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The Steven M Feldman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$136k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$280kEducation$55kReligion$35kEnvironment$31kPhilanthropy$27kHealth$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kEmployment$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $116k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$42,500
STUDIO MUSEUM OF HARLEM$35,000
METROPOLITAN MUSUEUM OF ART$26,000
SILVER ARTS PROJECTS$12,200
FUND FOR SYRACUSE$5,000
OFFICE OF DISASTER PREPAREDNES S EMERGENCY-DONATION (RELIEF)$5,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
UNITED WAY$3,000
THE HARVEY B GANTT CENTER FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTSCULTURE$1,000
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 (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ETHAN AND THE BEAN: $1k → 12%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
PA
NJ
VA
MD
NC
OK
LA

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$374k · 12 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
18

Total granted

$374k
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+3%

Still filing today

58%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthFood & NutritionEmploymentEnvironmentOther

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

  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    3× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +161%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2019–2025 · $72k · revenue +76%
  • TS
    THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM
    4× · 2022–2025 · $65k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • LS
    LAUDATO SI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
  • JD
    JOHN DEWEY ACADEMY
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • RS
    RIVERVIEW SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +3%

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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
3
Museum of the City of New York

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…

Arts & Culture
4
The Royal National Theatre

Theatre can lead to extraordinary moments of shared imagination. it enables us to stand in anothers shoes to better understand ourselves and the world around us. it shows us who we are, who we have been, who we could be. the nt delivers on…

Arts & Culture
5
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
6
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
7
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
8
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
9
Berggruen Institute
Education
10
The National Museum of Women in the Arts

The mission of the national museum of women in the arts is to collect, conserve and elevate the achievements of women artists from all nationalities and to educate the public on their outstanding accomplishments. we strive to accomplish…

11
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
12
Mint Museum of Art Inc

The mint museum welcomes all to be inspired and transformed through the power of art and creativity.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Modern Art and the most unlike its peers is Compassion Cafe a Nj Nonprofit Corporation. 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 backsteadyCommunity Arts OrganizationsFood Pantries & AssistanceDevelopmental Disabilities …Education Equity LeadershipIndependent K-8 SchoolsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Land Conservation Organizat…
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 50 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%17%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%8%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%42%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%61%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 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/25
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,735

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

25 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. 25 of the 36 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
17/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $83,244 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $71,640 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM — $64,500 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEMSILVER ART PROJECTS INC — $24,400 · Arts & CultureSILVER ART PROJECTS INC+5 more — $7,700 · Arts & CultureLAUDATO SI FOUNDATION — $35,000 · OtherLAUDATO SI FOUNDATIONJOHN DEWEY ACADEMY — $25,000 · OtherJOHN DEWEY ACADEMYAPOLLO THEATRE — $23,500 · OtherAPOLLO THEATREIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFUND FOR SYRACUSE — $20,000 · OtherFUND FOR SYRACUSEUNITED WAY — $6,550 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERA — $5,500 · Other+8 more — $16,000 · Other+8 moreNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $30,000 · EnvironmentRIVERVIEW SCHOOL INC — $10,000 · EducationThe New School — $10,000 · EducationPREP FOR PREP — $5,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $5,000 · EducationCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $15,000 · HealthMADISON HOUSE AUTISM FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · Health+1 more — $500 · HealthCOMPASSION CAFE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $1,000 · EmploymentNO LIMITS CAFE — $1,000 · EmploymentCITY HARVEST INC — $1,000 · Food & NutritionREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC — $250 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$251,484Other$151,550Environment$30,000Education$30,000Health$17,500Employment$2,000Food & Nutrition$1,250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $83,244 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $71,640 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM — $64,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSILVER ART PROJECTS INC — $24,400 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERVIEW SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New School — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPREP FOR PREP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON HOUSE AUTISM FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEUNESS TRACK CLUB INC — $1,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetETHAN & THE BEAN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOMPASSION CAFE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCreative Arts Workshops for Kids Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG AFRO-AMERICAN CULTURAL AND SERVICE CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNO LIMITS CAFE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $200 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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Steven M Feldman Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Riverview School Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Steven M Feldman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Steven M Feldman Family 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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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