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Barbara and Sanford H Orkin Family 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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of BARBARA AND SANFORD H ORKIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION$1,000,000
MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA$410,000
Individual grant recipient$333,000
THE BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$50,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$50,000
AHAVATH ACHIM SYNAGOGUE$35,325
HIGH MUSEUM OF ART$15,000
JEWISH HOME LIFE COMMUNITIES$7,500
ATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY$5,500
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$5,000
THE BREMAN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM$5,000
HILLELS OF GEORGIA$1,800
ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK HUNGER WALK$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA: $420k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA: $410k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA: $400k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA: $35k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA: $10k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA: $10k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of Barbara and Sanford H Orkin Family 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. Read by recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 77% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Barbara and Sanford H Orkin Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 14% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.8M · 18 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
7

Total granted

$8.8M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+11%

Still filing today

56%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureCivil RightsHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterInternationalOther

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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2.9M · revenue +82%
  • HO
    Hillels of Georgia Inc
    2× · 2021–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +2% · 53% of their budget
  • MJ
    MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • PH
    Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -72%
  • JE
    JEWISH EDUCATION LOAN FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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
Gainesville Jewish Student Foundation Inc

The gainesville jewish student foundation, inc. (known as schilit hillel at uf) mission: schilit hillel at uf enriches the lives of jewish students, inspiring them to make an enduring commitment to jewish life, learning, and israel

3
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services
4
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

5
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

6
Atlanta Jewish Academy Inc

Atlanta jewish academy is a college preparatory, co-educational, preschool-12th grade, independent jewish day school, guided by modern orthodox values and principles. we embody the ideals of community, tradition, individual development and…

Education
7
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
8
Adolph & Rose Levis Jewish Community Center Inc

The mission of the adolph & rose levis jewish community center is to strengthen jewish continuity by offering compelling opportunities for physical, spiritual, educational, cultural and social enrichment. the levis jcc creates a…

Human Services
9
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
10
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
11
American Jewish University

American jewish university (aju) advances and elevates the jewish journey of individuals, organizations and our community through excellence in scholarship, teaching, engaged conversation, and outreach. aju is a thriving center of jewish…

Education
12
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Jewish Committee and the most unlike its peers is Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Hillels of Georgia Inc — $1,501,800 · OtherHillels of Georgia IncCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATIONAHAVATH ACHIM SYNAGOGUE — $938,775 · OtherAHAVATH ACHIM SYNAGOGUEIndividual grant recipient — $666,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAHAVATH ACHIM CONGREGATION — $650,000 · OtherAHAVATH ACHIM CONGREGATIONTHE EPSTEIN SCHOOL - ORKIN CHAI SCHLORSHIP — $400,000 · OtherTHE EPSTEIN SCHOOL - ORKIN CHAI SCHLORSHIP+14 more — $160,300 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION — $2,900,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUND…RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC — $150,000 · EducationMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC — $1,295,000 · Human ServicesMARCUS JEWISH…Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc — $1,000,000 · HealthPiedmont H…ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $105,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC — $10,800 · Arts & CultureANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $50,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $35,000 · Civil RightsBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · International
Other$5,316,875Education$3,050,000Human Services$1,295,000Health$1,000,000Arts & Culture$115,800Civil Rights$85,000International$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION — $2,900,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHillels of Georgia Inc — $1,501,800 over 2y, 53% of budgetMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC — $1,295,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetPiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc — $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $105,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Home Life Communities Inc — $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $14,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC — $10,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC — $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Hillels of Georgia Inc
  • Who funds MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC
  • Who funds Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc
  • Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC
  • Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
  • Who funds Jewish Home Life Communities Inc
  • Who funds SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC

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.

The Berman Charitable TrustGA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Berman Charitable Trust · The Allan & Melanie Nelkin Foundation Inc · Ron and Lisa Brill Charitable Trust · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Barbara and Sanford H Orkin Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Barbara and Sanford H Orkin Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Barbara and Sanford H Orkin Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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