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The Roisen Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Roisen Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$323k
Granted FY2018
2
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$162k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
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 2018.

Philanthropy$333kEducation$5kHealth$4kArts & Culture$1kCivil Rights$750International$250
02FY2018 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$161,963
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE RITA AND SHELDON KWAIT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC$161,963
RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FUND INC$161,087
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER: $250 → 14%THE RITA AND SHELDON KWAIT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $162k → 6%AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOCIATION: $250 → 11%CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA SOCIETY: $500 → 13%ORT AMERICA: $5k → 17%RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FUND INC: $161k → 16%DYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%UJA FEDERATION OF NY: $10k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS: $250 → 17%VISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK: $500 → 17%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $500 → 17%HADASSAH THE WOMEN'S ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA: $500 → 17%THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $360 → 17%THIRTEEN WNET: $250 → 17%LENOX HILL HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $500 → 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 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
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
2
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
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3
The Martha and Max Rubinstein Family Foundation (Grossman Office)
Philanthropy
4
Natan and Lidia Peisach Family Foundation - C/O Monica Sasson
Philanthropy
5
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
6
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
7
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
8
Northwell Health Inc

Northwell health is the parent company of a fully integrated health system that is committed to promote clinical care, health education, conduct biomedical research, and caring for the community regardless of ability to pay.

Community Improvement
9
The Diller-Von Furstenberg Family Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
11
Erica Wertheim Zohar Family Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
12
Northwell Healthcare Inc

Northwell healthcare inc. coordinates policy making and strategic planning by providing advisory and administrative support services to affiliated health care organizations within northwell health; whose mission is to improve the health of…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ort America Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Rita & Sheldon Kwiat Family Foundation Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 16 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE RITA & SHELDON KWIAT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $161,963 · PhilanthropyTHE RITA & SHELDON KWIAT FAMILY FOUNDATION INCUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $9,867 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES…RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FUND INC: $161,087 · OtherRENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FUND INC+6 more: $7,184 · OtherDYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthLenox Hill Hospital: $1,000 · HealthVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK: $500 · HealthAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $250 · HealthMuseum of Modern Art: $360 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $250 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS INC: $250 · International
Philanthropy$171,830Other$168,271Health$2,750Arts & Culture$610International$250

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 budgetTHE RITA & SHELDON KWIAT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $161,963 over 1y, 79% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $9,867 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $4,934 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLenox Hill Hospital: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $250 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.

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.

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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 Roisen Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Roisen Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s 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 · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Roisen Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Roisen Family Foundation Inc 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 16 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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