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Abauman Family Foundation at a glance

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Abauman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12k
Granted FY2022
11
Grants FY2022
8
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

66% of Abauman Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Abauman Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $12k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’17
9
’18
6
’19
9
’20
11
’21
8
’22
2
’23
4
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$250kPublic Benefit$40kEducation$25kHealth$18kFood & Nutrition$14kCrime & Legal$10kCivil Rights$7kYouth Development$6kOther$0
02FY2022 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$84k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$1,500
NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER$1,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$1,500
ABRAHAMSON SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$1,000
SAAFON$1,000
FAMILY PLACE$1,000
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA$1,000
GREENWOOD CULTURAL CENTER$1,000
THE RESILIENCY COLLABORATIVE$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
FATHER TO FATHER$500
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 (FY17–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $2k → 12%FAMILY PLACE: $1k → 14%GREENWOOD CULTURAL CENTER: $1k → 15%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $2k → 12%FAMILY PLACE: $1k → 14%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $2k → 12%FAMILY PLACE: $1k → 14%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $1k → 12%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $1k → 12%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $1k → 12%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

NY
MA
OR
CA
KY
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
MS
AL
GA
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$122k · 17 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2022, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
11

Total granted

$122k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+113%

Still filing today

71%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
HealthCivil RightsEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • Solidaire Network Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +240%
  • NS
    NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $8k · revenue +44%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $8k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • AI
    ADARMAN INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • TE
    The Exchange Clubs Child Abuse Prevention Center
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -10%
  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +121%
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
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
2
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
3
Center for Participatory Change

Igniting collective power. Transforming systems of oppression. Healing in community.

Community Improvement
4
Action Institute Nc

Action institute nc is a community organization and citizens action group that organizes residents of low-wealth communities and constituencies most of whom are people of color- to represent their own interests on issues of social and…

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5
Family Connects International

Family connects international is committed to strengthening bonds for families of newborns and linking them directly to supportive community care resources.

Health
6
Ywca of the Lower Cape Fear Inc

Dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Human Services
7
Equity Before Birth

Save the lives of Black mothers and their infants. Improve health outcomes by increasing access to critical services and support.

Human Services
8
North Carolina Black Alliance Inc

The North Carolina Black Alliance (NCBA) works toward state-level systemic change by strengthening the network of elected officials representing communities of color throughout the state and collaborating with progressive, grassroots…

Education
9
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
10
Womens Resource Center of Greensboro Inc

To promote the self-reliance of women by assessing needs, providing services, and acting as a gateway to community resources; to seek solutions for unmet needs by providing strategic leadership through collaboration and partnerships within…

Human Services
11
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
12
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arise Collective Inc; the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising. 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 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $200,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation IncSolidaire Network Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropySolidaire Network IncCAROLINA FEDERATION: $40,000 · Civil RightsCAROLINA FEDER…EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $6,500 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE …+1 more: $1,500 · Civil RightsUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY…ABRAHAMSON SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $4,000 · OtherABRAHAMSON…ADARMAN INSTITUTE: $2,000 · OtherADARMAN IN…Individual grant recipient: $1,500 · OtherSOUTHERN RURAL BLACK WOMEN - CHILDRENS DEFENSE FUND: $1,500 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,000 · OtherSOUTHERN P…ARISE COLLECTIVE INC: $2,000 · OtherARISE COLL…COOL CULTURE INC: $4,000 · OtherCOOL CULTU…RESOURCE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND MINISTRY IN THE SOUTH INC: $2,500 · OtherRESOURCE C…+9 more: $7,500 · Other+9 moreACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY: $8,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $7,500 · HealthKentucky Health Justice Network Inc: $1,000 · HealthBlack Mamas Matter Alliance Inc: $1,000 · HealthChattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences PTO: $10,000 · EducationTHE RESILIENCY COLLABORATIVE INC: $6,000 · EducationBLUE RIDGE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 · EducationNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesThe Family Place: $3,000 · Human ServicesGREENWOOD CULTURAL CENTER INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $5,500 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$250,000Civil Rights$48,000Other$37,000Health$17,500Education$17,000Human Services$11,500Food & Nutrition$5,500

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 budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCAROLINA FEDERATION: $40,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetChattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences PTO: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESILIENCY COLLABORATIVE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOOL CULTURE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Family Place: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRESOURCE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND MINISTRY IN THE SOUTH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARISE COLLECTIVE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMothers and Their Children Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Exchange Clubs Child Abuse Prevention Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE RIDGE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKentucky Health Justice Network Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFATHER TO FATHER INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIGENOUS WOMEN RISING INDIGEOUS WOMEN RISING: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Triangle Community Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Abauman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abauman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Northampton Survival Center Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Abauman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Abauman Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 34 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home