Funds preselected organizations onlyPhilanthropy and grantmaking181 grants on file · $4.8M · FY2016–2025IRS 990-PF · FY2025
Can I apply?
Funds preselected organizations only
The funder's latest Form 990-PF says it gives only to organizations it has already chosen and does not accept unsolicited requests. An introduction is usually the only route.
How to apply
Deadlines
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Not publishedNEW YORK, NY, 10019The filing names a person as the application contact. We publish role-based contacts (a committee, an office, a shared inbox) but not named individuals.a phone number for applications is on the filing. On the filing, not published; see “How to reach them” for any published channel.
Application policy: Funds preselected organizations only, as stated on the FY2025 return.
What its returns show
Stated the same way on all 9 Form 990-PF returns on record (FY2016 to FY2025).
These lines count this foundation's own Form 990-PF returns that the IRS has published as data. An amended return replaces its original. They describe past returns only.
Application guidance comes from the funder's own Form 990-PF, Part XV (the section where a private foundation says how to apply), shown as filed. It is the funder's words, not ours. These fields are free text and the IRS form cuts them short. Filers sometimes put whole sentences in the contact-name box. Shown exactly as filed.
Financials
Giving
$426K
FY2025 · qualifying distributions
Total assets
$5.8M
FY2025 · end of year
Revenue
$693K
FY2025
Expenses
$430K
FY2025
Giving by year
Total assets by year
Year
Form
Revenue
Expenses
Giving
Assets
Net assets
FY2025
990-PF
$693,256
$429,888
$425,938
$5,813,828
Figures are as reported on the e-filed return, with no restatement. Fiscal years are the funder's own tax year, labelled by the calendar year the period ends in. A blank line means the return does not carry that figure; a real zero shows as $0. When an amended return replaces an original, every figure here uses the amended return. The original is not shown. Giving is what the funder actually paid out toward its charitable purpose in the year (qualifying distributions on Form 990-PF, charitable disbursements otherwise). Assets are what it holds; giving is what moves.
What they fund
Recipient focus areas
Disease research$1.4M · 9
Medical research$449K · 10
Education$376K · 22
Philanthropy and grantmaking$317K · 10
Health care$60K · 2
Civil rights$15K · 2
Where recipients are
FL$2M · 42
NY$1.7M · 92
VA$333K · 6
CA$197K · 4
NJ$155K · 5
CT$122K · 9
GA$100K · 4
DC$67.5K · 4
Based on the 36% of grant rows we could match to an organization record. The rest stay as reported. The IRS assigns the NTEE category when it grants exemption. It often reflects the original filing, not today's giving.
Grants paid
181 on file
Recipient
Purpose
Amount
Year
Source
FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTERNEW YORK, NY
CHARITY
$50,000
2019
Recipients are shown as the funder wrote them on the return. A recipient with a link was matched to an organization record; the rest stay as reported and are never guessed. Some links come from other funders' returns: when three or more of them wrote the same name and state with one EIN, and the city on this row matches, we use that EIN. The name on this row is still shown as this funder wrote it.
Officers and directors
Name
Title
Hours / week
Compensation
Marvin R Shanken
DIRECTOR
1.00
$0
Steve Gordon
SECRETARY
1.00
$0
From the officer list on the latest e-filed return. Compensation is as reported there; a blank means the return carries no figure.
$5,813,828
FY2024
990-PF
$695,370
$630,704
$624,333
$5,550,460
$5,550,460
FY2023
990-PF
$418,267
$445,783
$444,500
$5,485,794
$5,485,794
FY2021
990-PF
$1,785,007
$440,097
$440,000
$3,743,582
$3,705,977
FY2020
990-PF
$416,508
$473,843
$472,000
$2,396,607
$2,361,067
FY2019
990-PF
$532,612
$705,519
$705,100
$2,504,942
$2,418,402
FY2018
990-PF
$320,114
$644,297
$636,500
$2,591,309
$2,591,309
FY2017
990-PF
$620,077
$634,667
$629,318
$2,920,492
$2,915,492
FY2016
990-PF
$424,789
$454,567
$441,325
$2,935,082
$2,930,082
CONQUER CANCERMatched to this organization because 3 grant-making charities wrote this name with its EIN. Source: Schedule I of their Form 990 returns, fiscal years 2020 to 2021. Counted Oct 9, 2026.
CONQUER CANCER THE ASCO FOUNDATIONMatched to this organization because 3 grant-making charities wrote this name with its EIN. Source: Schedule I of their Form 990 returns, fiscal years 2020 to 2022. Counted Oct 9, 2026.ALEXANDRIA, VA
DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTEMatched to this organization because 11 grant-making charities wrote this name with its EIN. Source: Schedule I of their Form 990 returns, fiscal years 2020 to 2025. Counted Oct 9, 2026.HOLLYWOOD, FL
CHARITY
$25,000
2023
THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUSWEST ORANGE, NJ
CHARITY
$25,000
2019
BLUE CHECK CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONNEW YORK, NY
CHARITY
$25,000
2024
DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATIONNEW YORK, NY