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The Rudin Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Rudin 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.

$50k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$50k
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 2022.

Arts & Culture$687kPhilanthropy$438kEducation$337kRecreation & Sports$255kReligion$174kHealth$125kHuman Services$103kEnvironment$83kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC$50,000
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 (FY17–18, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $20k → 6%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $18k → 6%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $5k → 20%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $5k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $2k → 17%JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $5k → 17%COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $5k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 62 repeat orgs$454k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 61 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
38

Total granted

$2.1M
$454k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+13%

Still filing today

95%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’21’22
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $360k · revenue +39%
  • WT
    WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
    3× · 2018–2022 · $150k · revenue +17%
  • NY
    NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FUNDS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • JC
    JEWISH CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE NEW YORK REGION
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
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 Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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2
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
3
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
4
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
5
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
6
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
7
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
8
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
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
12
The Diller-Quaile School of Music Inc

For more than a century, diller-quaile has offered an environment where music can flourish in all its aspects, enriching the lives of students of all ages and cultural backgrounds. the belief that music is a fundamental part of human life…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City; the most unlike its peers is Statement Arts 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

82 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. 82 of the 100 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/82
Grantees still filing
60/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC: $100,000 · OtherNEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INCCONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM: $65,000 · OtherCONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOMJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA: $60,000 · OtherJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICAVan Cortlandt Park Conservancy: $57,500 · OtherVan Cortlandt Park ConservancyFRIENDS OF ROOSEVELT PARK INC: $50,000 · OtherNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $44,375 · OtherTHE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY: $40,000 · OtherTHE DOE FUND INC: $40,000 · Other+42 more: $604,200 · Other+42 moreWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMI…YOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX IN…ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY …THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC: $48,500 · Arts & CultureTHE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INCMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $38,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $30,500 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+18 more: $222,550 · Arts & Culture+18 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $360,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH AP…ABNY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropyCHURCHILL SCHOOL AND CENTER: $85,000 · EducationCHURCHILL …MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE: $55,000 · EducationMARYMOUNT …BARD COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationBARD COLLE…University of Chicago: $20,000 · EducationUniversity…FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationFRANKLIN &…DALTON SCHOOLS INC: $20,000 · EducationDALTON SCH…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationWASHINGTON…+2 more: $10,000 · EducationBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $60,000 · HealthOUTREACH PROJECT INC: $27,804 · HealthLIVEONNY INC: $20,000 · HealthUNITED HOSPITAL FUND OF NEW YORK: $10,000 · HealthURBAN GREEN COUNCIL: $48,250 · EnvironmentNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT: $25,000 · EnvironmentFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $38,000 · Human ServicesTHE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $10,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $3,500 · Human Services
Other$1,061,075Arts & Culture$625,050Philanthropy$383,000Education$245,000Health$117,804Environment$83,250Human Services$66,500

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 budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $360,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHURCHILL SCHOOL AND CENTER: $85,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ROOSEVELT PARK INC: $50,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetTHE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC: $48,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN GREEN COUNCIL: $48,250 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $44,375 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $38,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $38,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $30,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOUTREACH PROJECT INC: $27,804 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCAN-HARBOR INC: $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetConcert Artists Guild Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVEONNY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE TIME INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART CREATES US INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetABNY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY FOUNDATION FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION INC D/B/A CSFORALL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SKYSCRAPER MUSEUM: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWEST SIDE COMMUNITY GARDEN: $20,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC: $19,150 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEHMAN COLLEGE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetONE HUNDRED BLACK MEN INC: $12,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBIG APPLE GREETER INC: $12,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTHEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTOWN HALL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

May and Samuel Rudin …The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Hyde and Watson F…The New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundThe Ford FoundationCharina Foundation In…The Barker Welfare Fo…The Howard Gilman Fou…The Shubert Foundatio…The Joelson FoundationLily Auchincloss Foun…
May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation IncNY34.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ford Foundation · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · The Barker Welfare Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Joelson Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 100 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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