How much does The Viniar Family Foundation give?

The Viniar Family Foundation reported 87 grants totaling $2,918,325 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 78 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does The Viniar Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Education (16%), Health (12%).

Who are The Viniar Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Friends of the High Line Inc ($3.9M), Garden of Dreams Foundation ($1.9M), Pony Power Therapies Inc ($1.7M).

Does The Viniar Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Viniar Family Foundation 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 Viniar Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Ann Jackson Family Foundation.

Where is The Viniar Family Foundation based?

The Viniar Family Foundation is based in NY.

The Viniar Family Foundation

The Viniar Family Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$2.9M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$588k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$4.8MEducation$2.8MHealth$2.2MYouth Development$1.9MRecreation & Sports$165kReligion$88kHuman Services$64kPhilanthropy$58kOther$0

02FY2025 · 87 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k62 grants · $174k
$10k–50k18 grants · $277k
$50k–250k2 grants · $130k
$250k+5 grants · $2.3M

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$25,000
THE HAMLIN SCHOOL	$25,000
HUDSON RIVER PARK FRIENDS	$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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$11M · 77 repeat orgs$305k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

77 repeat relationships: 71 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$11M

$252k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%

+11%

Still filing today

74%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

GO
GARDEN OF DREAMS FOUNDATION
5× · 2021–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +608%
PP
PONY POWER THERAPIES INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +19% · 31% of their budget
NY
NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
4× · 2022–2025 · $461k · revenue +2%

Funded once

LC
LA County Museum of Arts
one grant, 2022 · $30k
FO
FRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +9%
PT
Public Theatre
one grant, 2021 · $25k

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.

04Its field

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.

New York University

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.

Education

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

New York Botanical Garden

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…

Environment

New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

Museum of the City of New York

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…

Arts & Culture

The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

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…

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New York Hall of Science

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…

Arts & Culture

Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

University of New Haven

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…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

100 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. 100 of the 149 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

100/100

Grantees still filing

67/100

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$4,702,625Other$2,608,926Philanthropy$1,948,000Human Services$1,769,500Education$1,166,750Health$168,120Recreation & Sports$118,500

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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY26.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Viniar Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Viniar Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home