· Private foundation
The Viniar Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k62 grants · $174k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $277k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PONY POWER THERAPIES | $587,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC | $500,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| GARDEN OF DREAMS FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| UNION COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - WEINBERG FAMILY CEREBRAL PALSY CENTER | $75,000 |
| THE PUBLIC THEATER | $55,000 |
| LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART | $37,500 |
| THE HAMLIN SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| HUDSON RIVER PARK FRIENDS | $25,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA ZOO | $14,527 |
| HORACE MANN SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| THE YOUNG MENS AND YOUNG WOMENS HEBREW ASSOCIATION - THE 92ND STREET Y | $12,500 |
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 (FY23–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +17% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- GOGARDEN OF DREAMS FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +608%
- PPPONY POWER THERAPIES INC3× · 2023–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +19% · 31% of their budget
- NYNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL4× · 2022–2025 · $436k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- CUColumbia University - Weinberg Family Cerebral Palsy Centerone grant, 2022 · $50k
- LCLA County Museum of Artsone grant, 2022 · $30k
- PTPublic Theatreone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
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.
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…
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
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…
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aleph Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 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) — 1% 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.
100 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. 100 of the 154 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 FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
- Who funds GARDEN OF DREAMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PONY POWER THERAPIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE HAMLIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Horace Mann School ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds UBUNTU PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds HIRE HEROES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FIREFIGHTERS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds SEPSIS ALLIANCE 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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Manitou Fund · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Garland and Brenda Reiter Family 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 Viniar Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Flying Cloud Institute Inc — 6% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% 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.