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Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation

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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
122
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of BERNARD E & ALBA WITKIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’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.

02FY2025 · 122 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k99 grants · $1.7M
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $260k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN$110,000
ST VINCENT'S DAY HOME$75,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - GOLDMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY$75,000
BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN$45,000
BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES$45,000
BAY AREA HISPANO INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCEMENT$40,000
INTERNATIONAL CHILD RESOURCE INSTITUTE$40,000
YMCA OF THE EAST BAY$35,000
SOAR FOR YOUTH$27,500
EAST BAY AGENCY FOR CHILDREN$27,500
EAST BAY CHILDREN'S LAW OFFICES$27,500
BERKELEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FUND$25,000
ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION$25,000
MOUNT DIABLO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$25,000
CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION ON DEAFNESS$25,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COCO KIDS: $20k → 9%COCO KIDS: $15k → 9%MAKE IT HOME: $15k → 8%MAKE IT HOME: $15k → 8%ALAMEDA FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 10%ALAMEDA FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 10%ALAMEDA FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 10%A BETTER WAY: $15k → 10%WE CARE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 9%WE CARE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 9%WE CARE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 9%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $13k → 10%WE CARE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 9%WE CARE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 9%WE CARE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 9%WE CARE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 9%WE CARE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 9%WE CARE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 9%STEP ONE SCHOOL: $40k → 9%STEP ONE SCHOOL: $40k → 9%STEP ONE SCHOOL: $20k → 9%STEP ONE SCHOOL: $20k → 9%STEP ONE SCHOOL: $20k → 9%STEP ONE SCHOOL: $20k → 9%STEP ONE SCHOOL: $20k → 9%STEP ONE SCHOOL: $20k → 9%STEP ONE SCHOOL: $20k → 9%MARTINEZ EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $15k → 9%BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN: $82k → 10%BLUESKIES FOR CHILDREN: $75k → 10%BLUESKIES FOR CHILDREN: $75k → 10%BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN: $75k → 10%BLUESKIES FOR CHILDREN: $75k → 10%BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN: $45k → 10%BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN: $40k → 10%BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN: $40k → 10%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $25k → 10%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $25k → 10%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $25k → 10%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $25k → 10%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $25k → 10%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $25k → 10%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $20k → 10%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $20k → 10%A DIAMOND IN THE RUFF: $12k → 10%FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF THE BAY AREA: $20k → 10%FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF THE BAY AREA: $20k → 10%FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF THE BAY AREA: $15k → 10%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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$15M · 184 repeat orgs$390k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.

184 repeat relationships — 115 still active in FY2025, 69 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

184
27

Total granted

$15M
$325k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
-4%

Still filing today

70%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • LS
    LEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $950k · revenue +77%
  • SV
    ST VINCENTS DAY HOME
    8× · 2018–2025 · $650k · revenue +84%
  • BF
    BlueSkies for Children Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $507k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - UC BOTANNICAL GARDEN
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • DS
    DAVIS STREET FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - UC BERKELEY SCHOOL OF LAW
    one grant, 2020 · $25k

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
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
2
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
3
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

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4
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
5
California Alliance of Caregivers

California Alliance of Caregivers represents the voices of relative and non-relative caregivers to promote the well-being of children in foster care. California Alliance of Caregivers provides training information support and advocacy for…

Health
6
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
7
Oakland Kids First

The mission of Oakland Kids First is to increase youth voice, leadership and power to create engaging and equitable public schools where all students learn and lead.

Youth Development
8
Bay Area Community Services Housing Corp

Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.

Housing & Shelter
9
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area

To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

—
10
Casa of Solano County

Advocates for abused, neglected and other identified children within the court system, with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.

Civil Rights
11
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
12
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Monterey County Inc

CASA recruits, trains, and supports community volunteers who advocate for chidren and youth throughout their journey in foster care.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Area Community Resources Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Martin Luther King Jrfreedom Ctr. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%4%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr12%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%2%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr18%22%20–35yr13%43%35–55yr12%14%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/159
the rest of the field
13%
2,844/22,547

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.

04the grantee network

153 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. 153 of the 217 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)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
144/153
Grantees still filing
111/153
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST VINCENTS DAY HOME — $650,000 · OtherST VINCENTS DAY HOMEREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - GOLDMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY — $505,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - GOLDMAN SCHOOL …ADVOKIDS — $279,500 · Other+110 more — $6,075,700 · Other+110 moreBlueSkies for Children Inc — $507,000 · Human ServicesBlueSkies for Chi…Step One School — $230,000 · Human ServicesStep One SchoolSOAR For Youth — $202,500 · Human ServicesSOAR For YouthBEYOND EMANCIPATION — $200,000 · Human ServicesBEYOND EMANCIPATI…We Care Services For Children — $195,000 · Human ServicesWe Care Services …Child Care Law Center — $90,000 · Human Services+22 more — $840,162 · Human Services+22 moreLEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC — $950,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL SERVICES…EAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC — $217,500 · Crime & LegalEAST BAY CHILD…Friends of Alameda County CASA Inc — $140,000 · Crime & LegalFriends of Ala…PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH — $120,000 · Crime & LegalPROJECT AVARY …LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS — $95,000 · Crime & LegalFamily Violence Law Center — $87,500 · Crime & LegalFAMILY VIOLENCE APPELLATE PROJECT — $80,000 · Crime & LegalCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA — $75,000 · Crime & Legal+7 more — $205,000 · Crime & Legal+7 moreBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC — $262,500 · HealthBAY AREA C…East Bay Agency for Children — $207,500 · HealthEast Bay A…Lincoln — $170,000 · HealthLincolnSide By Side — $140,000 · HealthSide By Si…JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY — $90,000 · HealthJEWISH FAM…Family Paths Inc — $85,000 · HealthFamily Pat…Early Childhood Mental Health Program — $80,000 · HealthEarly Chil…FRED FINCH YOUTH CENTER — $80,000 · HealthFRED FINCH…SUTTER BAY HOSPITALS — $75,000 · HealthHEALTHY BLACK FAMILIES INC — $50,000 · Health+6 more — $181,500 · Health+6 moreCenter for Early Intervention on Deafness — $212,500 · EducationBerkeley Public Schools Fund — $206,000 · EducationASPIRE EDUCATION PROJECT — $80,000 · EducationREADING PARTNERS — $75,000 · EducationPARTNERS IN OAKLAND EDUCATION DBA VINCENT ACADEMY — $60,000 · EducationThe Junior Center of Art and Science — $42,500 · EducationBay Area Hispano Institute for Advancement Inc — $40,000 · EducationOakland Literacy Coalition Inc — $40,000 · EducationREAD-ALOUD VOLUNTEER PROGRAM — $40,000 · EducationSTILES HALL — $37,500 · EducationCommunity Resources for Science — $35,000 · Education+2 more — $30,000 · EducationYOUNG MUSICIANS CHORAL ORCHESTRA — $115,000 · Arts & CultureKala Art Institute — $105,000 · Arts & CultureEast Bay Center for the Performing Arts — $85,000 · Arts & CultureCANTARE CON VIVO — $45,000 · Arts & CulturePrescott Circus Theatre — $42,500 · Arts & CultureWATERSIDE WORKSHOPS — $40,000 · Arts & CultureEAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY — $25,000 · Arts & CultureDIABLO BALLET — $20,000 · Arts & CultureMindful Life Project — $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH SPIRIT ARTWORKS — $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentALAMEDA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC — $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentBerkeley Baby Book Project — $58,500 · Youth DevelopmentYES Nature to Neighborhoods — $37,500 · Youth DevelopmentLOTUS BLOOM — $20,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$7,510,200Human Services$2,264,662Crime & Legal$1,970,000Health$1,421,500Education$898,500Arts & Culture$477,500Youth Development$381,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC — $950,000 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetST VINCENTS DAY HOME — $650,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetBlueSkies for Children Inc — $507,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetADVOKIDS — $279,500 over 9y, 9.1% of budgetBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC — $262,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetStep One School — $230,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetEAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC — $217,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetCenter for Early Intervention on Deafness — $212,500 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetEast Bay Agency for Children — $207,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBerkeley Public Schools Fund — $206,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetST MARY'S CENTER — $205,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetSOAR For Youth — $202,500 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetBEYOND EMANCIPATION — $200,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetMILLS COLLEGE — $195,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWe Care Services For Children — $195,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetLincoln — $170,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES — $155,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Alameda County CASA Inc — $140,000 over 9y, 8.4% of budgetSide By Side — $140,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCenter For Youth Development Through Law — $138,000 over 9y, 7.6% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates — $135,000 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetSHELTER INC — $132,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH — $120,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetMindful Life Project — $120,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetYOUNG MUSICIANS CHORAL ORCHESTRA — $115,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetYOUTH ALIVE — $115,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CHILD RESOURCE INSTITUTE — $115,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKala Art Institute — $105,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY — $105,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetLEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS — $95,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY — $90,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPEGASUS VOYAGES INC — $90,000 over 9y, 15% of budgetChild Care Law Center — $90,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetFamily Violence Law Center — $87,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetEast Bay Center for the Performing Arts — $85,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFamily Paths Inc — $85,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE & SOUND — $85,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetEarly Childhood Mental Health Program — $80,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNational Center for Youth Law — $80,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRED FINCH YOUTH CENTER — $80,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $80,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY VIOLENCE APPELLATE PROJECT — $80,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetASPIRE EDUCATION PROJECT — $80,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetRichmond Police Activities League — $77,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $75,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSUTTER BAY HOSPITALS — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA — $75,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCocoKids Inc — $75,000 over 6y, 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 LEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENTS DAY HOME ↗
  • Who funds BlueSkies for Children Inc ↗
  • Who funds ADVOKIDS ↗
  • Who funds BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds Step One School ↗
  • Who funds EAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Center for Early Intervention on Deafness ↗
  • Who funds East Bay Agency for Children ↗
  • Who funds Berkeley Public Schools Fund ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SOAR For Youth ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND EMANCIPATION ↗
  • Who funds MILLS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds We Care Services For Children ↗
  • Who funds Lincoln ↗
  • Who funds SENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Alameda County CASA Inc ↗
  • Who funds Side By Side ↗
  • Who funds Center For Youth Development Through Law ↗
  • Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds Mindful Life Project ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MUSICIANS CHORAL ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH ALIVE ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CHILD RESOURCE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Kala Art Institute ↗
  • Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY ↗

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.

East Bay Community Fo…Lowell Berry Foundati…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The San Francisco Fou…Dean and Margaret Les…The Morris Stulsaft F…Quest FoundationSunlight GivingThe Barrios TrustTipping Point Communi…Marin Community Found…Chamberlin Family Phi…
East Bay Community FoundationCA109.9× affinity80 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · Lowell Berry Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The San Francisco Foundation · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · Quest Foundation · Sunlight Giving · The Barrios Trust · Tipping Point Community · Marin Community Foundation · Chamberlin Family Philanthropy

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 Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    72report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 217 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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