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.
No public data foundThe return states a posture but gives no instructions.
Application policy: Funds preselected organizations only, as stated on the FY2021 return.
What its returns show
Stated the same way on all 6 Form 990-PF returns on record (FY2016 to FY2021).
Education
3 grants on file · $1.4M · FY2016–2017
IRS 990 · FY2024
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
Grants paid
$0
FY2024 · grants and similar amounts paid
Total assets
$1.2M
FY2024 · end of year
Revenue
$1.2M
FY2024
Expenses
$984K
FY2024
Grants paid by year
Total assets by year
Where the money went · FY2024
Program services85%
Management and general11%
Fundraising4%
Form 990 splits expenses into program services, management and fundraising. The split is self-reported, and a grantmaker, a research institute and a direct-service nonprofit book the same work differently. A line the return does not carry reads "not available"; it is never counted as zero.
Year
Form
Revenue
Expenses
Grants paid
Assets
Net assets
FY2024
990
$1,160,237
$983,647
$0
$1,172,809
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
Arts and culture$6,000 · 1
Where recipients are
Paris$1.4M · 2
NY$6,000 · 1
Based on the 33% 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
3 on file
Recipient
Purpose
Amount
Year
Source
Bibiliotheque Sans FrontieresParis, Paris
Support the Ideas Box, a portable library made available to communities in disaster areas.
$738,000
2017
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.
Officers and directors
Name
Title
Hours / week
Compensation
Nina Safane
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
40.00
$124,855
Patrick Weil
CHAIR
5.00
$0
Peter Sahlins
DEPUTY CHAIR
5.00
$0
Yves Istel
DEPUTY CHAIR
From the officer list on the latest e-filed return. Compensation is as reported there; a blank means the return carries no figure.
$1,096,926
FY2023
990
$1,670,837
$926,932
$0
$1,004,325
$920,336
FY2022
990
$680,279
$1,105,876
$0
$226,756
$176,431
FY2021amended
990
$1,422,769
$1,184,054
$0
$806,580
$601,846
FY2021
990-PF
$1,255,339
$1,142,456
$1,142,456
$312,829
$293,425
FY2020
990-PF
$797,837
$835,548
$747,612
$183,639
$180,542
FY2019
990-PF
$621,597
$506,491
$506,491
$218,629
$218,253
FY2018
990-PF
$393,832
$366,097
$366,097
$109,221
$103,147
FY2017
990-PF
$930,843
$1,019,167
$943,036
$82,710
$75,412
FY2016
990-PF
$1,406,648
$818,297
$804,877
$663,736
$663,736
Bibiliotheque Sans FrontieresParis, Paris
Support the Ideas Box, a portable library made available to communities in disaster areas.