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David & Sadie Traum 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.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Health$67kHuman Services$52kEducation$35kCrime & Legal$19kCommunity Improvement$10kRecreation & Sports$10kEnvironment$5kCivil Rights$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$201k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIDGET ALLIANCE$10,000
HARLEM GROWN$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
LEGAL AID SOCIETY$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES: $35k → 17%NAVAJO NATION: $2k → 32%THE COMMUNITY PANTRY: $2k → 13%HOPE FOR KIDS GEAUGA: $2k → 6%GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK: $2k → 17%MISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES: $18k → 17%HOPE FOR KIDS GEAUGA: $2k → 6%BRIDGET ALLIANCE: $10k → 17%BRIDGET ALLIANCE: $10k → 17%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $10k → 17%COMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE: $10k → 17%THE KASIISI PROJECT: $10k → 17%NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES: $10k → 17%NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES: $10k → 17%WINWARD SCHOOL: $8k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION: $8k → 17%THE KASIISI PROJECT: $8k → 17%FAIR TRIALS: $5k → 17%IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU: $5k → 17%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $5k → 17%NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES: $5k → 17%HAWLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5k → 17%NACDL FOUNDATION FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE: $5k → 17%CONSERVATION LANDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%COMMUNITY RESOURCE: $3k → 17%HARLEM GROWN: $3k → 17%HOPE FOR KIDS GEAUGA: $3k → 17%IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU: $3k → 17%WEALFACCOMPANY CAPITA: $3k → 17%LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $3k → 17%HOPE FOR KIDS GEAUGA: $2k → 17%MAXIMUM AFFORDABLE HOS: $2k → 17%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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$113k · 6 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
14

Total granted

$113k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-35%
+10%

Still filing today

50%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
Crime & LegalRecreation & SportsHealthCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther

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

  • NC
    NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $60k · revenue -80%
  • BA
    BRIDGET ALLIANCE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k
  • TK
    THE KASIISI PROJECT
    2× · 2022–2023 · $18k

Funded once

  • MC
    MISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES
    one grant, 2023 · $18k
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +17%
  • CR
    COMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -46%

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
Center for Community Change

The mission of community change is to build the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change the policies and institutions that impact their lives.

Community Improvement
2
Counselors of Real Estate

Cre was established exclusively for real estate advisors who provide intelligent, unbiased, and trusted advice for a client or employer. the purpose of the organization is to serve as an information resource and to provide its members with…

Community Improvement
3
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Center for Financial Planning

The mission of cfp board center for financial planning, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is to advance competent and ethical financial planning and expand cfp professional diversity for the benefit of the public.

Community Improvement
4
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
5
Coalition for Green Capital D/B/a American Green Bank Consortium

Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…

Environment
6
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland

See schedule o.legal aid's mission is to secure justice, equity and access to opportunity for and with people who have low incomes through passionate legal representation and advocacy for systematic change.

7
Center for Community Change Action

The center for community change action builds the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change the policies and institutions that impact their lives.(mission statement continued on schedule…

Public Benefit
8
Central New York Community Foundation Inc

Our mission is to foster a thriving and equitable central new york region by leading and inspiring a community culture of giving, celebrating legacy and stewarding charitable resources for today and tomorrow.

Philanthropy
9
Open New York Inc

Open new york is a grassroots non-profit working to solve new york's housing crisis. we advocate for policy changes across the state that will allow for more housing options in every neighborhood. open new york believes in homes for all…

Housing & Shelter
10
Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

11
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
12
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Learning Disabilities Inc and the most unlike its peers is It Could Happen to You Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 24 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)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC — $59,646 · OtherNATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INCBRIDGET ALLIANCE — $20,000 · OtherBRIDGET ALLIANCEMISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES — $17,900 · OtherMISCELLANEOUS CHARITIESTHE KASIISI PROJECT — $17,500 · OtherTHE KASIISI PROJECTWINWARD SCHOOL — $7,500 · Other+11 more — $37,849 · Other+11 moreIT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU INC — $7,500 · Crime & LegalHOPE FOR KIDS GEAUGA — $4,000 · Crime & LegalTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY — $2,500 · Crime & LegalCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCOMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $7,500 · HealthHARLEM GROWN INC — $2,500 · EnvironmentGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$160,395Crime & Legal$14,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Community Improvement$10,000Health$7,500Environment$2,500Food & Nutrition$2,000

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 budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC — $59,646 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU INC — $7,500 over 2y, 41% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR KIDS GEAUGA — $4,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetHARLEM GROWN INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $2,000 over 1y, 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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC
  • Who funds IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU INC
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
  • Who funds HOPE FOR KIDS GEAUGA
  • Who funds HARLEM GROWN INC
  • Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization David & Sadie Traum 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%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 David & Sadie Traum Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to David & Sadie Traum 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 24 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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