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The Taffner Family Charitable Trust Trust - C/O Don L Taffner Jr Trustee

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.

$530k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$14M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations The Taffner Family Charitable Trust Trust - C/O Don L Taffner Jr Trustee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthArts & CultureEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$530k20%
FY20235$725k20%
FY20225$720k0%
FY20215$720k0%
FY20206$340k33%
FY20196$330k0%
FY20187$471k29%
FY20178$273kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.7MHealth$1.6MArts & Culture$617kAnimals$102kYouth Development$70kEnvironment$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St John's University New York$1,717,50080%
Northwell Health Foundation$1,200,00050%
Friends Of Bafta Us Inc$500,000589%
Lenox Hill Hospital$332,50030%
Wild Bird Fund Inc$101,50038%
Behind the Book Inc$70,00053%
Kangu Inc$50,000166%
Girl Be Heard Institute$2,50010%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($135k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Taffner Family Charitable Trust Trust - C/O Don L Taffner Jr Trustee supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt John's University New York: $1,717,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwell Health Foundation: $1,200,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFriends Of Bafta Us Inc: $500,000 over 5y, 89% of budgetLenox Hill Hospital: $332,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWild Bird Fund Inc: $101,500 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetBehind the Book Inc: $70,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetKangu Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetGirl Be Heard Institute: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About The Taffner Family Charitable Trust Trust - C/O Don L Taffner Jr Trustee

How much does The Taffner Family Charitable Trust Trust - C/O Don L Taffner Jr Trustee give?
The Taffner Family Charitable Trust Trust - C/O Don L Taffner Jr Trustee reported 5 grants totaling $530,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Taffner Family Charitable Trust Trust - C/O Don L Taffner Jr Trustee fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (42%), Health (39%), Arts & Culture (15%).
Who are The Taffner Family Charitable Trust Trust - C/O Don L Taffner Jr Trustee's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: St John's University New York ($1.7M), Northwell Health Foundation ($1.2M), Friends Of Bafta Us Inc ($500k).
Does The Taffner Family Charitable Trust Trust - C/O Don L Taffner Jr Trustee fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Taffner Family Charitable Trust Trust - C/O Don L Taffner Jr Trustee accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Taffner Family Charitable Trust Trust - C/O Don L Taffner Jr Trustee?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Taffner Family Charitable Trust Trust - C/O Don L Taffner Jr Trustee based?
The Taffner Family Charitable Trust Trust - C/O Don L Taffner Jr Trustee is based in NY.

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 14 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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