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Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation Trust at a glance

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Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation Trust

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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$150k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$650kAnimals$205kInternational$205kEducation$165kFood & Nutrition$100kReligion$70kHuman Services$70k
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $235k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC$150,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$150,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$150,000
MERCY SHIPS$125,000
NORWALK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC$115,000
OPERATION SMILE INC$100,000
WESTPORT VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC$100,000
NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC$90,000
FEEDING AMERICA$75,000
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INC$75,000
WESTPORT ANIMAL SHELTER ADVOCATES$50,000
LOWN CARDIOVASCULAR GROUP INC$50,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$50,000
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC$50,000
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION$40,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MAASER FUND CORP: $10k → 6%JESPY HOUSE INC: $30k → 16%JESPY HOUSE: $15k → 16%JESPY HOUSE: $15k → 16%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
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
TN
DC
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 23 repeat orgs$330k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against -60% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
4

Total granted

$2.6M
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
-60%

Still filing today

78%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalAnimalsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $175k · revenue +59%
  • NH
    Norwalk Hospital Foundation
    2× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +1%
  • Mercy Ships International
    2× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK UNIVERSITY - LANGONE HEALTH
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • CB
    Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • NH
    NORWALK HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
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
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
2
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
3
Northern Westchester Hospital Association

Northern westchester hospital association is an affiliate within northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care;…

Health
4
Northwell Healthcare Inc

Northwell healthcare inc. coordinates policy making and strategic planning by providing advisory and administrative support services to affiliated health care organizations within northwell health; whose mission is to improve the health of…

Health
5
South Shore University Hospital

South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
6
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
7
Central Suffolk Hospital

Central suffolk hospital ("csh") d/b/a peconic bay medical center ("pbmc") is a not-for-profit hospital consisting of acute health care, a skilled nursing facility and a certified home care agency. csh provides a full range of health care…

Health
8
Northwell Inc

Northwell, inc. is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. northwell, inc. is organized and operated exclusively for the…

Health
9
Plainview Hospital

Plainview hospital is part of northwell health, inc ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
10
John T Mather Memorial Hospital

John t. mather memorial hospital ("mather") is a non-profit community hospital that is part of northwell health. mather strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical…

Health
11
Hospice Care Network

Our mission is to enable persons to live with peace and dignity in a caring environment during the final stages of life by offering care and comfort to both them and to those whom they share their lives.

Human Services
12
Staten Island University Hospital

Staten island university hospital is an affiliate within northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Actt Naturally 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

24 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. 24 of the 32 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTPORT VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $450,000 · HealthWESTPORT VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INCLOWN CARDIOVASCULAR GROUP INC: $195,000 · HealthLOWN CARDIOVASCULAR GROUP INCST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $175,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCNorwalk Hospital Foundation: $150,000 · HealthNorwalk Hospital FoundationNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $115,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INCDaughters of Israel Inc: $60,000 · HealthSt Vincent's Medical Center Foundation Inc: $55,000 · HealthNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $55,000 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $50,000 · Health+2 more: $65,000 · HealthWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $200,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHE…Mercy Ships International: $150,000 · InternationalMercy Ships Internat…OPERATION SMILE INC: $125,000 · InternationalOPERATION SMILE INCTHE MOONCATCHER PROJECT INC: $55,000 · InternationalTHE MOONCATCHER PROJ…TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW: $200,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF COLUMBI…NYU LANGONE: $70,000 · OtherNYU LANGONENEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN: $70,000 · OtherNEW YORK PRESBYTERI…JESPY HOUSE INC: $60,000 · OtherJESPY HOUSE INCNORTHWELL HEALTH INC: $54,000 · OtherNORTHWELL HEALTH IN…+5 more: $65,000 · Other+5 moreHumane World for Animals Inc: $100,000 · AnimalsWESTPORT ANIMAL SHELTER ADVOCATES: $75,000 · AnimalsACTT NATURALLY INC: $30,000 · AnimalsTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyFeeding America: $100,000 · Food & NutritionNew York University: $50,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $45,000 · Education
Health$1,370,000International$530,000Other$519,000Animals$205,000Philanthropy$150,000Food & Nutrition$100,000Education$95,000

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 budgetWESTPORT VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $450,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOWN CARDIOVASCULAR GROUP INC: $195,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNorwalk Hospital Foundation: $150,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMercy Ships International: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $115,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT ANIMAL SHELTER ADVOCATES: $75,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetJESPY HOUSE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDaughters of Israel Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSt Vincent's Medical Center Foundation Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MOONCATCHER PROJECT INC: $55,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT BARNABAS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetACTT NATURALLY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetOVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MAASER FUND CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% 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.

Ge Aerospace Foundati…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Ge Aerospace FoundationCT11.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Jespy House Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get 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 · 0–20%
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 32 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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