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Dora & Emanuel Ciner Foundation Inc co Ms Elizabeth Ciner Jackson at a glance

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Dora & Emanuel Ciner Foundation Inc co Ms Elizabeth Ciner Jackson

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8k
Granted FY2019
10
Grants FY2019
3
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Health$26kEducation$20kCrime & Legal$5kYouth Development$3kPhilanthropy$3kAnimals$2kSocial Science$2kArts & Culture$835Other$0
02FY2019 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Charley's Fund$3,285
CASA of Jefferson and Gilpin Counti$500
Colorado Public Radio$500
IAALS$500
Colorado Judicial Institute$500
Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado$500
Holland Hart Foundation$500
Jefferson Mental Health Foundation$500
Wellesley College$500
Planned Parenthood$285
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Wellesley College: $5k → 7%Charley's Fund: $8k → 12%School Force Sandpiper: $1k → 7%San Francisco Public Library: $650 → 10%Northshore Animal League: $1k → 6%Vassar College: $6k → 9%Quaker Ridge Employee Charity Fund: $1k → 9%Hobart William Smith College: $1k → 10%NYU Cancer Institute: $4k → 17%The Main Idea: $2k → 20%Glenn Garcelon Foundation: $50 → 14%RAINN: $300 → 14%Jefferson Mental Health Foundation: $1k → 7%Littleton Family YMCA: $250 → 8%United Way: $1k → 12%Dartmouth College: $6k → 10%Wellesley College: $500 → 7%Charley's Fund: $3k → 12%San Francisco Marin Food Bank: $350 → 10%New York University Langone Med Cen: $4k → 17%Jefferson Mental Health Foundation: $500 → 7%Littleton Family YMCA: $50 → 8%Southwest Family YMCA: $250 → 12%Dartmouth 1969: $100 → 10%Charley's Fund: $3k → 12%Alzheimer's Foundation: $1k → 17%Jefferson County Library Foundation: $250 → 7%Colorado Public Radio: $500 → 8%Denver Southwest YMCA: $250 → 12%AMFAR: $300 → 17%Court Support Jeffco: $250 → 7%Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado: $1k → 12%CASA of Jefferson and Gilpin Counti: $1k → 7%Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado: $500 → 12%CASA of Jefferson and Gilpin Counti: $500 → 7%Holland Hart Foundation: $1k → 12%Holland Hart Foundation: $500 → 12%Denver Public Library: $250 → 12%Denver Art Museum: $160 → 12%Denver Art Museum: $75 → 12%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

NH
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
DC
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$31k · 11 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
23

Total granted

$31k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+56%

Still filing today

64%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
HealthEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalCivil RightsAnimalsOther
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

  • WC
    Wellesley College
    2× · 2018–2019 · $6k · revenue +81%
  • CO
    CASA OF JEFFERSON AND GILPIN COUNTIES
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +16%
  • CJ
    COLORADO JUDICIAL INSTITUTE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • VC
    VASSAR COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +33%
  • DC
    Dartmouth College
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
  • NC
    NYU Cancer Institute
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
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
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
2
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
3
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
4
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
5
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
6
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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7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Colorado Campaign for Inclusive Excellence

The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…

Civil Rights
9
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights
12
Advantage Testing Foundation

Our mission is to advance the academic and professional aspirations of underrepresented students of modest means, thereby expanding our nation's leadership pool. we provide educational tutoring, standardized test preparation and academic…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alzheimer's Foundation of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Foundation for Aids Research. 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

19 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. 19 of the 35 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VASSAR COLLEGE: $5,500 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGEDartmouth College: $5,500 · OtherDartmouth CollegeNYU Cancer Institute: $4,000 · OtherNYU Cancer InstituteNew York University Langone Med Cen: $4,000 · OtherNew York University Langone Med CenTHE MAIN IDEA INC: $2,000 · OtherTHE MAIN IDEA INCIAALS: $1,750 · OtherIAALSJefferson Mental Health Foundation: $1,600 · OtherPlanned Parenthood: $1,585 · OtherSchool Force Sandpiper: $1,450 · Other+11 more: $4,650 · Other+11 moreCHARLEY'S FUND INC: $13,359 · HealthCHARLEY'S FUND INCALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,100 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF A…+3 more: $650 · HealthWellesley College: $5,500 · EducationWellesley Coll…HOLLAND & HART FOUNDATION: $1,750 · EducationHOLLAND & HART…QUAKER RIDGE EMPLOYEE CHARITY FUND: $1,000 · EducationQUAKER RIDGE E…COLORADO JUDICIAL INSTITUTE: $1,750 · Crime & LegalLegal Aid Foundation of Colorado: $1,600 · Crime & LegalCASA OF JEFFERSON AND GILPIN COUNTIES: $1,750 · Civil RightsNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $1,000 · AnimalsEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $750 · Youth DevelopmentPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $500 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUM: $235 · Arts & Culture
Other$32,035Health$15,109Education$8,250Crime & Legal$3,350Civil Rights$1,750Animals$1,000Youth Development$750Arts & Culture$735

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHARLEY'S FUND INC: $13,359 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAIN IDEA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCASA OF JEFFERSON AND GILPIN COUNTIES: $1,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO JUDICIAL INSTITUTE: $1,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLegal Aid Foundation of Colorado: $1,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUAKER RIDGE EMPLOYEE CHARITY FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $235 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLENN GARCELON FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Dora & Emanuel Ciner Foundation Inc co Ms Elizabeth Ciner Jackson funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dora & Emanuel Ciner Foundation Inc co Ms Elizabeth Ciner Jackson. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–75%
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.

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 35 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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