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Victor & Phyllis Grann Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Victor & Phyllis Grann Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$299k
Granted FY2019
30
Grants FY2019
8
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

82% of Victor & Phyllis Grann Family Foundation Inc’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Victor & Phyllis Grann Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $299k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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18
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15
’19
3
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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2020.

Education$484kArts & Culture$283kPhilanthropy$233kCommunity Improvement$50kHealth$32kRecreation & Sports$1kInternational$500Civil Rights$400Other$0
02FY2019 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k27 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $251k
$250
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REACH OUT AND READ$150,000
CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY$101,161
LITERACY INC$10,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$8,450
NY PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY$7,500
LINCOLN CENTER CHAIRMAN'S CIRCLE$6,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
CARNEGIE HALL SOCIETY$3,000
FRICK MUSEUM$2,500
YALE ALUMNI FUND$1,100
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF AMERICA$1,000
SUSAN G KOMEN FOUNDATION$500
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$360
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM OF ART$300
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATUAL HISTORY$250
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $100 → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $100 → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $100 → 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

WI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
TN
DC
LA
TX
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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$306k · 32 repeat orgs$547k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2019, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
20

Total granted

$306k
$328k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+43%

Still filing today

47%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalSocial ScienceHuman 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

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +58%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +227%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • REACH OUT AND READ INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue +77%
  • LI
    LITERACY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +43%
  • SB
    SAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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 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
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
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
4
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
5
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

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
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
8
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
9
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
10
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
11
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
12
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the most unlike its peers is Global Language Project 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

31 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. 31 of the 64 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)
28/31
Grantees still filing
24/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $201,161 · OtherCHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETYREACH OUT AND READ: $150,000 · OtherREACH OUT AND READLINCOLN CENTER CHAIRMAN'S CIRCLE: $18,000 · OtherNEW YORK PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY: $15,000 · Other+36 more: $58,449 · Other+36 moreREACH OUT AND READ INC: $300,000 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INCLITERACY INC: $20,000 · EducationLITERACY INC+4 more: $900 · EducationFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $232,858 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITAB…OSAGE NATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementOSAGE NATION FOUNDATIONMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $15,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,100 · Arts & CultureThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $800 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $740 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $1,172 · Arts & CultureALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $10,350 · Social ScienceSAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $3,100 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,000 · Health+2 more: $348 · HealthAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $300 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $200 · International
Other$442,610Education$320,900Community Improvement$282,858Arts & Culture$18,812Social Science$10,350Health$9,448International$500

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 budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $300,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $232,858 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOSAGE NATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Society Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $10,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $3,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $740 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC: $605 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $260 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $252 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL LANGUAGE PROJECT INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $198 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGolda Och Academy: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $75 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.

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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 & Phyllis Grann Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Victor & Phyllis Grann Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Golda Och Academy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report 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.

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 64 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home