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The Robert a & Renee E Belfer Family 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.

$20k
Granted FY2020
2
Grants FY2020
2
Organizations funded FY2020
50%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 13
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$87k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 50% of the organizations The Robert a & Renee E Belfer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20202$20k50%
FY20192$40k50%
FY201812$96k67%
FY201713$540kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Religion$293kEducation$290kHealth$256kArts & Culture$55kCommunity Improvement$25kRecreation & Sports$7kInternational$7kHuman Services$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($209k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Robert a & Renee E Belfer Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association: $293,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRegional Plan Association Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Federation of Arts Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRiverdale Country School Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDalton Schools Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Arts Arena International Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Institute for Near East Policy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Israel Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMorselife Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York City Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York-Presbyterian Fund Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Policy Forum Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSid Jacobson Jewish Community Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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Find your warmest path to The Robert a & Renee E Belfer Family 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.

About The Robert a & Renee E Belfer Family Foundation

How much does The Robert a & Renee E Belfer Family Foundation give?
The Robert a & Renee E Belfer Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $20,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does The Robert a & Renee E Belfer Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Religion (31%), Education (31%), Health (27%).
Who are The Robert a & Renee E Belfer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association ($293k), Regional Plan Association Inc ($25k), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($25k).
Does The Robert a & Renee E Belfer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Robert a & Renee E Belfer Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is The Robert a & Renee E Belfer Family Foundation based?
The Robert a & Renee E Belfer Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 24 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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