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David & Edith Emerman Foundation Inc at a glance

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David & Edith Emerman 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.

$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$6kHuman Services$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$600Health$454Community Improvement$260Other$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200
Median grant
3
States reached
$44k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY$1,800
ORCHARDS CHILDRENS SERVICES$500
Individual grant recipient$400
FRANKLIN BINGHAM FARMS POLICE BENEVOLENT FUND$200
Individual grant recipient$150
FRANKLIN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION$60
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$35
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $21 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $35 → 14%FRANKLIN BINGHAM FARMS POLICE BENEVOLENT FUND: $200 → 8%FRANKLIN BINGHAM FARMS POLICE BENEVOLENT FUND: $150 → 8%FRANKLIN BINGHAM FARMS POLICE BENEVOLENT FUND: $150 → 8%FRANKLIN BINGHAM FARMS POLICE BENEVOLENT FUND: $100 → 8%ORCHARDS CHILDRENS SERVICES: $500 → 8%ORCHARDS CHILDRENS SERVICES: $500 → 8%ORCHARDS CHILDRENS SERVICES: $500 → 8%ORCHARDS CHILDRENS SERVICES: $500 → 8%ORCHARDS CHILDRENS SERVICES: $500 → 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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11k · 8 repeat orgs$541 to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$11k
$141

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+39%

Still filing today

63%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • OC
    ORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +35%
  • FC
    FRANKLIN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $260 · revenue +86%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $162 · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100 · revenue +39%
  • KW
    KIDS WISH NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2022 · $21 · revenue -24%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20 · revenue +53%
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 Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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2
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
3
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
4
Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance

To marshal and focus the resources and relationships needed to cure fa by raising funds for research, promoting public awareness and aligning scientists, patients, clinicians, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies dedicated to…

Health
5
Wipe Out Kids' Cancer Inc

Wipe out kids cancer offers comfort and hope to kids with cancer through support programs serving the entire family and funds innovative research leading to new discoveries and treatments in the fight against pediatric cancer. "support and…

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6
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
7
The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc

To drive the research that will provide preventions, treatments and cures, for people affected by retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, usher syndrome, and the spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases.

Health
8
Breakthrough T1D

Breakthrough t1d is the leading global t1d organization working to accelerate life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent, and treat t1d and its complications.

Health
9
SISTER2SISTER

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death after lung cancer in women in the us overall, but its the leading cause of cancer death in black and hispanic women. geographical disparities in breast cancer incidence and…

Health
10
CSNK2A1 Foundation

Focus on finding a cure for okur-chung neurodevelopmental syndrome and ensuring individuals have the opportunities and support necessary for happy and full lives.

Health
11
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
12
The Institute for Psychiatric Neuroscience

To carry out and support basic research related to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder OCD and Depression.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Franklin Community Association. 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

8 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. 8 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $6,300 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $450 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $400 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+1 more: $225 · OtherORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES INCFRANKLIN-BINGHAM FARMS POLICE BENEVOLENT FUND: $600 · Human ServicesFRANKLIN-BINGHAM FARMS POLICE BEN…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $162 · Human Services+1 more: $21 · Human ServicesFRANKLIN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $260 · Arts & CultureTHE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION INC: $100 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $88 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20 · Health
Other$7,375Human Services$3,283Arts & Culture$260Health$208

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 budgetORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN-BINGHAM FARMS POLICE BENEVOLENT FUND: $600 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $162 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $88 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS WISH NETWORK INC: $21 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization David & Edith Emerman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David & Edith Emerman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to David & Edith Emerman Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to David & Edith Emerman 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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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