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Effress-Miller Family Foundation at a glance

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Effress-Miller Family Foundation

Effress-miller foundation is a grant making organization dedicated to the objectives and programs promoted by the minneapolis federation for jewish services.

$28k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$189kReligion$11kEducation$3kArts & Culture$2kHuman Services$1kHealth$500Crime & Legal$500Other$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $18,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $28,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$18,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$518k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$18,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE: $500 → 14%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$113k · 3 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$113k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+86%

Still filing today

33%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyArts & CultureCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    7× · 2018–2024 · $104k · revenue +34%
  • TI
    TEMPLE ISRAEL
    2× · 2018–2019 · $8k
  • NS
    NORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISRAEL
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1k

Funded once

  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museumgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +57%
  • TC
    TAMARISK COUNTRY CLUBgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +86%
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +56%
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
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

Federation amplifies our collective strength to make the world a better place for everyone. we assist people in need, impact chicagoans of all faiths; support israel and the jewish people worldwide; respond swiftly to crises; cultivate…

Philanthropy
2
University of Judaism Foundation
—
3
Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh

Our vision is a flourishing jewish community where everyone feels included, supported and inspired. in order to accomplish this vision we cultivate resources, connect people and collaborate across the community to live and fulfill jewish…

Philanthropy
4
United Jewish Federation of Utah

The federation's mission is to build and maintain a vibrant and inclusive jewish community through meeting human needs, promoting jewish identity, and encouraging commitment to the needs of jewish people.

Philanthropy
5
Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona

Jewish philanthropies of southern arizona (jpsa) is committed to achieving the full potential of jewish philanthropy, now and for future generations. comprised of jewish federation of southern arizona (jfsa or federation) and jewish…

Philanthropy
6
Jewish Federation of Greater Clifton-Passaic
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7
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
8
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy
10
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
11
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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12
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of San Diego County; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

10 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. 10 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
10/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $104,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGOMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $68,033 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTYTEMPLE ISRAEL: $8,000 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL+3 more: $3,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3,000 · EducationThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,500 · Arts & CultureFAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE: $500 · Human ServicesNORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC: $500 · Crime & Legal
Philanthropy$121,000Other$79,533Education$3,000Arts & Culture$1,500Human Services$500Crime & Legal$500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $104,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $68,033 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAMARISK COUNTRY CLUB: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC: $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.

Jewish Federation of …The Chicago Community…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Effress-Miller Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Effress-Miller Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    4report 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, 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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    How do I get to Effress-Miller Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Effress-Miller Family 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 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 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 (FY2024) is on record and reports $55k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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