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The Sirovich Family Charitable Fdn at a glance

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The Sirovich Family Charitable Fdn

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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
63
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$210k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$5.4MHuman Services$680kHealth$669kRecreation & Sports$260kPhilanthropy$243kArts & Culture$159kReligion$147kInternational$77kOther$0
02FY2024 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $270k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUKE UNIVERSITY$210,000
SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES$200,000
BOWERY RESIDENTS' COMMITTEE$197,000
THE ARMORY FOUNDATION$90,000
WOMEN IN FILM & VIDEO$60,000
EXAM SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVE$50,000
FUND FOR THE CITY OF NY - SCHOLARSHIP PLUS$50,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$50,000
UNCOMMON SCHOOLS$50,000
UNIONDOCS INC$50,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$25,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$25,000
UMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL$25,000
SEA CHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS$25,000
J STREET EDUCATION FUND$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $672k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOWERY RESIDENTS' COMMITTEE: $250k → 17%BOWERY RESIDENTS' COMMITTEE: $197k → 17%BOWERY RESIDENTS' COMMITTEE: $125k → 17%BOWERY RESIDENTS' COMMITTEE: $75k → 17%JCC MANHATTAN: $5k → 17%YM & YWHA OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS & INWOOD: $10k → 17%YM & YWHA OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS & INWOOD: $5k → 17%YM & YWHA OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS & INWOOD: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
NC
DC
HI
GA
FL
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.4M · 50 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

50 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
39

Total granted

$5.4M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+27%

Still filing today

68%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $207k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $770k · revenue +3%
  • BR
    BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $647k · revenue +54%
  • EC
    ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $265k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • BU
    BROWN UNIVERSITY DIVISION OF ADVANCEMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $662k
  • DU
    DUKE UNIVERSITY IRON DUKES FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $275k
  • DA
    DIRECT AIR CAPTURE COALITION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -71%
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 Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
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
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
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
10
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

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

Health
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
Stony Brook Orthopedic 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uncommon Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. 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

72 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. 72 of the 112 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/72
Grantees still filing
51/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DAN MINDICH TEACHER PROJECT FUND VASSAR COLLEGE OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT: $750,000 · OtherTHE DAN MINDICH TEACHER PROJECT FUND VAS…BROWN UNIVERSITY DIVISION OF ADVANCEMENT: $661,724 · OtherBROWN UNIVERSITY DIVISION OF ADVANCEMENTDUKE UNIVERSITY IRON DUKES FUND: $275,100 · OtherDUKE UNIVERSITY IRON DUKES FUNDTHE ARMORY FOUNDATION: $203,500 · OtherTHE ARMORY FOUNDATIONFUND FOR THE CITY OF NY - SCHOLARSHIP PLUS: $135,000 · Other+71 more: $802,556 · Other+71 moreSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $800,000 · EducationSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INCDUKE UNIVERSITY: $770,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $265,000 · EducationETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOLTHE EXAM SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVE INC ATTN ANDY MCCORD: $260,000 · EducationTHE EXAM SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP INITIAT…THE NICHE CLINIC: $220,000 · EducationTHE NICHE CLINICUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $150,000 · EducationUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC+7 more: $34,565 · EducationBROWN UNIVERSITY: $966,359 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSIT…FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $150,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVEST…BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC: $647,000 · Human ServicesBOWERY RE…+2 more: $24,912 · Human ServicesCHARLEY'S FUND INC: $600,000 · Health+8 more: $16,520 · HealthSEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $18,000 · PhilanthropyAPPLESEED FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICA GIVES INC: $18,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $2,800 · PhilanthropyJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $70,000 · ReligionKBY Congregations Together Inc: $18,000 · Religion
Other$2,827,880Education$2,499,565Community Improvement$1,116,359Human Services$671,912Health$616,520Philanthropy$141,800Religion$88,000

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 budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $966,359 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $800,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $770,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC: $647,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHARLEY'S FUND INC: $600,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $265,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EXAM SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVE INC ATTN ANDY MCCORD: $260,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetTHE NICHE CLINIC: $220,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetTHE ARMORY FOUNDATION: $203,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN IN FILM & VIDEO INC: $60,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetDIRECT AIR CAPTURE COALITION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBANG ON A CAN: $40,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAdvocates for Children of New York: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Bronx United Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYOUNG MENS & YOUNG WOMENS HEBREW ASSO OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS AND INWOOD INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAPPLESEED FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKBY Congregations Together Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAZOM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTREETSQUASH INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA BROADER WAY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNEW YORK EDGE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDREAMSTREET THEATRE COMPANY INC: $6,800 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetNEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,295 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC: $5,010 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN EXCHANGE PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $4,912 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALTAIRE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $4,800 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $4,102 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,558 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CANCER COUCH FOUNDATION INC: $3,108 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,980 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $1,854 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The New York Communit…Robin Hood FoundationImpactassetsincAmerican Express Foun…Lambert Family Founda…The Howard Gilman Fou…The Ford FoundationPwc Foundation IncFjcCombined Jewish Phila…
Jewish Communal FundNY21.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Robin Hood Foundation · Impactassetsinc · American Express Foundation · Lambert Family Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Pwc Foundation Inc · Fjc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 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 Sirovich Family Charitable Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sirovich Family Charitable Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Girls Inc of the Valley: 30% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
10report 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Sirovich Family Charitable Fdn 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 112 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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