph