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Emerson 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.

$325k
Granted FY2022
10
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

93% of Emerson Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Bradley Impact Fund Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Emerson Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $325k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’17
2
’18
2
’19
1
’20
3
’21
6
’22
3
’23
6
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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.

Philanthropy$4.6MInternational$465kPublic Safety & Disaster$300kEnvironment$202kArts & Culture$105kCommunity Improvement$102kCivil Rights$98kPublic Benefit$81kOther$0
02FY2022 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
$42,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$594k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CREATIVE COMMUNITY FOR PEACE$50,000
CENTRAL FUND OF ISREAL$50,000
THE AMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION$50,000
THE CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL$50,000
FRIENDS OF ELNET EUROPEAN LEADERSHI$42,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT$40,000
MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE$25,000
MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$12,500
HENRY JACKSON SOCIETY$5,000
GARY SINESE FOUNDATIION$500
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 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%REPORT INC: $50k → 6%REPORT INC: $30k → 7%HENRY JACKSON SOCIETY INC: $20k → 22%ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE STAND WIT: $300k → 14%CENTRAL FUND OF ISREAL: $150k → 6%CENTRAL FUND OF ISREAL: $50k → 17%PROCLAIMING JUSTICE THE NATIONS: $25k → 14%BRADLEY IMPACT FUND: $4.2M → 17%GARY SINESE FOUNDATIION: $500 → 14%FRIENDS OF ELNET: $25k → 14%FUENTE LATINA: $25k → 12%CREATIVE COMMUNITY FOR PEACE: $50k → 14%CENTRAL FUND OF ISREAL: $50k → 6%CENTRAL FUND OF ISREAL: $50k → 17%BRADLEY IMPACT FUND: $206k → 17%FUENTE LATINA: $25k → 12%OHR HA TORAH: $10k → 14%THE CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL: $50k → 6%CENTRAL FUND OF ISREAL: $25k → 17%BRADLEY IMPACT FUND: $50k → 17%DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER: $3k → 14%CENTRAL FUND OF ISREAL: $50k → 6%FRIENDS OF ELNET EUROPEAN LEADERSHI: $50k → 17%ACT FOR AMERICA: $15k → 14%CENTRAL FUND OF ISREAL: $25k → 6%AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $50k → 17%TRIBE MEDIA: $10k → 14%CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL: $25k → 6%FRIENDS OF ELNET EUROPEAN LEADERSHI: $42k → 17%HARKHAM GAON ACADEMY: $2k → 14%CENTRAL FUND OF ISREAL: $25k → 6%HENRY JACKSON SOCIETY: $5k → 17%UNITED THROUGH READING: $500 → 14%FRIENDS OF ELNET EUROPEAN LEADERSHI: $10k → 17%CEDARS SINAI: $75k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF IDC: $10k → 17%CEDARS SINAI: $2k → 14%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT: $40k → 17%BAILONA WETLANDS LAND TRUST: $2k → 14%MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT: $15k → 17%MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $13k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
PA
NJ
CA
TN
DC
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 9 repeat orgs$553k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$1.0M
$373k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+0%

Still filing today

56%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
InternationalEducationHealthPublic BenefitEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    4× · 2021–2024 · $375k · revenue +98%
  • RE
    RESEARCH - EVAL - PROMOTING ORG RESPON & TRANSPARENCY - REPORT - INC
    2× · 2019–2024 · $80k · revenue +13%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $77k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • IE
    ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE STAND WIT
    one grant, 2017 · $300k
  • PJ
    PROCLAIMING JUSTICE THE NATIONS
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • HJ
    HENRY JACKSON SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
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
Impact Forum Foundation

The Impact Forum is an exclusive network of philanthropists. We are connecting philanthropists that support each others initiatives and collaborate to empower and meet with exceptional non-profit organizations to fight antisemitism,…

Philanthropy
2
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
3
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
4
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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5
Israel 21c

Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.

Education
6
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
7
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
8
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
9
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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10
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

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…

International
11
American Friends of Kohelet Policy Forum

The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.

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12
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Moving Picture Institute; the most unlike its peers is Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. 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

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 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC: $4,437,480 · PhilanthropyBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC+2 more: $55,500 · PhilanthropyISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE STAND WIT: $300,000 · OtherISRAEL EMERGENCY…AMERICAN CONSERVATION: $150,000 · OtherAMERICAN CONSERV…CENTRAL FUND OF ISREAL: $125,000 · OtherCENTRAL FUND OF …FRIENDS OF ELNET EUROPEAN LEADERSHI: $102,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF ELNET…FUENTE LATINA: $50,000 · OtherFUENTE LATINACREATIVE COMMUNITY FOR PEACE: $50,000 · OtherCREATIVE COMMUNI…+10 more: $92,000 · Other+10 moreCentral Fund of Israel: $375,000 · InternationalCentral F…RESEARCH - EVAL - PROMOTING ORG RESPON & TRANSPARENCY - REPORT - INC: $80,000 · InternationalRESEARCH …AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $50,000 · InternationalAMERICAN …FRIENDS OF ELNET: $25,000 · International+1 more: $10,000 · InternationalPROCLAIMING JUSTICE TO THE NATIONS INC: $50,000 · EducationMERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $37,500 · EducationCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $77,000 · HealthAMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION ACTION INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$4,492,980Other$869,000International$540,000Education$87,500Health$77,000Environment$50,000Arts & Culture$25,000

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 budgetBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC: $4,437,480 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $375,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRESEARCH - EVAL - PROMOTING ORG RESPON & TRANSPARENCY - REPORT - INC: $80,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $77,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION ACTION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROCLAIMING JUSTICE TO THE NATIONS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRIBE MEDIA CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HENRY JACKSON SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED THROUGH READING: $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 Communal FundThe Milstein Family F…Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Community Fede…Goodman Family Suppor…David & Janet Polak F…Hochberg Family Found…Donors Trust IncJewish Community Foun…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Chicago Community…
Jewish Communal FundNY16.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Milstein Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Goodman Family Supporting Foundation · David & Janet Polak Foundation · Hochberg Family Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust

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 Emerson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Emerson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Emerson Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Emerson 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 29 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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