The Grunbaum Fischer Foundation Inc C/o Timothy M Reif

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
921286234
IRS 990-PF coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-PF 2025
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
2122262800
Rating
62
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$58,750
Expenses
$60,370

Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Overview

Mission

Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.

What it reported funding in 2025

The foundation reported 2 filed grant rows totaling $30,000. The stated grant purposes included the foundation provides awards to support talented performing artists and students in the performing arts as set forth above. it also has the authority to provide awards to other non profits which serve to train and/or support these young artists. and the grant was to support the museum in its programming for diverse audiences, including youth which aligns with the foundation's mission statement to support the education and performing or visual arts endeavors of individuals from disadvantaged and underserved communities and backgrounds..

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from contributions.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 63% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of spending goes to grants and assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants.

Rating breakdown

  • Grant Deployment: 100
  • Cost Efficiency: 50
  • Transparency: NotEnoughData
  • Compliance: 98
  • Endowment Health: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Grant Deployment

  • Grant deployment ratio: 100%; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Cost Efficiency

  • Grant expense ratio: 49.7%; rating input score 50; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency

  • Grant recipient disclosure: Limited

Compliance

  • Foundation activity disclosures: 18 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 95
    • Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
    • Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
    • Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
    • Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
    • Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
    • Payment to a government official: Pass
    • Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
    • Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
    • Excess business holdings: Pass
    • Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
    • Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
    • Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
    • Attempt to influence an election: Pass
    • Individual grants for travel, study or similar purposes: Fail
    • Grants outside qualifying charitable organization categories: Pass
    • Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
    • Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
    • Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
    • Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
  • Filing consistency checks: 9; rating input score 100

Endowment Health

  • Endowment-health comparison: 0.01; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Grants: Filed grants detail
  • Payout: At least 100% grant deployment rate
  • Trustees: Filed trustees detail
  • Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
  • Investments: 20th percentile for endowment coverage
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Cost Efficiency: Grant expense ratio scored 50/100.
  • High — Endowment Health: Endowment-health comparison scored 20/100.
  • Review — Compliance: Foundation activity disclosures: Individual grants for travel, study or similar purposes not reported.