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Abrahamson Family Foundation

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.

$167k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2024
21
Organizations funded FY2023
10%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
20 to 39
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$5.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Abrahamson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationInternationalEnvironmentPhilanthropyCrime & LegalHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving21$167k5%
FY202321$61k10%
FY202220$63k5%
FY202132$120k6%
FY202039$724k21%
FY201932$656k13%
FY201836$558k14%
FY201735$464kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$1.5MEducation$479kArts & Culture$197kEnvironment$162kFood & Nutrition$66kHuman Services$58kInternational$37kPhilanthropy$16kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
TN
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($486k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Abrahamson Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFresh Air Fund: $1,500,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetThe Writing Revolution Inc: $300,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetThe Adirondack Council Inc: $103,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetWilton Historical Society Inc: $76,400 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetAlvin Ailey Dance Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $53,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSacred Heart University Incorporated: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Christ in India Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetAbbott House: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFugees Family Inc: $23,700 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGiants Community Fund: $11,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMarvelwood School Inc: $5,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWilton Land Conservation Trust: $5,750 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGraham Windham: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMarin School of the Arts Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Corporation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOpus 118 Harlem School of Music: $3,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSan Francisco Food Bank: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Perlman Music Program Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Center for Family Philanthropy Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetElm City Montessori School Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBuildon Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRoom to Grow National Inc: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetProtect the Adirondacks Inc: $1,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTURN 2 U INC dba THE LAST MILE: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCircle of Care for Families of Children With Cancer Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Indian College Fund: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL12.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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Find your warmest path to Abrahamson 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.

About Abrahamson Family Foundation

How much does Abrahamson Family Foundation give?
Abrahamson Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $166,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 39 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Abrahamson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (54%), Education (17%), Arts & Culture (7%).
Who are Abrahamson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fresh Air Fund ($1.5M), The Writing Revolution Inc ($300k), The Adirondack Council Inc ($103k).
Does Abrahamson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Abrahamson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Abrahamson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Jewish Communal Fund, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is Abrahamson Family Foundation based?
Abrahamson Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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