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The Volpert 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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$318k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$3.0MHealth$920kPhilanthropy$373kFood & Nutrition$254kSocial Science$252kReligion$217kCommunity Improvement$93kArts & Culture$83kOther$0
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 54 grants below total $1,262,082 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,474,847 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $212,765 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k39 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $173k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $467k
  • $250k+2 grants · $568k
$1,555
Median grant
9
States reached
$566k
Total assets

Anchored by a single position — about 96% of reported assets are held in Victory Capital Holdings Inc.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NYU Langone Health$317,550
President And Fellows Of Harvard College$250,000
Rambam$177,828
City Meals On Wheels$139,000
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University$100,000
New York University$50,000
Harvard Business School Club of New York Inc$25,000
Trustees of Tufts College$25,000
Johns Hopkins University$25,000
The Deborah Project Inc$25,000
The Jewish Museum$20,000
UJA Federation of New York$18,000
Centre Cochin Ambulatoire D'Ophtalm Olo$15,000
The Bridge Golf Foundation$10,000
Central Synagogue$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 21%. 6% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 21%Tufts College: $486k → 16%Harvard University: $506k → 17%Riverdale County School: $218k → 28%SEE ATTACHED STATEMENT: $1.1M → 17%SEE ATTACHED STATEMENT: $409k → 17%SEE ATTACHED STATEMENT: $359k → 17%Park Ave Synagogue: $253k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 28 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
53

Total granted

$2.2M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+32%

Still filing today

75%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $619k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther

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

  • Trustees of Tufts College
    3× · 2021–2024 · $989k · revenue +17%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $370k · revenue +46%
  • RC
    RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $228k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • HU
    Harvard University
    one grant, 2022 · $506k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $398k · revenue -21%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $253k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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
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
3
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
4
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
5
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
6
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
7
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
8
Stony Brook Surgical Associates 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
Manhattanville University

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

Education
10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
11
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
12
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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 43 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr22%19%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr12%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr22%15%20–35yr12%13%35–55yr12%70%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/73
the rest of the field
12%
1,344/10,797

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.

04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 104 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/70
Grantees still filing
49/70
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Trustees of Tufts College — $988,652 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegePresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $647,875 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $243,750 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JU…RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $227,727 · EducationRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC+12 more — $159,305 · Education+12 moreHarvard University — $506,334 · OtherHarvard UniversityNYU Langone Health — $317,550 · OtherNYU Langone HealthIndividual grant recipient — $253,167 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPRESIDENT FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE 690 SHS GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. — $252,268 · OtherPRESIDENT FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE 690 …Rambam — $177,828 · OtherRambamHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CLUB OF NEW YORK 300 SHS GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. — $91,942 · OtherHARVARD LAW SCHOOL — $75,000 · Other+42 more — $301,284 · Other+42 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $370,033 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $8,305 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER — $397,875 · International+1 more — $1,100 · InternationalCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $214,300 · Food & NutritionTHE SYLVIA CENTER — $14,550 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $700 · Food & NutritionNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS — $50,000 · HealthTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL — $25,000 · HealthThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc — $10,000 · HealthNYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM — $7,000 · Health+11 more — $13,950 · HealthTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $61,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $3,500 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $3,975 · Arts & Culture
Education$2,267,309Other$1,975,373Philanthropy$403,338International$398,975Food & Nutrition$229,550Health$105,950Arts & Culture$73,475

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $988,652 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $647,875 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER — $397,875 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $370,033 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $243,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $227,727 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $214,300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $61,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CLUB OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $37,734 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE DEBORAH PROJECT INC — $28,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Bridge Golf Foundation — $18,250 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SYLVIA CENTER — $14,550 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEL AVIV MUSEUM'S AMERICAN FRIENDS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $3,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe School for Ethics and Global Leadership — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALPORT SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $1,821 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $1,555 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYCLADIC ART FOUNDATION CO FORVIS MAZARS LLP — $1,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE FOR ISRAEL INC — $1,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELLUMINATE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCOA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHORDOMA FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORTHLESS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQUAKER RIDGE EMPLOYEE CHARITY FUND — $700 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $630 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON FOOD PANTRY INC — $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The New York Communit…FjcNational Philanthropi…Combined Jewish Phila…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The David Berg Founda…Daniel L Nir & Jill E…Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Community Foun…Morgan Stanley Global…
Jewish Communal FundNY32.8× affinity21 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 · The New York Community Trust · Fjc · National Philanthropic Trust · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The David Berg Foundation Inc · Daniel L Nir & Jill E Braufman Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Volpert 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 104 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.5M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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