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Abby and Michael Modell Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Abby and Michael Modell Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$88kInternational$26kEducation$24kScience & Tech$11kEnvironment$3kHousing & Shelter$1kCommunity Improvement$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$327k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$30,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION$11,000
ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION$10,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$2,500
BELIEVE IN A CURE INC$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%INCLUDE NYC: $1k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%INCLUDE NYC: $1k → 17%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.
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$159k · 9 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
14

Total granted

$159k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+13%

Still filing today

67%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesScience & TechEnvironmentOther
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

  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $34k · revenue +9%
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    7× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +121%
  • GR
    GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • GI
    GLOBAL INSTITUTE LIU
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • SC
    SYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • TP
    THE PAP CORPS FOR CANCER RESEARCH
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
3
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
4
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
7
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
8
Riordan Clinic Inc

To provide medical research and education and to serve in ways that stimulates an epidemic of health among those interested in improving their well-being.

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9
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
10
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation
Philanthropy
11
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
12
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bottle Underground Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 24 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CCFA: $34,785 · OtherCCFAIndividual grant recipient: $32,698 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGLOBAL INSTITUTE LIU: $25,000 · OtherGLOBAL INSTITUTE LIUBRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE: $20,000 · OtherBRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCESYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $10,000 · OtherSYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTERTHE PAP CORPS FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $5,000 · Other+4 more: $2,403 · OtherCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $33,600 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INCMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $12,342 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENT…ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA IN…CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthCARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATIONBELIEVE IN A CURE INC: $3,500 · Health+2 more: $1,100 · HealthGORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES INC: $10,100 · Science & TechHEBREW COLLEGE: $2,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $1,000 · EducationNew York University: $1,000 · EducationRESOURCES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,045 · Human ServicesBottle Underground Inc: $2,500 · Environment
Other$129,886Health$70,542Science & Tech$10,100Education$4,000Human Services$3,045Environment$2,500

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 budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $33,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $12,342 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES INC: $10,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBELIEVE IN A CURE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBottle Underground Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESOURCES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,045 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Oxalosis & Hyperoxaluria Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHEMISTS' CLUB: $653 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Abby and Michael Modell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abby and Michael Modell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
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How do I get to Abby and Michael Modell Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Abby and Michael Modell 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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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