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Valerie & Charles Diker Fund Inc at a glance

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Valerie & Charles Diker Fund Inc

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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$470k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.1MEducation$1.1MInternational$948kScience & Tech$605kReligion$356kHealth$140kPhilanthropy$137kHuman Services$62kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $157k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $748k
  • $250k+2 grants · $870k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL$470,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$400,000
YALE UNIVERSITY HQ$200,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$171,650
CENTER FOR JEWISH COMMUNITY STUDIES$110,000
TAOS ART MUSEUM$83,000
SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION$65,000
NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM$65,000
NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NY$52,950
NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ART INSTITUTE$40,000
TWYLA THARP DANCE FOUNDATION$25,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$21,560
SMITH COLLEGE$15,000
JEWISH MUSEUM$15,000
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE$10,000
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 (FY20–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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%BEST FRIENDS: $25k → 10%BEST FRIENDS: $1k → 10%MOVING FOR LIFE: $6k → 17%ODYSSEY FOUNDATION OF NY INC: $5k → 17%METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $3k → 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

AK
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WA
WI
MI
NY
MA
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NJ
CT
CA
UT
MO
MD
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AR
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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.
$5.2M · 32 repeat orgs$677k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
47

Total granted

$5.2M
$375k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
+5%

Still filing today

66%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k 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
Arts & CultureEducationReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • SR
    SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +67%
  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    2× · 2023–2024 · $885k · revenue +31%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    4× · 2020–2024 · $455k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • CB
    CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $52k · revenue +46%
  • CA
    CAT ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue -90%
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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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
2
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
3
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
4
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
7
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
8
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
11
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
12
New York Academy of Art

The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Manursing Way & Island Beautification Association Inc. 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

61 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. 61 of the 94 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)
60/61
Grantees still filing
34/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $1,635,850 · Arts & CultureSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATIONMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $454,650 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureWNET: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+16 more: $262,900 · Arts & Culture+16 moreYALE UNIVERSITY: $599,123 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYYALE UNIVERSITY HQ: $200,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY HQNMSA: $110,000 · OtherNMSACRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM: $100,000 · OtherCRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUMTaos Art Museum: $100,000 · OtherTaos Art MuseumNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK: $89,768 · OtherNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE OF …NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: $66,666 · Other+44 more: $400,707 · Other+44 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $585,500 · EducationPresident and Fel…THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $302,330 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF T…NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE: $90,000 · EducationNEW MEXICO SCHOOL…+7 more: $38,000 · EducationCentral Fund of Israel: $885,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of…+1 more: $5,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR JEWISH COMMUNITY STUDIES: $210,000 · ReligionNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN: $40,000 · ReligionTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $22,500 · Religion+1 more: $2,500 · ReligionNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $75,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $51,648 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyBEST FRIENDS INC: $26,000 · Human ServicesMOVING FOR LIFE INC: $6,335 · Human ServicesODYSSEY FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK: $5,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $2,500 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$2,553,400Other$1,666,264Education$1,015,830International$890,000Religion$275,000Philanthropy$127,148Human Services$39,835

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 budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $1,635,850 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $885,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $585,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $454,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $302,330 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR JEWISH COMMUNITY STUDIES: $210,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWNET: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTaos Art Museum: $100,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE: $90,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $57,950 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $51,648 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN: $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCAT ASSOCIATION: $35,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INC: $31,750 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBEST FRIENDS INC: $26,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetTWYLA THARP DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $21,560 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC CENTER OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $14,650 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MANURSING WAY & ISLAND BEAUTIFICATION ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOVING FOR LIFE INC: $6,335 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $5,050 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBowdoin College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetODYSSEY FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOUTER COAST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEW MEXICO ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget1898 FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MISTY COPELAND FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR LADY OF THE DESERT INC INGLESIDE LODGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Jewish Communal FundArnhold Foundation IncThe Ford FoundationThe Chicago Community…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Endowment Fo…Fidelity Investments …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
Jewish Communal FundNY19.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Arnhold Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Valerie & Charles Diker Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Valerie & Charles Diker Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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How do I get to Valerie & Charles Diker Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Valerie & Charles Diker Fund 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 94 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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