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Timothy and Michele Barakett Foundation at a glance

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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.

$8.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$41MFood & Nutrition$8.2MRecreation & Sports$4.8MHealth$4.1MArts & Culture$2.9MPhilanthropy$2.6MScience & Tech$2.0MCrime & Legal$1.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $185k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $800k
  • $250k+11 grants · $7.8M
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
LAWRENCE CATHOLIC ACADEMY$250,000
HARVARD COLLEGE$250,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$250,000
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$150,000
HARVARD COLLEGE$100,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION$100,000
THE SHED$100,000
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%SOCIAL FINANCE: $100k → 16%SOCIAL FINANCE: $50k → 16%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $25k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $15k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $15k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $10k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $10k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $10k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $10k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $10k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $9k → 17%ANSWER THE CALL: $15k → 17%NY POLICE & FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND: $10k → 17%BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION: $15k → 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

WA
NY
MA
OH
RI
CA
AZ
DC
GA
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$66M · 43 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
29

Total granted

$66M
$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+36%

Still filing today

77%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $365k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • RF
    RETHINK FOOD NYC INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $8.1M · revenue +55%
  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +36%
  • DS
    DALTON SCHOOLS INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -4%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $675k · revenue +167%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
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 School of Interior Design

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…

Education
2
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
3
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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4
Move(Nyc) Foundation Inc

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…

Public Benefit
5
Manhattanville University

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

Education
6
Manhattan School of Music

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
9
Arthur Miller Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
10
New York Studio 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)

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11
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
12
Studio in a School Association Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Professional Childrens School Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
44/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARVARD COLLEGE: $41,658,932 · OtherHARVARD COLLEGE+38 more: $6,415,190 · Other+38 moreRETHINK FOOD NYC INC: $8,100,000 · Food & NutritionRETHINK FOOD …DALTON SCHOOLS INC: $1,675,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,394,350 · EducationEDUCATIONSUPERHIGHWAY: $700,000 · EducationOPEN UP RESOURCES: $300,000 · EducationTeachers College Columbia University: $250,000 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $250,000 · EducationPREP FOR PREP: $205,000 · Education+8 more: $323,672 · EducationPROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC: $1,236,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $850,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $680,940 · Arts & CultureALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $448,615 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $386,411 · Arts & CultureROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $2,300,000 · PhilanthropyVFILES FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $675,000 · InternationalTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $700,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER NY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Community Improvement
Other$48,074,122Food & Nutrition$8,100,000Education$5,098,022Arts & Culture$3,601,966Philanthropy$2,400,000International$1,675,000Community Improvement$900,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRETHINK FOOD NYC INC: $8,100,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $2,300,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $1,675,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,394,350 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC: $1,236,000 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $850,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetEDUCATIONSUPERHIGHWAY: $700,000 over 4y, 51% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $700,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $680,940 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $675,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $600,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART: $595,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $448,615 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetThe Bridge Golf Foundation: $350,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetOPEN UP RESOURCES: $300,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $205,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER NY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetA BETTER BALANCE INC: $175,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc: $170,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetPollyanna Inc: $155,172 over 3y, 57% of budgetSocial Finance Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $113,920 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetSHED NYC INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVFILES FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetCENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION: $100,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNew York University: $62,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHRIVE SCHOLARS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $49,411 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM: $46,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDEVELOPMENTS IN LITERACY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNAVIGATE THE MAZE TO ACHIEVEMENT INC: $21,520 over 2y, 30% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLULU & LEO FUND: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGALLIM DANCE COMPANY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $10,000 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.

  • 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 EDUCATIONSUPERHIGHWAY ↗
  • Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
  • 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 Teachers College Columbia University ↗
  • Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
  • 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 Social Finance Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BOTTOMLESS CLOSET ↗
  • Who funds SHED NYC INC ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds VFILES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗

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 FundThe Ford FoundationAmerican Express Foun…Robin Hood FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…The Warburg Pincus Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Hyde and Watson F…FjcGates Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY20.9× affinity9 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 · 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

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 Timothy and Michele Barakett Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Timothy and Michele Barakett Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Social Finance Inc: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 77 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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