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Almeida Family Foundation at a glance

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Almeida 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.

$194k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$194k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$195kArts & Culture$178kHealth$90kReligion$15kInternational$11kEducation$4kEnvironment$2kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$194,251
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Endowment Foundation FBO The Almeida Family Charitable Fund$194,251
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 (FY21–21, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Brooklyn Community Services: $500 → 20%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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$296k · 12 repeat orgs$231k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
16

Total granted

$296k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+41%

Still filing today

83%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $194k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SV
    SAVE VENICE INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $59k · revenue +79%
  • MU
    MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $55k · revenue +133%
  • HC
    HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $33k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • GE
    GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • IA
    INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +95%
  • MU
    Medical University of South Carolina
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
The South Carolina Historical Society

The schs mission is to expand, preserve, and make accessible our invaluable collection, and to encourage interest and pride in the rich history of our state.

Arts & Culture
2
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
3
Chicago Historical Society

The Chicago History Museum strives to be a destination for learning, inspiration, and civic engagement. Through dynamic exhibitions, tours, programs, digital resources, and special events, the Museum connects people to Chicago's history…

Arts & Culture
4
The Charleston Museum

To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.

Arts & Culture
5
College of Charleston Foundation

The Mission of the College of Charleston Foundation is to promote programs of education, research, student development, and faculty development for the exclusive benefit of the College of Charleston.

Education
6
Chicago Collections Consortium Inc Nfp

Chicago collections consortium (ccc) is a collaboration among libraries, museums, and allied organizations working together to collect, preserve, and share freely,openly, and equitably the history and culture of chicago with the world.…

Arts & Culture
7
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
8
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…

Arts & Culture
9
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc

Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.

Education
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
12
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spoleto Festival Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. 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

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
20/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American Endowment Foundation FBO The Almeida Family Charitable Fund: $194,251 · OtherAmerican Endowment Foundation FBO The Almeida Family Charitable F…HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $32,500 · OtherHISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCharleston Library Society: $21,500 · OtherCharleston Library SocietyGRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $15,000 · Other+8 more: $10,600 · OtherMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $55,000 · HealthMEDICAL UNIVERSITY…Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $29,500 · HealthRehabilitation Ins…+1 more: $500 · HealthSAVE VENICE INC: $58,500 · InternationalSAVE VENICE IN…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $10,500 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FO…SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSPOLETO F…CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART: $6,500 · Arts & CultureCAROLINA …INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $6,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATI…Charleston Literary Festival Inc: $2,500 · Arts & CultureCharlesto…+3 more: $3,100 · Arts & Culture+3 moreTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $21,000 · EducationHIGH JUMP: $3,500 · EducationGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $100 · Food & NutritionBNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$303,851Health$85,000International$69,000Arts & Culture$43,100Education$24,500Food & Nutrition$1,100Philanthropy$1,000

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 budgetSAVE VENICE INC: $58,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $32,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $29,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCharleston Library Society: $21,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH JUMP: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCharleston Literary Festival Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FRANCAISEFRENCH HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Dancemakers Forum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Preservation Society of Charleston Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BUREAU OF COMMUNITY SERVICE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Coastal Community Fou…Gaylord and Dorothy D…The Clyde and Summer …The Chicago Community…John M Rivers Jr Foun…Guffey Family Foundat…Kirby Family Foundati…South Carolina Humani…Hillenbrand Family Fo…Lenhardt FoundationWf FoundationBessent-Freeman Famil…
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · The Clyde and Summer Anderson Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John M Rivers Jr Foundation · Guffey Family Foundation · Kirby Family Foundation Inc · South Carolina Humanities Council Inc · Hillenbrand Family Foundation · Lenhardt Foundation · Wf Foundation · Bessent-Freeman Family Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Almeida Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Almeida 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.

    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 30 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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