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The Robert and Joyce Menschel Family Fdn at a glance

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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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.8MArts & Culture$2.2MEducation$722kHealth$630kHuman Services$375kCrime & Legal$366kHousing & Shelter$204kCivil Rights$162kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $129k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $220k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
DOMINICAN FRIARS OF IRVING TEXAS$10,000
PUBLIC THEATER$10,000
L'ARCHE LONG ISLAND$10,000
TREE FOLKS$10,000
CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
FRESH AIR FUND #2949$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAMP KESEM: $250 → 14%HOUR CHILDREN: $5k → 13%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $50k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $15k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $5k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $1k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%WIN NYC: $5k → 17%WIN NYC: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
DE
AZ
SC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.2M · 106 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

106 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 77 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

106
175

Total granted

$6.2M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+16%

Still filing today

66%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    6× · 2020–2025 · $796k · revenue +119%
  • TS
    THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $257k · revenue +215%
  • LU
    LOYOLA UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOCUS FORWARD PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -32%
  • IC
    International Council of the Museum of Modern Art
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • PN
    PHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue +6%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
2
New Museum of Contemporary Art

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.

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
5
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
6
New York Botanical Garden

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…

Environment
7
The Paley Center for Media

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…

Arts & Culture
8
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
The Architectural League of New York

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…

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11
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
12
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Womens Art Center of the Hamptons Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

165 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 165 of the 299 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
162/165
Grantees still filing
110/165
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK CITY COMMUNITY TRUST: $2,750,000 · OtherNEW YORK CITY COMMUNITY TRUSTInternational Council of the Museum of Modern Art: $250,000 · OtherMAKEWAY FOUNDATION: $245,000 · Other+128 more: $1,748,100 · Other+128 moreMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $796,300 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM …Museum of Modern Art: $70,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $62,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $52,500 · Arts & CultureLIGHT WORK VISUAL STUDIES INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+28 more: $384,000 · Arts & Culture+28 moreLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationLOYOLA UN…The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $191,500 · EducationThe New Y…PUBLICOLOR INC: $60,200 · EducationPUBLICOLO…RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $40,000 · EducationRINGLING …NEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $30,000 · Education+9 more: $103,750 · Education+9 moreFOCUS FORWARD PROJECT INC: $250,000 · Crime & LegalLOUISIANA PAROLE PROJECT INC: $100,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $20,000 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $16,000 · Crime & LegalTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $257,000 · HealthEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $27,500 · HealthNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthABILITY CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $25,000 · Health+4 more: $21,000 · HealthCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $55,000 · Civil RightsOKLAHOMA DONOR ALLIANCE INC: $35,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $10,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · Civil RightsLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN NEED INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOUR CHILDREN INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$4,993,100Arts & Culture$1,464,800Education$675,450Crime & Legal$386,000Health$355,500Civil Rights$107,000Human Services$85,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $796,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $257,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $191,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLOUISIANA PAROLE PROJECT INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $62,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLICOLOR INC: $60,200 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $52,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHT WORK VISUAL STUDIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $42,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLARCHE LONG ISLAND INC: $40,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOKLAHOMA DONOR ALLIANCE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC: $32,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC: $31,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASOLO THEATRE INC: $30,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $28,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFeeding America: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetABILITY CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $25,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS OF NEW YORK HARBOR CONSERVANCY DBA FEDERAL HALL CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTreeFolks Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSTUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $17,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON LIBRARY: $15,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRANDALL'S ISLAND PARK ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEAST HAMPTON MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $13,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…J & Ar FoundationDaniel M Neidich & Br…Charina Foundation In…The Goldman Sachs Cha…David B Kriser Founda…Leon Levy FoundationAg FoundationThe Lawrence and Caro…The Donald and Barbar…Anna-Maria and Stephe…
Jewish Communal FundNY34.1× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Robert and Joyce Menschel Family Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert and Joyce Menschel Family Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
52report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Robert and Joyce Menschel Family Fdn 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 299 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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