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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 you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172019.

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

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your 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%New York University Langone Med Cen: $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%NYU Cancer Institute: $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

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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MA
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CA
CO
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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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve 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

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

  • 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
  • NY
    New York University Langone Med Cen
    one grant, 2018 · $4k

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
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.

7
Boston Architectural College

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

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alzheimer's Foundation of America Inc and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%47%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%37%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,544

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VASSAR COLLEGE — $5,500 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGEDartmouth College — $5,500 · OtherDartmouth CollegeNew York University Langone Med Cen — $4,000 · OtherNew York University Langone Med CenNYU Cancer Institute — $4,000 · OtherNYU Cancer InstituteTHE 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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetQUAKER RIDGE EMPLOYEE CHARITY FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Dora & Emanuel Ciner Foundation Inc co Ms Elizabeth Ciner Jackson 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.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Wellesley College1% 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, 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.

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

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