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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 FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0171% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Youth Development$273kEducation$196kArts & Culture$94kCrime & Legal$59kHuman Services$45kHousing & Shelter$35kInternational$30kCommunity Improvement$24kPhilanthropy$10kOther$327k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH X YOUTH$50,000
LEARNSERVE INTERNATIONAL$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
GENERATION HOPE$10,000
ASYLUM WORKS$10,000
LIFE PIECES TO MATERPIECES$10,000
CRITICAL EXPOSURE$10,000
WASHINGTON BALTIMORE CENTER$7,500
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $8k → 14%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $8k → 8%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $5k → 8%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $5k → 14%ACCESS YOUTH INC: $5k → 14%HOPE HOUSE: $10k → 14%HOPE HOUSE: $5k → 14%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.

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.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$980k · 24 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
11

Total granted

$980k
$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+193%

Still filing today

71%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Youth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • YX
    YOUTH X YOUTH INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +4% · 81% of their budget
  • LI
    Learnserve International
    5× · 2019–2024 · $85k · revenue +30%
  • LP
    LIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES
    7× · 2017–2024 · $81k · revenue ×11

Funded once

  • MO
    Mother of Light Centergraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $24k · revenue +318%
  • DO
    DREAMING OUT LOUD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $24k · revenue +193%
  • SS
    STUDENTS SHOULDER-TO-SHOULDERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +40%

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
Youthbuild Dc Public Charter School Inc

Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…

Education
2
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
3
Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
4
The Maya Angelou Public Charter School

To create learning communities in lower income urban areas where all students, particularly those who have not succeeded in traditional schools, can reach their potential and prepare for college, career and a lifetime of success.

Education
5
The Children's Home Inc

Provides residential and community services to promote long-term well-being and success for young people and families who experience disruption in their lives.

Human Services
6
Global Kids Inc

Global kids educates, inspires and mobilizes youth to become global citizens who are positively engaged in the world and are prepared for their future.

Youth Development
7
Youth Enrichment Services Inc

Youth enrichment services, inc. was founded in 1994 for the purpose of providing at-risk teens and low-income families residing in allegheny county a comprehensive in-home peer mentoring program, juvenile alternative to detention,…

Human Services
8
Wide Angle Youth Media Inc

Through media arts education, wide angle youth media collaborates with and amplifies the voices of baltimore youth to engage audiences across social divides. our programs inspire creativity and instill confidence in young people,…

Arts & Culture
9
Dc Community Development Consortium Institute
Community Improvement
10
Latinas Leading Tomorrow

Connect and expose Latinas to opportunities that enrich their future through education mentoring and leadership development.

Human Services
11
Institute for Educational Leadership

The institute for educational leadership, inc., known as iel, was incorporated on december 4, 1980, in the district of columbia, and serves to lift up underserved leaders and equip them with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to…

Education
12
Cityworks Dc

Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Blossoms Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mother of Light Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%8%<5yr15%4%5–10yr19%36%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr14%12%35–55yr14%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%27%<5yr15%4%5–10yr19%33%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr14%6%35–55yr14%4%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 27% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/26
the rest of the field
13%
2,637/20,537

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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 35 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
21/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $115,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $76,315 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWASHINGTON BALTIMORE CENTER — $43,000 · OtherWASHINGTON BALTIMORE CENTERSOME INC — $22,500 · OtherSOME INCAsylumWorks — $30,000 · OtherAsylumWorksMother of Light Center — $23,815 · OtherMother of Light Center+8 more — $79,768 · Other+8 moreYOUTH X YOUTH INC — $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH X YOUTH INCCritical Exposure Inc — $29,500 · Youth DevelopmentCritical Exposure IncDREAMING OUT LOUD INC — $23,815 · Youth DevelopmentDREAMING OUT LOUD INCCity Kids to Wilderness Project Inc — $10,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $9,250 · Youth DevelopmentLearnserve International — $85,000 · EducationLearnserve Internati…GENERATION HOPE — $68,815 · EducationGENERATION HOPEA WIDER CIRCLE INC — $22,500 · EducationA WIDER CIRCLE INCCENTER FOR INSPIRED TEACHING — $12,500 · EducationCENTER FOR INSPIRED …THE YOUNG WOMEN'S PROJECT — $7,500 · EducationLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES — $81,315 · Arts & CultureLIFE PIEC…SITAR ARTS CENTER — $12,500 · Arts & CultureSITAR ART…THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $46,315 · Crime & LegalART ENABLES — $12,500 · Crime & LegalHOPE HOUSE — $15,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC — $12,500 · Human ServicesMIRIAM'S KITCHEN — $12,500 · Human ServicesACCESS INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF RUTH — $22,500 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING UNLIMITED INC — $12,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$390,398Youth Development$272,565Education$196,315Arts & Culture$93,815Crime & Legal$58,815Human Services$45,000Housing & Shelter$35,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetHOUSE OF RUTH — $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC — $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOME INC — $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HOUSE — $15,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetART ENABLES — $12,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSITAR ARTS CENTER — $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSING UNLIMITED INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN — $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR INSPIRED TEACHING — $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTUDENTS SHOULDER-TO-SHOULDER — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCity Kids to Wilderness Project Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 budgetTEENS RUN DC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetACCESS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCITY BLOSSOMS INC — $1,750 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

The Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…Philip L Graham Fund …Nora Roberts Foundati…Clark-Winchcole Found…John Edward Fowler Me…William S Abell Found…Eugene & Agnes E Meye…United Way of the Nat…The Harman Cain Famil…Diane & Norman Bernst…Hattie M Strong Found…
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

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 Ernest & Rose Samuels Fndtn Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 35 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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