· Private foundation
The Robert and Joyce Menschel Family Fdn
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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of THE ROBERT AND JOYCE MENSCHEL FAMILY FDN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $129k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $220k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK CITY COMMUNITY TRUST | $1,150,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $124,500 |
| MAKEWAY FOUNDATION | $95,000 |
| PUBLICOLOR | $25,000 |
| HIGHLINE (FRIENDS OF THE HIGHLINE) | $25,000 |
| ART OMI PAVILLION AT CHATHAM ALICE AYCOCK FUND | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $19,000 |
| PUBLIC THEATER | $10,000 |
| DOMINICAN FRIARS OF IRVING TEXAS | $10,000 |
| TREE FOLKS | $10,000 |
| L'ARCHE LONG ISLAND | $10,000 |
| CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FRESH AIR FUND #2949 | $5,000 |
| FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
105 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 76 since wound down; 17 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART6× · 2020–2025 · $796k · revenue +119%
- TSTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2025 · $257k · revenue +215%
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- ICInternational Council of the Museum of Modern Artone grant, 2020 · $250k
- FFFOCUS FORWARD PROJECT INCone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -32%
- PNPHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INCone grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue +6%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
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).
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
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."
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
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 architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Womens Art Center of the Hamptons Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Elysabeth Kleinhans Theatrical Foundation. 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.
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 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
165 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 165 of the 301 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOCUS FORWARD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds PHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA PAROLE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLICOLOR INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT WORK VISUAL STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LARCHE LONG ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA DONOR ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds EAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ABILITY CENTER OF VIRGINIA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · J & Ar Foundation · Daniel M Neidich & Brooke Garber Foundation · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · David B Kriser Foundation Inc · Leon Levy Foundation · Ag Foundation · The Lawrence and Carol Saper Foundation · The Donald and Barbara Zucker Family Foundation · Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Inc C/O Joel E Sammet & Co LLP
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 Robert and Joyce Menschel Family Fdn 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.
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
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.
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