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The Sgmg 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.

$322k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$1.7MHealth$333kReligion$252kHuman Services$176kPhilanthropy$169kCivil Rights$94kArts & Culture$18kFood & Nutrition$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $146k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$7,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOG TAG INC$100,000
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$35,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC$27,500
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC$25,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$18,000
THE YOUNG MENS AND YOUNG WOMENS HEBREW ASSOCIATION$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$10,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC$10,000
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$10,000
RABBINICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA$9,000
FLEMINGTON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$9,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC$7,500
BELIEVE IN A CURE INC$7,500
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$5,000
NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMMONPOINT QUEENS: $180 → 13%LONG ISLAND CARES: $10k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NJ
RI
CA
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 26 repeat orgs$670k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +76% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
35

Total granted

$1.0M
$641k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+19%

Still filing today

54%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
HealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyReligionCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    8× · 2017–2024 · $208k · revenue +58%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $158k · revenue +39%
  • DT
    DOG TAG INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $149k · revenue +126%

Funded once

  • CU
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY-EFT (SECURITIES)FROM MS
    one grant, 2018 · $476k
  • BS
    BLUE STAR FAMILIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $28k · revenue +39%
  • AG
    AJC GLOBAL JEWISH ADVOCACY
    one grant, 2020 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
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
3
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
4
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
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
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
7
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
8
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
9
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
10
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
11
South Shore University Hospital

South 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
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harry Chapin Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community FederationsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionVeteran Support ServicesCommunity Health CentersCancer Support OrganizationsClassical Music EnsemblesFaith-Based Senior LivingCommunity Arts OrganizationsFood Pantries & AssistanceFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr19%3%20–35yr13%62%35–55yr16%26%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/45
the rest of the field
10%
11,857/120,715

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 69 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
27/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,056,264 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF N…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $207,860 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI+4 more — $21,800 · EducationCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY-EFT (SECURITIES)FROM MS — $476,356 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY-EFT (SECURITIES)FROM…COLUMBIA COLLEGE — $82,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA COLLEGERABBINICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA — $61,000 · OtherRABBINICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICAFLEMINGTON JEWISH CENTER — $38,500 · OtherCANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT FUND INC — $34,000 · Other+49 more — $301,604 · Other+49 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $158,020 · Philanthropy+2 more — $9,300 · PhilanthropyDOG TAG INC — $148,500 · EmploymentTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $78,000 · Religion+1 more — $1,500 · ReligionAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $61,000 · Civil RightsEngage Promoting Womens Economic Security — $7,500 · Civil RightsBROWN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · Community Improvement
Education$1,285,924Other$993,460Philanthropy$167,320Employment$148,500Religion$79,500Civil Rights$68,500Community Improvement$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,056,264 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $207,860 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $158,020 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDOG TAG INC — $148,500 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $78,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $61,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT FUND INC — $34,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC — $27,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $20,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND — $17,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBELIEVE IN A CURE INC — $14,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC — $13,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLong Island Cares Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRENCH-AMERICAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEngage Promoting Womens Economic Security — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CARES INC — $4,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT WOOD JOHNSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AT HAMILTON FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SYDNE JACOBY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDILLE CHICAGO NFP — $1,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $1,238 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHAKESPEARE THEATRE OF NEW JERSEY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORSELIFE HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONPOINT NY INC — $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFOLK COUNTY POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds DOG TAG INC
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT FUND INC
  • Who funds BLUE STAR FAMILIES INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds THE VALERIE FUND
  • Who funds BELIEVE IN A CURE INC
  • Who funds PLAY FOR PINK INC
  • Who funds Long Island Cares Inc
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FRENCH-AMERICAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Engage Promoting Womens Economic Security
  • Who funds HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC
  • Who funds Cornell University
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC
  • Who funds GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC
  • Who funds NEW YORK CARES INC
  • Who funds ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AT HAMILTON FOUNDATION INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundNY15.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Sgmg Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Grounds for Sculpture Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to The Sgmg Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sgmg Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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