· Private foundation
The Steven W and Ruth Katz Family Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of THE STEVEN W AND RUTH KATZ FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ | $25,000 |
| MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CHABAD AT SHORT HILLS | $14,742 |
| USC SHOAH FOUNDATION | $5,400 |
| PREP FOR PREP | $5,000 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| MILLBURN SHORT HILLS VOLUNTEER FIRST AID SQUAD | $3,000 |
| THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| RILEYS DANCE NJ SHARING NETWORK | $2,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $2,300 |
| SOLOMAN SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF BERGEN COUNTY | $1,800 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $1,500 |
| SOCIETY FOR PROTECTION OF NATURE IN ISRAEL | $1,000 |
| MARK SCHONWETTER HOLOCAUST EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
34 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AJABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +53%
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2024 · $34k · revenue +29%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc3× · 2018–2024 · $9k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- LTLife Town Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +30%
- HFHORSES FOR LIFE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k
- FCFRIENSHIP CIRCLEone grant, 2017 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj and the most unlike its peers is Hollywood Golf Club Foundation. 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
42 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 87 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ ↗
- Who funds SAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Life Town Inc ↗
- Who funds MILLBURN SHORT HILLS VOLUNTEER FIRST AID SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Paper Mill Playhouse ↗
- Who funds PLAY FOR PINK INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF BERGEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CURE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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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 W and Ruth Katz Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Axelrod Performing Arts Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Opportunity Project Inc — 6% of income from government
- Pillar Care Continuum — 1% of income from government
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.
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