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The Robert M Minkoff Foundation at a glance

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The Robert M Minkoff Foundation

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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$978k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.0MPhilanthropy$2.4MHousing & Shelter$125kEducation$14k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.9M
$970,123
Median grant
2
States reached
$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANIEL AND JESSICA MINKOFF PHILANTHROPIC FUND$977,891
BENJAMIN AND RACHEL LOVING PHILANTRHOPIC FUND$970,123
HOUSING UNLIMITED INC$20,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DANIEL AND JESSICA MINKOFF PHILANTHROPIC FUND: $978k → 10%CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS: $253k → 13%URBANGLASS: $10k → 20%GLASSROOTS ART GALLERY: $10k → 10%BERGSTROM-MAHLER MUSEUM OF GLASS: $17k → 11%PILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL: $10k → 9%MUSEUM OF GLASS: $1.7M → 9%LILLSTREET ART CENTER: $24k → 14%SALEM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $14k → 11%HOUSING UNLIMITED INC: $25k → 8%DANIEL AND JESSICA MINKOFF PHILANTHROPIC FUND: $216k → 10%CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS: $20k → 13%GLASSROOTS ART GALLERY: $1k → 10%PILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL: $5k → 9%MUSEUM OF GLASS: $607k → 9%HOUSING UNLIMITED INC: $20k → 8%CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS: $17k → 13%PILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL: $5k → 9%MUSEUM OF GLASS: $375k → 9%HOUSING UNLIMITED INC: $20k → 8%CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS: $17k → 13%MUSEUM OF GLASS: $624 → 9%HOUSING UNLIMITED INC: $20k → 8%CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS: $17k → 13%HOUSING UNLIMITED INC: $20k → 8%HOUSING UNLIMITED INC: $20k → 8%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $20k → 8%BENJAMIN AND RACHEL LOVING PHILANTRHOPIC FUND: $970k → 8%BENJAMIN AND RACHEL LOVING PHILANTRHOPIC FUND: $216k → 8%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 7 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$5.5M
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+62%

Still filing today

57%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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

  • MO
    Museum of Glass
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2.6M · revenue +70% · 47% of their budget
  • TC
    THE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $324k · revenue +25%
  • HU
    HOUSING UNLIMITED INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $125k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • LA
    LILLSTREET ART CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $24k
  • BM
    BERGSTROM-MAHLER MUSEUM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue +62%
  • SC
    SALEM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $14k · revenue +83%
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
Glass Art Society

Glass Art Society seeks to advance glass arts world-wide by providing a means for networking for itsmembers, as well as providing updates on current trends and happenings in glass.

Arts & Culture
2
Pittsburgh Glass Center Inc

Glass art: we teach it. we create it. we promote it. we support those who make it. pittsburgh glass center (pgc) cultivates an inclusive and welcoming environment that encourages everyone, from the casually curious to the master artist, to…

Arts & Culture
3
The Michigan Glass Project
Public Benefit
4
Berggruen Institute
Education
5
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
6
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
7
Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass

To further the development and appreciation of art made from glass through informing collectors, critics and curators of current happenings; encouraging and supporting museum exhibitions, university glass departments, specialized teaching…

Arts & Culture
8
Public Glass

Public Glass is a studio formed to meet the needs of Bay Area artists working in hot glass and students interested in glass art.Continued on Schedule O

Youth Development
9
Imagine Museum Corporation

To elevate contemporary glass art through exhibitions, education, and research. the collection, now at 1,600 pieces, aspires to be the most inspiring collection of contemporary glass art in the world.

Arts & Culture
10
Wiener Museum of Decorative Arts Inc
Arts & Culture
11
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
12
Glass Manufacturing Industry Council

To facilitate, organize and promote the interests and economic growth, and sustainability of the glass industry through education and cooperation in the areas of technology, productivity, innovation and the environment.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Corning Museum of Glass; the most unlike its peers is Salem Community College 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

8 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. 8 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DANIEL AND JESSICA MINKOFF PHILANTHROPIC FUND: $1,193,649 · OtherDANIEL AND JESSICA MINKOFF PHILANTHROPIC FUNDBENJAMIN AND RACHEL LOVING PHILANTRHOPIC FUND: $1,185,881 · OtherBENJAMIN AND RACHEL LOVING PHILANTRHOPIC FUNDTHE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS: $323,914 · OtherTHE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS+2 more: $35,000 · OtherMuseum of Glass: $2,643,672 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Glass+3 more: $46,500 · Arts & CultureHOUSING UNLIMITED INC: $125,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropySALEM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $13,618 · Education
Other$2,738,444Arts & Culture$2,690,172Housing & Shelter$125,000Philanthropy$20,000Education$13,618

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMuseum of Glass: $2,643,672 over 4y, 47% of budgetTHE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS: $323,914 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSING UNLIMITED INC: $125,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERGSTROM-MAHLER MUSEUM INC: $16,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSALEM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $13,618 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetURBANGLASS NEW YORK CONTEMPORARY GLASS CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Art Alliance for Cont…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Art Alliance for Contemporary GlassTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 M Minkoff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert M Minkoff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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