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The Strauss Family Foundation at a glance

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The Strauss Family 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.

$40k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$221kAnimals$43kArts & Culture$33kRecreation & Sports$21kPhilanthropy$16kReligion$5kInternational$2kHuman Services$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$519k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUDDY PAWS RESCUE$25,000
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC$10,000
DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$4,200
INTERNATIONAL ROSE O'NEILL CLUB$500
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 (FY18–18, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 28%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BRONX WORKS: $500 → 28%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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$293k · 4 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +93% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

$293k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+93%

Still filing today

100%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEducationInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    5× · 2017–2021 · $220k · revenue +94%
  • MP
    Muddy Paws Rescue
    3× · 2022–2024 · $43k · revenue +97%
  • TT
    TRANS-MISSISSIPPI TURF SCHOLARSHIP
    2× · 2019–2020 · $15k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CURRENT MEDIA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
  • CG
    COLORADO GOLF FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +171%
  • FP
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
Jefferson City Country Club

The jefferson city country club is a social club supported by its membership through initiation fees, assessments, and annual dues.

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2
Detroit Golf Club Caddie Scholarship Foundation
Education
3
Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health
4
Brookhaven Health Care Services Corp

The goals and objectives of the foundation are as follows:to support the mission and charitable purposes of nyulhs, nyu langone hospitals ("nyulh"), lich and the medical schools owned and operated by new york university (collectively, "nyu…

Health
5
Tisch Multiple Sclerosis Research Center of New York Inc

The purpose of tisch multiple sclerosis research center of ny, inc. is to conduct medical research directed toward finding the cause and eventual cure for multiple sclerosis.

Health
6
Golf Course Superintendents Association of America

Gcsaa is dedicated to serving its members, advancing their profession and improving communities through the enjoyment, growth and vitality of the game of golf.

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7
The Thirty Six East Sixty Second Street Foundation Inc

The purposes of the foundation are to maintain, restore and preserve the architectural integrity and design of the historically and architecturally significant building known as "the links club," situated at thirty-six east sixty-second…

Arts & Culture
8
Golf Association of Philadelphia Foundation
Recreation & Sports
9
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
10
Rocky Mountain Section Pga Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
12
Denver Scholarship Foundation

Denver scholarship foundation (dsf) inspires and empowers denver public schools (dps) students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources for…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marion Downs Center; the most unlike its peers is Trans-Mississippi Turf Scholarship. 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

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 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Eisenhower Medical Center: $220,000 · HealthEisenhower Medical CenterMuddy Paws Rescue: $42,500 · PhilanthropyMuddy Paws RescueDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,700 · PhilanthropyDESERT COMMUNITY F…JEWISH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH ENDOWMENT F…THE CURRENT MEDIA FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherAOC COMMUNITY MEDIA INC: $5,000 · OtherTRANS MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherMARION DOWNS CENTER: $1,000 · Other+3 more: $1,010 · OtherTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBONNIEBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTRANS-MISSISSIPPI TURF SCHOLARSHIP: $15,000 · EducationCOLORADO GOLF FOUNDATION: $5,250 · Recreation & SportsACCESSIBILITY ACCELERATOR INC: $1,000 · InternationalBRONXWORKS INC: $500 · Human Services
Health$220,000Philanthropy$56,200Other$22,510Arts & Culture$20,000Education$15,000Recreation & Sports$5,250International$1,000Human Services$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $220,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMuddy Paws Rescue: $42,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTRANS-MISSISSIPPI TURF SCHOLARSHIP: $15,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO GOLF FOUNDATION: $5,250 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBONNIEBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetACCESSIBILITY ACCELERATOR INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARION DOWNS CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRONXWORKS INC: $500 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Strauss Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Strauss Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 19 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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