· Private foundation
Bernard W Abrams Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k48 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EDLAVITCH JEWISH CMNTY CTR WASH DC | $20,500 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $15,510 |
| ATLANTA AREA COUNCIL INC SCOUTS BSA | $7,500 |
| CENTURION MINISTRIES INC | $7,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDN OF AMER INC | $6,650 |
| RAINFOREST TRUST | $6,350 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $6,000 |
| UNIV OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL | $5,250 |
| UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC | $5,000 |
| YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| INNERCITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HOPE FOR HAITI INC | $4,850 |
| AMER SOCIETY PRVNTN CRUELTY ANIMALS | $4,750 |
| RISE AGAINST SUICIDE | $4,300 |
| BOYS&GIRLS CLUBS METRO ATLANTA INC | $4,300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
81 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The Trustees of Princeton University9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +5%
CENTURION MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +191%- RTRAINFOREST TRUST9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- VNVISITING NURSE HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +36%
- QEQLTY EDUCATION MINORITIES NETWORKone grant, 2021 · $3k
- UCUSO COUNCIL OF GEORGIA INCone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +27%
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.
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.
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.
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Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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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.
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How this is measured
72 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. 72 of the 119 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: The Selig Foundation Inc · AEC Trust · David & Jennifer Kahn Family Foundation Inc · The Rich Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bernard W Abrams Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernard W Abrams Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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