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Anna & Nathan Flax Foundation Inc at a glance

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Anna & Nathan Flax 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.

$152k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$227kArts & Culture$162kReligion$155kInternational$151kHuman Services$135kFood & Nutrition$105kEnvironment$52kHealth$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $135k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HENDERSON COUNTY & THERMAL BELT HAB$25,000
HOUSING ASSITANCE CORPORATION WNC$25,000
SAFELIGHT$25,000
HENDERSONVILLE THEATRE$25,000
MANNA FOODBANK$15,000
THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND$10,000
FEMALE HEBREW BENEVOLENT SOCIETY$10,000
TYRON ARTS & CRAFTS SCHOOL$5,000
OSHER MARIN JCC$5,000
MONTFORD PARK PLAYERS$3,000
THE REPRESENTATION PROJECT$2,500
ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA ASSOCIATION$550
HENDERSON COUNTY GENEAOLOGICAL & HI$500
PPFA PLANNED PARENTHOOD$250
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, $154k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OSHER MARIN JCC: $30k → 8%OSHER MARIN JCC: $29k → 8%OSHER MARIN JCC: $25k → 8%OSHER MARIN JCC: $25k → 8%OSHER MARIN JCC: $10k → 8%OSHER MARIN JCC: $9k → 8%OSHER MARIN JCC: $7k → 8%OSHER MARIN JCC: $5k → 8%OSHER MARIN JCC: $5k → 8%OSHER MARIN JCC: $5k → 8%OSHER MARIN JCC: $5k → 8%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

WA
MN
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
MD
NC
SC
DC
OK
MS
AL
TX
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 48 repeat orgs$204k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
33

Total granted

$1.1M
$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+5%

Still filing today

52%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k 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
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalEnvironmentHealthHuman 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

  • BO
    BERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $154k · revenue +3%
  • MA
    MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger
    8× · 2017–2024 · $82k · revenue +50%
  • THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +132%

Funded once

  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +63%
  • OM
    ONE MIND
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • TL
    TIBURON LANDMARK SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
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 Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
3
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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4
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
8
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
9
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
10
Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture
11
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
12
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Physicians for Human Rights Inc; the most unlike its peers is Palmetto Curling Club. 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 89 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
27/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $82,000 · OtherMAZON A Jewish Response to HungerTUFT UNIVERSITY ALUMNI: $75,000 · OtherTUFT UNIVERSITY ALUMNIFEMALE HEBREW BENEVOLENT SOCIETY: $72,500 · OtherFEMALE HEBREW BENEVOLENT SOCIETYRANDOLPH COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $55,000 · OtherRANDOLPH COMMUNITY COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherGW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL ALUMNI: $32,500 · OtherHENDERSONVILLE THEATRE: $30,500 · OtherNEW YORK PUBLUC LIBRARY -JEWISH DIV: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · Other+63 more: $435,530 · Other+63 moreBERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $154,100 · Human ServicesBERNARD OSHER…+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC: $65,000 · InternationalTHE GOOD PE…HIAS INC: $39,000 · InternationalHIAS INCHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $31,500 · InternationalHAND IN HAN…+1 more: $2,500 · InternationalNATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILMINC: $22,500 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $15,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $12,500 · Arts & CultureTHE BRONX FREEDOM FUND INC: $7,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $4,000 · Arts & CultureEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $28,500 · Civil RightsThe Representation Project: $9,750 · Civil RightsSAFELIGHT INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $20,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$878,030Human Services$159,100International$138,000Arts & Culture$61,500Civil Rights$38,250Philanthropy$25,000Housing & Shelter$20,000

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 budgetBERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $154,100 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $82,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC: $65,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetHIAS INC: $39,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $31,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHENDERSONVILLE THEATRE: $30,500 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $28,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC: $25,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSAFELIGHT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILMINC: $22,500 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $12,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMONTFORD PARK PLAYERS: $10,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetThe Representation Project: $9,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPALMETTO CURLING CLUB: $7,500 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetHAZON INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRONX FREEDOM FUND INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOLDOVA WORLD CHILDRENS FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PLUMPJACK FOUNDATION: $3,300 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetConserving Carolina: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNext Generation Scholars Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJODI HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING BEATS INCORPORATED: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOUNTAIN PLAY ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES MOVING FORWARD: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN ACADEMY: $1,430 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALDSBURG JAZZ FESTIVAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIF GIVEN A CHANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDiscover Your Northwest: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA ASSOCIATIONINC: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $500 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.

  • Who funds BERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
  • Who funds THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds HIAS INC ↗
  • Who funds HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA ↗
  • Who funds HENDERSONVILLE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFELIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILMINC ↗
  • Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MONTFORD PARK PLAYERS ↗
  • Who funds The Representation Project ↗
  • Who funds PALMETTO CURLING CLUB ↗

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.

Marin Community Found…Swig FoundationLeonard & Beryl Buck …Community Foundation …North Carolina Commun…Foundation for the Ca…Jewish Communal FundBaird Foundation IncGe Aerospace Foundati…Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…
Marin Community FoundationCA13.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Swig Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Jewish Communal Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment 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 Anna & Nathan Flax Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anna & Nathan Flax Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • National Center for Jewish Filminc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report 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 89 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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