· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK EAR & EYE INFIRMARY | $25,000 |
| THE SOCIETY OF PAPER MONEY COLLECTORS | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,403 |
| NUMISMATIC CRIME INFORMATION CENTER | $10,000 |
| ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| GERMAN-AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| WILDLIFE SOS | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET | $10,000 |
| THE PUBLIC THEATRE | $10,000 |
| HIGGINS MUSEUM | $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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 39 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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Susan Isabel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Susan Isabel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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