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The Robert E Enslein Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Robert E Enslein Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$105k
Granted FY2026still arriving
3
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$335kHealth$332kArts & Culture$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kHuman Services$5kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2026 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$329k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES$70,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$20,000
GREENWICH HOSPITAL$15,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%KBAQ RADIOkBACH: $2k → 11%PBS CHANNEL 13: $2k → 12%HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $70k → 10%MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%GREENWICH HOSPITAL: $30k → 9%YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $5k → 12%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%KBACH RADIO: $1k → 11%HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $65k → 10%MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%GREENWICH HOSPITAL: $17k → 9%YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $5k → 12%KBAQ RADIOkBACH: $1k → 11%HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $65k → 10%MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%GREENWICH HOSPITAL: $15k → 9%HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $50k → 10%PARKINSONS DISEASE FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%GREENWICH HOSPITAL: $15k → 9%HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $50k → 10%MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%FREINDS OF NATHANIEL WITHERELL: $5k → 9%HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $30k → 10%PARKINSONS DISEASE FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%GREENWICH HOSPITAL: $5k → 9%WNET: $3k → 17%GREENWICH HOSPITAL: $5k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $20k → 17%GREENWICH HOSPITAL: $5k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CTR FOJO RESEARCH: $20k → 17%VARIOUS MISC ONTRIBUTIONS PD LESS THAN 5K: $1k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $15k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $3k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $3k → 17%WNET PBS: $3k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEPT OF OPTHAMOLOGY: $25k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEPT OF OPTHAMOLOGY: $25k → 17%COLUMBIA OPTHAMOLOGY: $20k → 17%COLUMBIA OPTHAMOLOGY: $20k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $20k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEPT OF OPTHAMOLOGY: $20k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $20k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEPT OF OPTHAMOLOGY: $20k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEPT OF OPTHAMOLOGY: $20k → 17%RECONSTRUCTING HOPE: $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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$706k · 8 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +177% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2026, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$706k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+177%
-3%

Still filing today

50%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
HealthEducationArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES
    6× · 2021–2026 · $330k · revenue +71%
  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
    4× · 2017–2020 · $95k · revenue +578%
  • GH
    GREENWICH HOSPITAL
    7× · 2017–2026 · $92k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • CU
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CTR FOJO RESEARCH
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • EU
    EMORY UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF NATHANIEL WITHERELL INC
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -3%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
The Rockefeller University

The rockefeller university (the university) is a world renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics. the university's 73 laboratories conduct both clinical and basic…

Education
8
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

—
10
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yale University; the most unlike its peers is Greenwich Hospital. 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

8 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. 8 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $330,000 · EducationHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGESTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $75,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW …+1 more: $10,000 · EducationTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $95,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION …GREENWICH HOSPITAL: $92,000 · HealthGREENWICH HOSPITALPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INCCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEPT OF OPTHAMOLOGY: $110,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEPT OF…Individual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CTR FOJO RESEARCH: $20,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL…EMORY UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Other+7 more: $20,500 · Other+7 moreFRIENDS OF NATHANIEL WITHERELL INC: $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterWNET: $3,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$415,000Health$217,000Other$200,500Public Safety & Disaster$5,000Arts & Culture$3,000

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 budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $330,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $92,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NATHANIEL WITHERELL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWNET: $3,000 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF NATHANIEL WITHERELL INC ↗
  • Who funds WNET ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Robert E Enslein Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert E Enslein Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 19 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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