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Ucat Foundation Inc

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.

$245k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$338kArts & Culture$182kCivil Rights$178kFood & Nutrition$87kEnvironment$75kAnimals$56kEmployment$50kRecreation & Sports$47kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $182k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$45,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$35,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$25,000
CITY HARVEST$15,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$12,000
GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT$10,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$10,000
COOL CULTURE$10,000
WNYC$10,000
WNET$10,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$8,000
BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE$7,000
FEEDING AMERICA$5,000
WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION$5,000
FORTUNE SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT$5,000
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 (FY18–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $10k → 20%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $10k → 20%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $10k → 20%BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE: $7k → 17%BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE: $7k → 17%BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE: $3k → 17%BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE: $3k → 17%BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE: $3k → 17%BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE: $3k → 17%BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE: $1k → 17%BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE: $1k → 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

IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
OH
CA
UT
VA
MD
NC
DC
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$993k · 32 repeat orgs$113k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
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Total granted

$993k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+39%

Still filing today

94%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureAnimalsHealthCivil RightsEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $180k · revenue +43%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $155k · revenue +49%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    5× · 2018–2025 · $103k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • JD
    JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIOgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +55%
  • TP
    THE PENINSULA ART ACADEMY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +14%
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.

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Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
2
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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3
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
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
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
6
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
7
World Monuments Fund Inc

Wmf is the leading independent organization devoted to safeguarding the world's most treasured places to enrich people's lives and build mutual understanding across cultures and communities. the organization is headquartered in new york…

Arts & Culture
8
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
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
Food and Environment Reporting Network Inc

Fern seeks to make the food system more sustainable and equitable through powerful journalism and storytelling.

Food & Nutrition
11
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
12
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Parks Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Peninsula Art Academy. 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

50 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. 50 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
37/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $180,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION O…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $102,500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $25,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER O…+1 more: $2,500 · HealthAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $155,010 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBE…Take Back The Court Foundation: $18,500 · Civil RightsTake Back The Court…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $15,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEA…+1 more: $1,250 · Civil RightsCOOL CULTURE INC: $71,500 · Arts & CultureCOOL CULTURE IN…THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION: $21,750 · Arts & CultureTHE CULTURAL LA…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10,146 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MU…WNET: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWNETNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC…+10 more: $26,866 · Arts & Culture+10 moreCITY HARVEST INC: $68,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $19,000 · Food & NutritionWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $38,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $34,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $2,500 · EnvironmentGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC: $30,000 · Human ServicesBOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC: $26,500 · Human ServicesFOOTSTEPS INC: $16,400 · Human ServicesBIDEAWEE INC: $21,000 · AnimalsWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION: $20,500 · AnimalsAMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,000 · Animals+3 more: $1,700 · AnimalsMDRC: $50,000 · OtherMDRCJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherJUVENILE DIABETES …BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $6,000 · OtherCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $37,000 · OtherCENTRAL PARK CONSE…CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $9,900 · OtherCITY PARKS FOUNDAT…JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $8,333 · OtherBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $7,000 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $10,500 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN …+15 more: $26,150 · Other+15 more
Health$310,000Civil Rights$189,760Arts & Culture$150,262Food & Nutrition$87,000Environment$75,000Human Services$72,900Animals$50,200Other$179,883

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 budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $180,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $155,010 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $102,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOOL CULTURE INC: $71,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $68,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $38,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $37,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $34,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC: $26,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION: $21,750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBIDEAWEE INC: $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION: $20,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $19,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTake Back The Court Foundation: $18,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC: $16,400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10,146 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $9,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $8,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $7,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLANDMARK WEST INC: $5,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PENINSULA ART ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $3,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $2,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $1,378 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDERS ALLIANCE FUND INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $1,238 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL HAVEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE LEAGUE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $200 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 New York Communit…The Hyde and Watson F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Ayco Charitable F…The Chicago Community…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…
The New York Community TrustNY16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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 Ucat Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ucat Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    6report 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ucat Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Ucat Foundation Inc 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 61 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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