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David M & Hope G Solinger Foundation at a glance

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David M & Hope G Solinger 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.

$195k
Granted FY2023
39
Grants FY2023
12
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$95kArts & Culture$70kEnvironment$41kHuman Services$40kInternational$38kFood & Nutrition$33kHousing & Shelter$25kCrime & Legal$17kOther$0
02FY2023 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k30 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $110k
$3,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$98k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COUNCIL OF PEOPLE ORGANIZATION$20,000
FEEDING AMERICA$20,000
TECHNOSERVE$10,000
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL$10,000
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY$10,000
SUN RIVER HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION$10,000
THE BOWERY MISSION$10,000
ENVIRONMENT DEFENSE FUND$8,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$8,000
FLORENCE IMMGRATION & REFUGEE PROJECT$5,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY$5,000
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY$5,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 9%COUNCIL OF PEOPLE ORGANIZATION: $20k → 20%COUNCIL OF PEOPLE ORGANIZATION: $20k → 20%REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $1k → 14%THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $10k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
CA
KY
VA
AZ
AR
DC
LA
GA
TX
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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$157k · 10 repeat orgs$235k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against -41% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$157k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
-41%

Still filing today

60%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    6× · 2017–2022 · $15k · revenue +161%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +13%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    2× · 2020–2021 · $6k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • NA
    NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -100%
  • NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -41%
  • TB
    THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -62%
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
The Humane League

We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…

Animals
3
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
4
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
5
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
6
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
7
Nonhuman Rights Project Inc

The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) is the only civil rights organization in The United States dedicated solely to securing fundamental rights for nonhuman animals and the leading force in building a national and global nonhuman rights…

Animals
8
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
9
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
10
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
11
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
12
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Legal Aid Society; the most unlike its peers is Rabbi Rm Goldstein Fund. 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

45 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. 45 of the 53 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)
45/45
Grantees still filing
31/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HERBERT F JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ART: $25,000 · OtherHERBERT F JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ARTNATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION: $20,000 · OtherNATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATIONNYC PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $20,000 · OtherNYC PLANNED PARENTHOODNEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $20,000 · OtherNEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRACOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $10,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INCHEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · OtherHEIFER INTERNATIONALCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IN BOSTON: $9,000 · OtherRabbi RM Goldstein Fund: $7,000 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $10,000 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITYChristian Herald Association Inc: $10,000 · OtherChristian Herald Association Inc+18 more: $41,000 · Other+18 moreCOUNCIL OF PEOPLES ORGANIZATION INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL OF PEOPLE…THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE FUND O…A FUND INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesA FUND INCGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $3,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesSUN RIVER HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthSUN RIVER H…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…Children's Hospital Corporation: $6,000 · HealthChildren's …THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · HealthTHE FORTUNE…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S…CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S …The Fistula Foundation: $2,000 · HealthNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL N…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $8,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMEN…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $8,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RE…TECHNOSERVE INC: $10,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $3,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $3,000 · InternationalWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art: $8,750 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureFeeding America: $20,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$182,000Human Services$59,000Health$41,000Environment$36,000International$26,000Arts & Culture$24,750Food & Nutrition$23,000

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 budgetCOUNCIL OF PEOPLES ORGANIZATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUN RIVER HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $8,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRabbi RM Goldstein Fund: $7,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCheetah Conservation Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING WITH WOLVES LTD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $500 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.

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.

Lynn Stern & Jeremy L…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Lynn Stern & Jeremy Lang Family Foundation IncNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lynn Stern & Jeremy Lang Family Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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Find your warmest path to David M & Hope G Solinger 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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