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Emerald Foundation Inc Co Solomon Blum Heymann at a glance

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Emerald Foundation Inc Co Solomon Blum Heymann

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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$88k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$6.8MEducation$3.5MScience & Tech$825k
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $385k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.2M
$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLO$87,500
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCH OF MEDIC$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCH OF MEDIC$75,000
NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$75,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLO$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY$50,000
SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDI$50,000
JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$50,000
WHITEHEAD INST FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEA$50,000
WHITEHEAD INST FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEA$50,000
SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIO STUDIES$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$50,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$50,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: $100k → 8%Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc: $150k → 16%University of Minnesota Foundation: $100k → 11%Fox Chase Cancer Center: $75k → 22%University of California San Francisco: $150k → 10%Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $150k → 11%CA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $80k → 14%NYU School of Medicine: $75k → 17%Georgetown University: $150k → 14%Regents of the University of Michigan: $150k → 14%Loyola University of Chicago: $150k → 14%Hackensack University Medical Center: $75k → 7%JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100k → 19%Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc: $150k → 16%University of California San Francisco: $150k → 10%Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $150k → 11%NYU School of Medicine: $75k → 17%Georgetown University: $150k → 14%Regents of the University of Michigan: $150k → 14%Loyola University of Chicago: $150k → 14%Hackensack University Medical Center: $75k → 7%Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc: $150k → 16%Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $150k → 11%Loyola University of Chicago: $150k → 14%Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $100k → 11%Hospital for Special Surgery: $100k → 17%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $100k → 16%WEILL MED COLLEGE OF CORNELL U: $150k → 17%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $100k → 16%Rockefeller University: $150k → 17%Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $150k → 8%Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $150k → 17%Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $150k → 8%Rockefeller University: $150k → 17%Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $150k → 8%Rockefeller University: $150k → 17%MA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $150k → 8%Regents of the University of California: $150k → 11%Rockefeller University: $150k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MD BALTIMORE FOUNDATI: $150k → 19%Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $150k → 8%Regents of the University of California: $150k → 11%Weill Cornell Medicine: $150k → 17%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLO: $88k → 8%Regents of the University of California: $150k → 11%UC San Diego Foundation: $100k → 11%Tisch Multiple Sclerosis Research Center of New York Inc: $150k → 17%Tisch Multiple Sclerosis Research Center of New York Inc: $150k → 17%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
KY
MD
DC
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Emerald Foundation Inc Co Solomon Blum Heymann’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 22% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 19%.

Emerald Foundation Inc Co Solomon Blum Heymannlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.0M · 28 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
11

Total granted

$9.0M
$875k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+91%

Still filing today

39%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $385k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthScience & TechOther
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

  • TR
    THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $750k · revenue +33%
  • TS
    The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
    6× · 2017–2024 · $750k · revenue +38%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $525k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • WM
    WEILL MED COLLEGE OF CORNELL U
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • JS
    JOAN SANFORD I WEILL MEDICAL
    one grant, 2023 · $113k
  • HF
    Hospital for Special Surgery
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
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
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
5
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
8
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
9
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Who We Play for Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 46 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Regents of the University of California: $450,000 · OtherRegents of the University of CaliforniaMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $450,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $405,000 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $375,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $375,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $375,000 · OtherMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterMA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $375,000 · OtherMA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYNYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $337,500 · OtherNYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINEUNIVERSITY OF MD BALTIMORE FOUNDATI: $300,000 · OtherWeill Cornell Medicine: $300,000 · OtherUniversity of Guelph: $200,000 · OtherSALK INSTITUTE FOR BIO STUDIES: $200,000 · Other+17 more: $1,672,500 · Other+17 moreMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $762,500 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Techn…THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $750,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITYLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $450,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $400,000 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $192,500 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLO…+4 more: $350,000 · Education+4 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $525,000 · HealthDana-Farber C…TISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC: $300,000 · HealthTISCH MULTIPL…WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $250,000 · HealthWHITEHEAD INS…The Institute For Cancer Research: $117,500 · HealthThe Institute…Who We Play For Inc: $75,000 · HealthWho We Play F…Children's Hospital Corporation: $75,000 · HealthChildren's Ho…The Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $750,000 · Science & Tech
Other$5,815,000Education$3,205,000Health$1,342,500Science & Tech$750,000

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 budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $762,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $750,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $750,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $525,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $450,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC: $300,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $192,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Institute For Cancer Research: $117,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWho We Play For Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $50,000 over 1y, 10% 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.

  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds The Institute For Cancer Research ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Who We Play For Inc ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Emerald Foundation Inc Co Solomon Blum Heymann funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Emerald Foundation Inc Co Solomon Blum Heymann. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
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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Find your warmest path to Emerald Foundation Inc Co Solomon Blum Heymann 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 46 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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