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Abe Littenberg Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$817k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$1.2MHealth$879kInternational$816kHousing & Shelter$485kHuman Services$196kEnvironment$193kYouth Development$118kReligion$106kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $536k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $255k
$20,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARKER FAMILY HEALTH CLINIC$75,000
LUNCH BREAK$70,000
FULFILL MONMOUTH AND OCEAN FOOD BANK$55,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$55,000
AMERICARES FOUNDATION$40,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$40,000
UPPER VALLEY HAVEN$40,000
HABCORE$40,000
UTHSCA UROLOGY RESEARCH FUND$35,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF BCS$30,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$30,000
SOLAR ENERGY INTERNATIONAL$30,000
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$27,000
COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY$25,000
COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER OF ROBERTSON COUNTY$25,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $437k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $10k → 9%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER OF ROBERTSON COUNTY: $35k → 18%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $45k → 16%BETHESDA CARES: $15k → 8%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER OF ROBERTSON COUNTY: $32k → 18%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $25k → 16%BETHESDA CARES: $12k → 8%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER OF ROBERTSON COUNTY: $25k → 18%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $24k → 16%BETHESDA CARES: $10k → 8%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER OF ROBERTSON COUNTY: $25k → 18%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $20k → 16%BETHESDA CARES: $10k → 8%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $16k → 16%MID COUNTY UNITED MINISTRIES: $5k → 8%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $10k → 16%BETHESDA CARES: $5k → 8%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $5k → 16%DRIVEN TO CURE: $2k → 8%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $4k → 16%DRIVEN TO CURE: $1k → 8%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $4k → 16%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%THE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES: $15k → 6%THE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES: $12k → 6%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

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VT
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
AR
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 41 repeat orgs$204k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
12

Total granted

$4.9M
$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+1%

Still filing today

73%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
Human ServicesFood & NutritionInternationalEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • LUNCH BREAK INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $563k · revenue +251%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $330k · revenue +98%
  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue -69%
  • LB
    LUNCH BREAK LIFE SKILLS CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • LS
    LIFE SKILLS CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
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
Food Forward Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
2
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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3
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition
4
San Francisco Food Bank

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…

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5
City Harvest Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
6
Share Food Program

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…

Food & Nutrition
7
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

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.

Food & Nutrition
8
Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
9
Rise Against Hunger Inc

Rise against hunger, inc. is an international hunger relief non-profit organization that is driven by a vision of a world without hunger and a mission to end hunger in our lifetime. rise against hunger distributes food and other…

International
10
Feeding Westchester Inc

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.

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11
Extrafood

Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…

Food & Nutrition
12
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philabundance; 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.
04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 60 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
32/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UT HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER: $450,000 · OtherUT HEALTH MEDICAL CENTERPARKER FAMILY HEALTH CLINIC: $400,000 · OtherPARKER FAMILY HEALTH CLINICFAMILY PROMISE OF BCS: $265,000 · OtherFAMILY PROMISE OF BCSLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $177,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKFULFILL MONMOUTH AND OCEAN FOOD BANK: $175,000 · OtherFULFILL MONMOUTH AND OCEAN FOOD BANKHABCORE INC: $110,000 · OtherSAINT ANDREW EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $106,000 · OtherFULFILL MONMOUTH AND OCEAN: $100,000 · OtherUPPER VALLEY HAVEN: $85,000 · OtherKetcha Outdoors: $96,150 · Other+22 more: $440,768 · Other+22 moreLUNCH BREAK INC: $562,541 · Food & NutritionLUNCH BREAK INCCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $130,000 · Food & NutritionCHESTER COUNTY FOOD…Philabundance: $95,000 · Food & NutritionPhilabundanceFeeding America: $47,500 · Food & NutritionFeeding America+3 more: $35,000 · Food & NutritionMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $330,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FR…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $255,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUND…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $100,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KI…ALIGHT: $50,000 · InternationalALIGHT+2 more: $11,000 · InternationalCOVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC: $153,070 · Human ServicesCOVENANT …Community Resource Center of Robertson County: $117,000 · Human ServicesCommunity…THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOC…BETHESDA CARES INC: $52,000 · Human ServicesBETHESDA …THE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL: $27,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOODB…+4 more: $27,500 · Human Services+4 morePARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $280,000 · HealthUNITY HOUSE OF TROY INC: $40,000 · HealthSOLAR ENERGY INTERNATIONAL: $202,500 · EnvironmentCLIMATE RIDE INC: $9,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentNO LIMITS CAFE: $123,500 · Employment
Other$2,404,918Food & Nutrition$870,041International$746,000Human Services$436,570Health$320,000Environment$212,500Employment$123,500

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 budgetLUNCH BREAK INC: $562,541 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $330,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $280,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $255,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOLAR ENERGY INTERNATIONAL: $202,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $177,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC: $153,070 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $130,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNO LIMITS CAFE: $123,500 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetCommunity Resource Center of Robertson County: $117,000 over 4y, 87% of budgetHABCORE INC: $110,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKetcha Outdoors: $96,150 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetPhilabundance: $95,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER VALLEY HAVEN: $85,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBETHESDA CARES INC: $52,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetALIGHT: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $47,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITY HOUSE OF TROY INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL: $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD: $24,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WETLANDS INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPasadena Community Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $14,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT PLASE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLIMATE RIDE INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMID-COUNTY UNITED MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRIVEN TO CURE INC: $2,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CLIMATE REGISTRY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetH2O FOR LIFE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 Community Resource Center of Robertson County ↗
  • Who funds HABCORE INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Ketcha Outdoors ↗
  • Who funds Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds UPPER VALLEY HAVEN ↗
  • Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds BETHESDA CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds ALIGHT ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds UNITY HOUSE OF TROY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL ↗
  • Who funds WEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD ↗
  • Who funds THE WETLANDS INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Pasadena Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗

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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY12.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Abe Littenberg Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abe Littenberg Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 34%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 60 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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