· Private foundation
The Stephen Muss Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALEXANDER MUSS HIGH SCHOOL IN ISREA | $1,000,000 |
| MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATI | $15,000 |
| LATIN SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER2× · 2017–2020 · $2.0M
- BWBRIGHAM & WOMANS HOSPITAL2× · 2017–2022 · $1.0M
- COCHABAD OF THE BERKSHIRES2× · 2018–2020 · $265k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $1.0M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $200k
- FOFRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +70%
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.
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How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 26 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 GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER MUSS INSTITUTE FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds LATIN SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC ↗
- Who funds HELPS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SPIRITUALITY FOR KIDS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIAMI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Stephen Muss Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stephen Muss Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- New World Symphony Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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