· Private foundation
The Susan Isabel 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $197k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE | $250,000 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY | $100,000 |
| THE PEW TRUSTS | $75,000 |
| NEW YORK EAR & EYE INFIRMARY | $25,000 |
| RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| THE SOCIETY OF PAPER MONEY COLLECTORS | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,403 |
| WILDLIFE SOS | $10,000 |
| THE PUBLIC THEATRE | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET | $10,000 |
| HIGGINS MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHET EILON | $10,000 |
| GERMAN-AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| NUMISMATIC CRIME INFORMATION CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
30 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
- TSTHE SPENCE SCHOOL7× · 2017–2023 · $510k · revenue +12%
- NDNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE7× · 2017–2024 · $173k · revenue +45%
- RTRESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $104k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- MSMT SINAI HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $50k
- OBOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +17%
- PCPROFESSIONAL CURRENCY DEALERS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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.
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…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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.
Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)
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.…
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…
*increase and diffusion of knowledge* is the mission set forth by james smithson. the smithsonian endeavors to shape the future by preserving our heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world.
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Society of Paper Money Collectors I Nc. 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 61 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 39 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 THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds GERMAN-AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF PAPER MONEY COLLECTORS I NC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHET EILON INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NUMISMATIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK EYE & EAR INFIRMARY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE SOS ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds LITTLE HILL FOUNDATION FOR THE REHABILITATION OF ALCOHOLICS 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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Susan Isabel 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.