· Private foundation
Abe Littenberg Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $534k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUNCH BREAK | $65,000 |
| PARKER FAMILY HEALTH CLINIC | $55,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $45,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY | $45,000 |
| AMERICARES | $40,000 |
| FULFILL MONMOUTH AND OCEAN FOOD BANK | $40,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $40,000 |
| COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER OF ROBERTSON COUNTY | $32,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $30,000 |
| HABCORE | $30,000 |
| SOLAR ENERGY INTERNATIONAL | $30,000 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $20,000 |
| UPPER VALLEY HAVEN | $20,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $362k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
LUNCH BREAK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $493k · revenue +251%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $290k · revenue +98%
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue -69%
- LBLUNCH BREAK LIFE SKILLS CENTERone grant, 2020 · $30k
- LSLIFE SKILLS CENTERone grant, 2021 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.
As the largest serving hunger-relief organization in the greater philadelphia region, share food program's mission is reducing regional food insecurity by providing nourishing food to a network of community-based partners and directly to…
We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.
To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties Inc D/B/a Fulfill and the most unlike its peers is Community Resource Center of Robertson County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LUNCH BREAK INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOLAR ENERGY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NO LIMITS CAFE ↗
- Who funds Ketcha Outdoors ↗
- Who funds Community Resource Center of Robertson County ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds HABCORE INC ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA CARES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL ↗
- Who funds UNITY HOUSE OF TROY INC ↗
- Who funds WEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WETLANDS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Abe Littenberg Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bethesda Cares Inc — 100% of income from government
- Habcore Inc — 50% of income from government
- Project Plase Inc — 39% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Covenant House New Jersey Inc — 34% of income from government
- Lunch Break Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Wetlands Institute — 2% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.