· Private foundation
Abrams 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
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+6 grants · $5.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT | $2,500,000 |
| PROPUBLICA | $1,300,000 |
| THE ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION | $750,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $505,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $500,000 |
| YEAR UP INC | $250,000 |
| THE 19TH NEWS | $200,000 |
| REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS | $200,000 |
| THE PUBLIC THEATER | $150,000 |
| SALT LICK INCUBATOR INC | $100,000 |
| JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER | $100,000 |
| PUBLIC ART FUND | $100,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| THE MARSHALL PROJECT | $50,000 |
| BRAVEN INCORPORATED | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $310k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Abrams Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 3 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
PRO PUBLICA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $9.0M · revenue +48%- AJAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC4× · 2020–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +236%
- BCBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC3× · 2017–2019 · $3.1M · revenue +18%
Funded once
- CUCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPAone grant, 2017 · $1.0M
THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INCone grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue -4%- SISMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION - NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICANone grant, 2023 · $500k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berklee College of Music Inc and the most unlike its peers is Strategic Grant Partners Inc. 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 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 57 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 PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS ↗
- Who funds THE 19TH NEWS ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office ↗
- Who funds BRAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ART FUND INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIC GRANT PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRELIGHT MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL B NEWS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · One8 Foundation · Barr Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Abrams 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.
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 0% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 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.
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