· Private foundation
Timothy and Michele Barakett Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $800k
- $250k+11 grants · $7.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARVARD COLLEGE | $2,000,000 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE | $1,440,000 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE | $1,000,000 |
| RETHINK FOOD NYC INC | $750,000 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE | $500,000 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE | $500,000 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE | $500,000 |
| EDUCATION SUPER HIGHWAY | $400,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $250,000 |
| LAWRENCE CATHOLIC ACADEMY | $250,000 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $150,000 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| THE SHED | $100,000 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE | $100,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $309k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
43 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $365k 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
- RFRETHINK FOOD NYC INC5× · 2020–2024 · $8.1M · revenue +55%
- RHROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +36%
- DSDALTON SCHOOLS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +23%
Funded once
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -4%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $675k · revenue +167%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $500k
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.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
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 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…
Move|nyc| is a civic arts and social justice organization committed to cultivating a more diverse and inclusive society through transforming the field of professional dance. more than an arts organization, move|nyc| is a movement for…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
(see schedule o)
To honor the legacy of the great american playwright, arthur miller, and his new york city public school education, the arthur miller foundation (the "foundation") increases equitable access to quality theater education for public school…
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
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.
From classrooms to careers, studio in a school expands access to visual arts education and professions in the arts by partnering with practicing artists, schools, and cultural institutions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Professional Childrens School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vfiles 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 30 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 77 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 RETHINK FOOD NYC INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DALTON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONSUPERHIGHWAY ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART ↗
- Who funds ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Bridge Golf Foundation ↗
- Who funds OPEN UP RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds GREATER NY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A BETTER BALANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Amazon Watch Inc ↗
- Who funds Pollyanna Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Social Finance Inc ↗
- Who funds BOTTOMLESS CLOSET ↗
- Who funds SHED NYC INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION ↗
- Who funds VFILES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ford Foundation · American Express Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Warburg Pincus Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Fjc · Gates 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 Timothy and Michele Barakett 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.
- Social Finance Inc — 12% 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.