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Victor & Monica Markowicz Charitable Trust at a glance

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Victor & Monica Markowicz Charitable Trust

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.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$179kArts & Culture$97kEducation$63kPhilanthropy$53kInternational$11kHuman Services$7kHousing & Shelter$3kPublic Benefit$550Other$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$343k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL$5,500
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH$1,000
COALITION FOR FAIRNESS IN SOHO AND NOHO$500
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM AND TELEVISION: $1k → 17%COMMUNITY ROOTS CHARTER COUNCIL: $300 → 20%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH BEACH: $15k → 11%FRIENDS OF WLRN INC: $100 → 15%BERGEN COUNTY UNITED WAY: $3k → 7%NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS: $70k → 17%COMMUNITY ROOTS CHARTER COUNCIL: $250 → 20%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH BEACH: $10k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF POLIN MUSEUM: $15k → 17%SCENARIOS USA: $500 → 20%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH BEACH: $10k → 11%NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS: $10k → 17%FRACTURED ATLAS: $1k → 20%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH: $5k → 11%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $3k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH: $5k → 11%LA ESCUELITA: $1k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH: $5k → 11%THE BROTHERHOOD SISTERSOL: $40k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH: $2k → 11%THE BROTHERHOOD SISTERSOL: $40k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH: $1k → 11%THE BROTHERHOOD SISTERSOL: $40k → 17%THE BROTHERHOOD SISTERSOL: $20k → 17%THE BROTHERHOOD SISTERSOL: $16k → 17%THE BROTHERHOOD SISTERSOL: $10k → 17%THE KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%THE BROTHERHOOD SISTERSOL: $6k → 17%THE KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL: $6k → 17%THE KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%THE BROTHERHOOD SISTERSOL: $1k → 17%COALITION FOR FAIRNESS IN SOHO AND NOHO: $500 → 17%MANHATTAN COUNTRY SCHOOL: $25k → 17%MANHATTAN COUNTRY SCHOOL: $15k → 17%MANHATTAN COUNTRY SCHOOL: $5k → 17%MANHATTAN COUNTRY SCHOOL: $5k → 17%MANHATTAN COUNTRY SCHOOL: $5k → 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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$381k · 7 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$381k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+17%

Still filing today

71%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $179k · revenue +34%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF POLIN MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $95k · revenue +34%
  • SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $6k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THE JAN KARSKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • WC
    WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF BERGEN COUNTY
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -23%
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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New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
2
Institute of Fine Arts Foundation

Supports the nyu institute of fine arts, a division of the nyu graduate school of arts and science; which is devoted to graduate teaching and research in the history of art and archeology and the conservation of works of art.

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3
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
4
New York Women's Foundation Inc

Creating a platform for women (cis, trans & non-binary) through anequitable and just future for women & girls, investing in women-led,innovative, and bold community-based solutions that promote theeconomic security, safety, and health of…

Human Services
5
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion
8
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
9
Jews for Racial & Economic Justice

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Community (JFREJ Community) is a 501c3 non-profit organization committed to building a vibrant Jewish left working for social justice in New York City. JFREJ Community grows the New York Jewish Left by…

Civil Rights
10
Open New York Education Inc

Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.

Housing & Shelter
11
New York Focus Inc

New york focus is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom covering state and local politics in the empire state.(continued on scheduleo)launched in october of 2020, new york focus aims to help make government more transparent by publishing…

Education
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Florida Public Media Group Inc; the most unlike its peers is La Escuelita 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

12 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. 12 of the 17 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $178,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF POLIN MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS INC: $95,200 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF POLIN …+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $55,000 · EducationMANHATTAN COUNT…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH BEACH: $35,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERA…THE JAN KARSKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherTHE JAN KARSK…WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $3,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL…UNITED WAY OF BERGEN COUNTY: $3,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF…+5 more: $2,650 · Other+5 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $18,000 · PhilanthropyTHE KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · InternationalSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $5,750 · Human Services
Youth Development$178,500Arts & Culture$96,200Education$56,000Other$48,650Philanthropy$18,000International$11,000Human Services$5,750

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $178,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF POLIN MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS INC: $95,200 over 3y, 12% of budgetMANHATTAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $5,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BERGEN COUNTY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA ESCUELITA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC: $100 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Victor & Monica Markowicz Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Victor & Monica Markowicz Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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

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    How do I get to Victor & Monica Markowicz Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Victor & Monica Markowicz Charitable Trust 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 17 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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