· Private foundation
The Robert M Abramson Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE DALCROZE CENTER | $6,000 |
| BARNERT TEMPLE | $6,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL WINE FOOD SOCIETY FDT | $4,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS | $4,000 |
| ISADORA DUNCAN DANCE COMPANY | $3,000 |
| SOUTHAMPTON CULTURAL CENTER | $2,500 |
| DALCROZE SOCIETY OF AMERICA-NY CHAP | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TDThe Dalcroze Center6× · 2017–2024 · $37k
- BMBARNERT MEMORIAL TEMPLE8× · 2017–2024 · $35k
- FAFRACTURED ATLAS OUTREACH PROGRAM3× · 2017–2021 · $18k
Funded once
- DPDOME PROJECT INCone grant, 2017 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $4k
- AUARTS UNBOUND INCone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
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.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
To advance arts-focused initiatives for artists, entrepreneurs and residents, cultivating creative space within a sustainable roosevelt row arts district
See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
Artsfund strengthens the community by supporting the arts through leadership, advocacy, and grant making.
To support artists of all disciplines by offering affordable studio rental space and a diverse calendar of classes, events, and workshops.
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…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
Provision of pro bono legal and consulting services to qualifying individuals/companies in the creative arts.
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 BCT BROOKLYN CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds DOME PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS UNBOUND INC ↗
- Who funds SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds ZAMIR CHORAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Freelander Family Charitable Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Robert M Abramson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert M Abramson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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