· Private foundation
The Susan Stein Shiva Foundation Fka the Susan S Shiva Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $478k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PUBLIC THEATER | $400,000 |
| VASSAR COLLEGE | $220,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHET EILON | $58,000 |
| THE GLORIA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE FILM COLLABORATIVE | $50,000 |
| WOMEN IN FILM & VIDEO | $50,000 |
| AMERICANS FOR THE ISRAELI THIRD WAY | $50,000 |
| WOMEN'S MEDIA CENTER | $25,000 |
| STORYLINE INC | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| THE BRONX DEFENDERS | $5,250 |
| SNACK & FRIENDS INC | $5,181 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARENTS CIRCLE | $5,150 |
| BARBARA D SHERMAN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 62 since wound down; 16 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $282k 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
- NYNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL5× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +29%
- VCVASSAR COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +43%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHET EILON INC5× · 2020–2024 · $296k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- APAUBIN PICTURES INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -8%
- SNSHED NYC INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -46%
- ANARS NOVA THEATER I INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -19%
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 mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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…
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.
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 institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.
Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jigsaw Educational Productions Inc. 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 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
111 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. 111 of the 156 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 NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHET EILON INC ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds THE GLORIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC ↗
- Who funds AUBIN PICTURES INC ↗
- Who funds SHED NYC INC ↗
- Who funds ARS NOVA THEATER I INC ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Ross School Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR THE ISRAELI THIRD WAYINC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN FILM & VIDEO INC ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Carnegie Hall Society Inc ↗
- Who funds STORYLINE INC ↗
- Who funds FILM FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT FOR AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SNACK & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ford Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Arison Arts Foundation · Blavatnik Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Stein Shiva Foundation Fka the Susan S Shiva 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% 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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