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Abrams Family Foundation Marlyon E Abrams

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$800k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.9MRecreation & Sports$2.0MHealth$595kCommunity Improvement$250kHuman Services$123kAnimals$110kYouth Development$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $288k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$35,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILLIAMSBURG LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT$800,000
Individual grant recipient$600,000
WILLIAMSBURG LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT$88,000
MAY WE HELP$50,000
DOLLY PARTON'S IMAGINATION LIBRARY$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
HEALTH SOURCE OF OHIO FOUNDATION$50,000
AYERS ACADEMY$35,000
JUVENILE DIABETESSO & CENTRAL OH$25,000
PETS FOR PATIENTS$25,000
KEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE$25,000
ATHLETES & CAUSES$25,000
JUNE IN OLDE WILLIAMSBURG COMMITTEE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
LEAGUE FOR ANIMAL WELFARE$10,000
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 (FY23–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%KEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE: $25k → 16%EMPOWER YOUTH: $25k → 9%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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 8 repeat orgs$4.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
14

Total granted

$2.7M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+9%

Still filing today

38%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $730k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • WL
    WILLIAMSBURG LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.1M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $166k
  • MW
    MAY WE HELP INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • WL
    WILLIAMSBURG LOCAL SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $2.8M
  • WT
    WILLIAMSBURG TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $127k
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
Pets Without Parents Columbus

To be a resource as a no-kill pet rescue service

Animals
2
Kind Keeper Inc

Our mission is to save the lives of homeless pets, promote kindness to animals, and advance the highest standards in animal welfare. Our goal is to create an environment in which all rescued animals are given or found a permanent loving…

Animals
3
Paws 4 the Cause Inc

Our mission is to help the homeless and injured animals of Kentucky through proper vet care and re-homing programs. We are also a strong advocate for spay and neuter within the region.

Public Benefit
4
CAUSE4PAWS Pet Food Bank

Many seniors and veterans share their only meal of the day with their companion animals. we deliver pet food for these precious animals so they can remain at home or with their person and not have to be surrendered to shelters.

Animals
5
Dogs Playing for Life Inc

Dogs playing for life is redefining the meaning and importance of quality of life for all sheltered dogs by improving their experience through playgroups and individualized training, resulting in urgent and responsible livesaving.

Animals
6
Advocates for Kids

Advocates for Kids is committed to providing service and/or supporting organizations that serve children by providing experiences that empower them to realize their full potential. Advocates for Kids envisions children achieving a clearer…

Youth Development
7
Love4Paws Inc

To protect and advocate for dogs in our community through repsonsible adoption, the donation of supplies and veterinary care to those in need, by assisting in the effort to limit the overpopulation of these animals, and by promoting…

Animals
8
Second Chance Pet Adoptions Inc

To champion homeless cats and dogs who are healthy or treatable in the quest to find their forever homes and engage with our community to provide responsible pet ownership reducing future generations of homeless animals.

Animals
9
Pet Angels Rescue Inc

The mission of Pet Angels Rescue is to save the lives of homeless animals by pulling pets from high-kill rural shelters, placing them into our no-kill rescue program, provide medical care and place into devoted homes.

Animals
10
Paws 4 Liberty Inc

Raising and training service dogs for disabled military vets.

Human Services
11
Advocates 4 Animals Feline Rescue and Rehabilitation Inc

To reduce the number of homeless animals in Greene County, Oh through various programs.

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12
Paws and Prayers Inc

None

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthsource of Ohio Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pets for Patients. 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

11 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. 11 of the 29 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WILLIAMSBURG LOCAL SCHOOLS: $2,750,000 · OtherWILLIAMSBURG LOCAL SCHOOLSWILLIAMSBURG LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT: $2,088,000 · OtherWILLIAMSBURG LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTIndividual grant recipient: $600,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWILLIAMSBURG TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES: $250,000 · Other+15 more: $897,904 · Other+15 moreSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationDolly Parton's Imagination Library: $100,000 · EducationPETS FOR PATIENTS: $75,000 · AnimalsFIGHTING CHANCE RESCUE: $25,000 · AnimalsLeague for Animal Welfare: $10,000 · AnimalsMAY WE HELP INC: $100,000 · HealthANGELS AND CAUSES INC: $75,000 · Recreation & SportsKEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE: $25,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWER YOUTH: $25,000 · Human ServicesBuilding Blocks Foundation: $25,000 · Philanthropy
Other$6,585,904Education$200,000Animals$110,000Health$100,000Recreation & Sports$75,000Human Services$50,000Philanthropy$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAY WE HELP INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDolly Parton's Imagination Library: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHealthsource of Ohio Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANGELS AND CAUSES INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPETS FOR PATIENTS: $75,000 over 3y, 56% of budgetKEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFIGHTING CHANCE RESCUE: $25,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetBuilding Blocks Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetEMPOWER YOUTH: $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetLeague for Animal Welfare: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 MAY WE HELP INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Dolly Parton's Imagination Library ↗
  • Who funds Healthsource of Ohio Inc ↗
  • Who funds ANGELS AND CAUSES INC ↗
  • Who funds PETS FOR PATIENTS ↗
  • Who funds KEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds FIGHTING CHANCE RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds Building Blocks Foundation ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWER YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds League for Animal Welfare ↗

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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC15.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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 Abrams Family Foundation Marlyon E Abrams funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abrams Family Foundation Marlyon E Abrams. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s 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 · 0–40%
    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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    Find your warmest path to Abrams Family Foundation Marlyon E Abrams 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 29 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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