· Private foundation
Y a Istel 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $149k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY INC | $44,827 |
| WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE | $28,000 |
| WHITE BIRD PRODUCTIONS INC | $25,000 |
| AMERICA PRESS INC | $15,363 |
| LIBRARIES WITHOUT BORDERS US | $15,000 |
| MYRIAD USA INC | $11,000 |
| REMARQUE INSTITUTE NYU | $10,000 |
| JACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION BARRINGTON | $6,218 |
| ALI FORNEY CENTER | $5,609 |
| FRENCH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ACTION AGAINST HUNGER | $5,000 |
| ACTORS CENTER INC | $3,273 |
| BUILDONORG | $2,586 |
| COMMON GOOD | $2,500 |
| PARIS REVIEW FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Y a Istel Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
53 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LWLIBRARIES WITHOUT BORDERS7× · 2019–2025 · $193k · revenue +87%
- TFThe French-American Foundation3× · 2020–2025 · $85k · revenue +150%
- CFCENTER FOR FINANCIAL STABILITY INC3× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +182%
Funded once
- WCWEILL CORNELL MED COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $80k
- AFAlbertine Foundationone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -18%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR ANIMAL CARE & EDUCATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
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…
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."
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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).
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.
Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
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…
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…
How this is measured
65 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. 65 of the 173 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC ↗
- Who funds LIBRARIES WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds WHITE BIRD PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The French-American Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FINANCIAL STABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Albertine Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ANIMAL CARE & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds LONGHOUSE RESERVE ↗
- Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
- Who funds THE PARIS REVIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SAG HARBOR PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds Citta Inc ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Daniel M Neidich & Brooke Garber Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Express Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Y a Istel Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Y a Istel Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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