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Elmer and Mamdouha Bobst 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.

$180k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Education$11MHealth$5.3MPhilanthropy$800kPublic Benefit$445kArts & Culture$70kRecreation & Sports$30kHuman Services$3k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION$150,000
NATIONAL PARKS OF NEW YORK HARBOR CONSERVANCY$15,000
FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN$5,000
THE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION$5,000
MANE STREAM INC$5,000
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.

Your US giving75% of grant dollars ($13M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 25% that went abroad ($4.6M) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 10%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3k → 11%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.

Beyond the US25% of all-years giving ($4.6M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Lebanon$4.6M · 8 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 7 repeat orgs$6.0M to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$12M
$6.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+116%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

  • AU
    AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT
    3× · 2019–2021 · $11M · revenue +3%
  • TR
    THE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $445k · revenue +124%
  • BG
    BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $6k · revenue +231%

Funded once

  • ZC
    ZAKAT & CHARITY HOUSE AL-HANAN HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2019 · $2.1M
  • SS
    SOCIAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION (HOSPITAL AND ELDERLY CARE CENTER)
    one grant, 2019 · $1.5M
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $1.3M · revenue -81%

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
The Florida International University Health Care Network Inc

Fiu health care network's mission is to improve and support medical education at the fiu herbert wertheim college of medicine and provide clinical support services to the larger fiu community.

2
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
American College of Health Care Administrators

The american college of health care administrators (achca) is the catalyst for excellence in post-acute and aging services leadership.

Health
5
American College of Gastroenterology

Our mission is to enhance the ability of our members to provide world class care to patients with digestive disorders and advance the profession through excellence and innovation based upon the pillars of patient care, education,…

Health
6
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
7
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

8
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
10
Boston Architectural College

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

11
Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health
12
Nyu Langone Health System

The board adopted mission statement is: the corporation is operated exclusively for the benefit of nyu langone hospitals and its affiliated organizations. in this capacity, the corporation, may, in order to improve the health and welfare…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boca Grande Health Clinic Fndtn Inc and the most unlike its peers is Johann Fust Library Foundation Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 17 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT — $11,450,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUTZAKAT & CHARITY HOUSE AL-HANAN HOSPITAL — $2,150,000 · OtherZAKAT & CHARITY HOUSE AL-HANAN H…SOCIAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION (HOSPITAL AND ELDERLY CARE CENTER) — $1,500,000 · OtherSOCIAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION (HOS…SANABEL AL NOUR ASSOCIATION — $953,000 · OtherSANABEL AL NOUR ASSOCIATIONTHE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION — $445,000 · OtherTHE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION+4 more — $176,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,250,000 · HealthTHE KAMEN BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Health+1 more — $5,000 · HealthNATIONAL PARKS OF NEW YORK HARBOR CONSERVANCY DBA FEDERAL HALL CONSERVANCY — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC — $6,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN — $5,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $3,000 · Human Services
Education$11,450,000Other$5,224,000Health$1,355,000Recreation & Sports$30,000Arts & Culture$10,000Philanthropy$6,000International$5,000Human Services$3,000

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 budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT — $11,450,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION — $445,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetHealthCare Chaplaincy Inc DBA HealthCare Chaplaincy Network — $105,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS OF NEW YORK HARBOR CONSERVANCY DBA FEDERAL HALL CONSERVANCY — $30,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMane Stream Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCALVARY HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA10.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Elmer and Mamdouha Bobst 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Mane Stream Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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How do I get to Elmer and Mamdouha Bobst Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Elmer and Mamdouha Bobst 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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