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The Vogel Family Foundation at a glance

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The Vogel 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.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$241kHealth$162kArts & Culture$51kEducation$20kCommunity Improvement$20kPhilanthropy$15kHuman Services$6kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$20,000
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE$17,500
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC$3,780
KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$3,644
NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY$2,000
ARMORY CENTER$1,444
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION$1,000
THE JEWISH MUSEUM$287
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART$145
02The need
03

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 (FY17–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WESTPORT WESTON FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 9%FAMILY LEGAL CARE: $250 → 20%BLUE CARD INC: $250 → 17%BLUE CARD INC: $250 → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $425 → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $400 → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $400 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

VT
WA
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
UT
MO
VA
DE
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$474k · 19 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
37

Total granted

$474k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+28%

Still filing today

79%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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

  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    4× · 2021–2025 · $98k · revenue +22%
  • TM
    THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $56k · revenue +64%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • CO
    CENTER ON RURAL INNOVATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +167%
  • TV
    THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +45%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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.

1
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
2
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
3
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Manhattanville University

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

Education
6
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
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
10
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
11
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
12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. 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

40 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. 40 of the 59 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
29/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $236,965 · OtherCENTRAL SYNAGOGUEARMORY CENTER: $19,594 · OtherARMORY CENTER+31 more: $29,192 · Other+31 moreICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $98,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE …WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYHorace Mann School: $9,000 · EducationHorace Mann School+3 more: $2,000 · EducationTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $56,000 · HealthTHE MOUNT SI…National Kidney Foundation Inc: $2,500 · Health+2 more: $550 · HealthTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $9,980 · Arts & CultureRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $3,644 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $1,737 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,300 · Arts & CultureTHE ARMORY ART CENTER INC: $1,100 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $1,790 · Arts & CultureCENTER ON RURAL INNOVATION INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $11,500 · PhilanthropyDELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyFoster Love Project: $634 · PhilanthropyNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 · Environment+1 more: $120 · Environment
Other$285,751Education$119,000Health$59,050Arts & Culture$31,051Community Improvement$20,000Philanthropy$13,134Environment$5,120

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $98,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $56,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER ON RURAL INNOVATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $9,980 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHorace Mann School: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC: $3,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $3,644 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPET PARTNERS: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $1,737 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $1,225 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARMORY ART CENTER INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rippowam Cisqua School Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGirls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTPORT/WESTON CT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoster Love Project: $634 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFUTURES AND OPTIONS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLUE CARD INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- NEW YORK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HONORABLE TINA BROZMAN FDTN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $290 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Triumph Fund Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundWeil Gotshal & Manges…Select Equity Group F…The Lazard Charitable…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY16.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Weil Gotshal & Manges Foundation Inc · Select Equity Group Foundation · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Center On Rural Innovation Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Delaware Community Foundation Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The Armory Art Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Vogel Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Vogel Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 59 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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