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Appaloosa Management Charitable 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.

$495k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$100k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Science & Tech$1.1MEducation$752kReligion$744kInternational$227kFood & Nutrition$225kArts & Culture$213kPhilanthropy$201kHealth$197kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $280k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$100,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$75,000
TEMPLE EMANUEL$27,500
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC$25,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NEWARK INC$25,000
THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO FOUNDATION$25,000
THE ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC$25,000
WESTCHESTER REFORM TEMPLE$22,500
GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC$20,000
MORGAN PRESSEL FOUNDATION INC$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - ST LOUIS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$20,000
JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC$20,000
STEPHY'S PLACE - A NEW LIFE SUPPORT CENTER FOR GRIEF AND LOSS$10,000
SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT TRUST$10,000
OPERATION PATRIOTS FOB INC$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CUMAC: $20k → 12%ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 17%OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $10k → 12%SUCCEED 2GETHER INC: $5k → 16%SUCCEED2GETHER INC: $4k → 16%SUCCEED2GETHER INC: $4k → 16%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

VT
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
MO
VA
AZ
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
$4.2M · 38 repeat orgs$733k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
38

Total granted

$4.2M
$538k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+31%

Still filing today

74%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • AC
    AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +135%
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $215k · revenue +23%
  • JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $208k · revenue +239%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THE JEWISH COMMUNITY PROJECT
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • AI
    AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $75k
  • CO
    CHABAD OF CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $32k
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
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Manhattanville University

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

Education
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
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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8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
10
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is Taylor Hooton Foundation for Fighting Steroid Abuse. 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

63 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. 63 of the 94 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
42/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EMORY JEWISH STUDENT CENTER INC: $537,800 · OtherEMORY JEWISH STUDENT CENTER INCIndividual grant recipient: $170,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $103,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY PROJECT: $100,000 · OtherCONGREGATION BNAI JESHURUN: $97,000 · OtherAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherST BARNABAS HOSPITAL: $75,000 · OtherCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $169,500 · OtherCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc+54 more: $846,122 · Other+54 moreAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $1,150,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE W…WOMENS CAMPAIGN INTERNATIONAL: $150,000 · InternationalWOMENS CAMPAIGN INTERNATIONA…+1 more: $2,170 · InternationalTRUSTEES OF UNION COLLEGE IN THE TOWN OF SCHENECTADY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK: $151,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF UNION…ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $150,000 · EducationETHICAL CULTURE F…President and Fellows of Middlebury College: $126,018 · EducationPresident and Fel…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $100,000 · EducationMassachusetts Ins…NEWARK ACADEMY: $100,000 · EducationNEWARK ACADEMYCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSIT…BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC: $30,000 · Education+8 more: $69,500 · Education+8 moreJAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC: $207,500 · Arts & CultureALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT TRUST: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $215,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $1,000 · Crime & LegalChicago Zoological Society: $100,000 · AnimalsTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $80,000 · AnimalsREAL DOG RESCUE INC: $21,621 · Animals+2 more: $3,500 · AnimalsHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NEWARK INC: $190,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,173,422International$1,302,170Education$776,518Arts & Culture$267,500Crime & Legal$216,000Animals$205,121Housing & Shelter$195,000

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 budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $1,150,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $215,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC: $207,500 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NEWARK INC: $190,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $169,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF UNION COLLEGE IN THE TOWN OF SCHENECTADY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK: $151,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS CAMPAIGN INTERNATIONAL: $150,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $126,018 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $103,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Zoological Society: $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWARK ACADEMY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST BARNABAS HOSPITAL: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHY'S PLACE - A NEW LIFE SUPPORT CENTER FOR GRIEF AND LOSS: $45,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $44,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $43,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHEA'S STAR OF HOPE: $28,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREAL DOG RESCUE INC: $21,621 over 1y, 12% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST LOUIS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetIronbound Community Corporation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMorgan Pressel Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCUMACECHO INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER: $19,222 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHARLIE LANDERS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSUCCEED2GETHER INC: $13,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetFriendship Circle New Jersey Inc: $10,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTAYLOR HOOTON FOUNDATION FOR FIGHTING STEROID ABUSE: $10,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrevor Day School: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION PATRIOTS FOB INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER AND BLOOD DISORDERS INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR RESIDENTIAL CARE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $5,000 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.

Community Foundation …Td Charitable Foundat…Columbia Bank Foundat…Jewish Communal FundJewish Community Foun…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Robert Wood Johns…The Tepper FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Pseg Foundation IncThe Hyde and Watson F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ20.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Td Charitable Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Tepper Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Appaloosa Management Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Appaloosa Management Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 29%
  • Ironbound Community Corporation: 100% of income from government
  • Jazz House Kids Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Cumacecho Inc: 25% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
14report 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.
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How do I get to Appaloosa Management Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Appaloosa Management Charitable Foundation Inc 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 94 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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