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Elmar Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $681k
- $250k+1 grant · $292k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HERZL CAMP FOUNDATION | $291,512 |
| BETH EL SYNAGOGUE | $210,900 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND INC | $145,300 |
| MAYO CLINIC FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| THE PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI | $100,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS RESEARCH | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ARAVA INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| MISSION ANIMAL HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| MINNESOTA HILLEL | $10,000 |
| TORAH ACADEMY | $5,400 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC | $5,000 |
| HONOR FLIGHT TWIN CITIES | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HCHERZL CAMP FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +96% · 50% of their budget
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC3× · 2022–2024 · $240k · revenue +146%
- PUPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $188k · revenue +637%
Funded once
- AGAMERICA GIVES ADOPT A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR CAMPAIGNone grant, 2019 · $60k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $50k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INCone grant, 2023 · $36k · revenue -17%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To further jewish education in israel
For education and outreach to members of the minnesota jewish community. we hope to make the minnesota jewish community grow in numbers and involvement. we want the jewish community in minnesota to learn about their rich culture and…
To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
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…
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
To promote and enhance jewish religious observance in canada
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Jewish Federation and the most unlike its peers is The Yaya Foundation for 4H Leukodystophy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
39 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 68 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 HERZL CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds Agamim Classical Academy ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSION ANIMAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HILLEL ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MISSION CONTINUES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE YAYA FOUNDATION FOR 4H LEUKODYSTOPHY ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MINNESOTA SINFONIA ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Rum Fund · Lynne & Andrew Redleaf Foundation · Mark and Lisa Ratner Family Foundation Inc · Marshall & Elaine Siegel Foundation · Oren and Sharron Steinfeldt Foundation · Alex G & Mollie Tankenoff Family Foundation · Robert and Susan Diamond Foundation · Beryl and Florence Miller Family Foundation · The Lynn and Gloria Johnson Family 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 Elmar Family Foundation 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.
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.
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