· Private foundation
The Stephen Birnbaum 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE METRO MUSEUM OF ART | $1,500 |
| WEILL CORNEL MED COLLEGE | $530 |
| THE WRITING REVOLUTION | $500 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVATORY | $500 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $500 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $400 |
| THIRTEEN-WNET | $400 |
| THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY | $300 |
| AMERICAN MUSEAUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $115 |
| NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $85 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC2× · 2017–2018 · $26k · revenue +4%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART5× · 2017–2021 · $10k · revenue +58%
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC6× · 2018–2023 · $3k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- TLTHE LEUKENIA SOCIETY OF AMERICAone grant, 2020 · $3k
- TNTHE NY ACADEMY OF SCIENCESone grant, 2019 · $500
- AAAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF THE OLD VICone grant, 2022 · $500
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.
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.
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.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
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.
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…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.
Enhance Columbia University's education mission by acquiring and publishing outstanding original works by scholars and others that contribute to an understanding of global human concerns. Columbia University Press became part of the…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WRITING REVOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds BOTTOMLESS CLOSET ↗
- Who funds THE SYMPHONY SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LE KORSA INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Stephen Birnbaum Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stephen Birnbaum Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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