How much does The Sgmg Foundation give?

The Sgmg Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $322,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Sgmg Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (61%), Health (12%), Religion (9%).

Who are The Sgmg Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ($208k), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($158k), Dog Tag Inc ($149k).

Does The Sgmg Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Sgmg Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Sgmg Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.

Where is The Sgmg Foundation based?

The Sgmg Foundation is based in NY.

The Sgmg Foundation

The Sgmg Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k16 grants · $77k
$10k–50k8 grants · $146k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
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
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC	$10,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC	$10,000
THE YOUNG MENS AND YOUNG WOMENS HEBREW ASSOCIATION	$10,000
RABBINICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA	$9,000
FLEMINGTON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER	$9,000
BELIEVE IN A CURE INC	$7,500
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC	$7,500
NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC	$5,000
THE YOUNG MENS AND YOUNG WOMENS HEBREW ASSOCIATION	$5,000

02The need

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.0M · 26 repeat orgs$670k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyReligionCivil RightsOther

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 69 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/39

Grantees still filing

27/39

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$1,285,924Other$993,460Philanthropy$167,320Employment$148,500Religion$79,500Civil Rights$68,500Community Improvement$50,000

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.

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.

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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, 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.

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By state

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