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Ernest & Rose Samuels Fndtn Inc

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.

$158k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 21
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$2.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Ernest & Rose Samuels Fndtn Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

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
Youth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesInternationalCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$158k0%
FY20239$156k0%
FY202210$162k30%
FY20215$105k40%
FY20207$148k29%
FY201913$125k23%
FY201821$102k29%
FY201719$137kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$293kEducation$189kArts & Culture$162kHuman Services$73kCrime & Legal$51kInternational$30kHousing & Shelter$25kCommunity Improvement$24kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Youth X Youth Inc$200,000481%
Learnserve International$85,00055%
Life Pieces to Masterpieces$81,31572%
Generation Hope$68,81561%
The District of Columbia Children's Advocacy Center$46,31541%
AsylumWorks$30,00031%
Critical Exposure Inc$29,50051%
Mother of Light Center$23,81515%
Dreaming Out Loud Inc$23,81511%
Some Inc$22,50030%
Show all 26 grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($297k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Ernest & Rose Samuels Fndtn Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYouth X Youth Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 81% of budgetLearnserve International: $85,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetLife Pieces to Masterpieces: $81,315 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetGeneration Hope: $68,815 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetThe District of Columbia Children's Advocacy Center: $46,315 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAsylumWorks: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCritical Exposure Inc: $29,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMother of Light Center: $23,815 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetDreaming Out Loud Inc: $23,815 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSome Inc: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA Wider Circle Inc: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHouse of Ruth: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHope House: $15,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCenter for Inspired Teaching: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Foundation for Group Homes Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMiriam's Kitchen: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSitar Arts Center: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHousing Unlimited Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetArt Enables: $12,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCity Kids to Wilderness Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetStudents Shoulder-To-Shoulder: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTeens Run DC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Young Women's Project: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWashington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAccess Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCity Blossoms Inc: $1,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC38.2× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Nora Roberts Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Harman Cain Family Foundation · Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation Inc · Hattie M Strong 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.

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About Ernest & Rose Samuels Fndtn Inc

How much does Ernest & Rose Samuels Fndtn Inc give?
Ernest & Rose Samuels Fndtn Inc reported 8 grants totaling $157,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ernest & Rose Samuels Fndtn Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (27%), Education (17%), Arts & Culture (15%).
Who are Ernest & Rose Samuels Fndtn Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Youth X Youth Inc ($200k), Learnserve International ($85k), Life Pieces to Masterpieces ($81k).
Does Ernest & Rose Samuels Fndtn Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ernest & Rose Samuels Fndtn Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ernest & Rose Samuels Fndtn Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company.
Where is Ernest & Rose Samuels Fndtn Inc based?
Ernest & Rose Samuels Fndtn Inc is based in DC.

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 35 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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