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· Private foundation

Gerald and Deborah Hamburg Family

Its FY2017 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$23k
Granted FY2017
40
Grants FY2017
13
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$135
Median grant
13
States reached
$91k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTAMANATEE$7,000
TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL$4,525
SARASOTA BALLET$2,800
Individual grant recipient$1,550
SARASOTA OPERA$1,150
MANTANYA'S HOPE$1,000
ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND$1,000
ASOLO REPERTORY THEATER$500
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER$420
MARGATE CRICKET CLUB$250
COMPEER$250
ABRAMSON CANCER CENTER$250
SPECIAL OLYMPICS FL$200
SMILE TRAIN$200
AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY$200
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 6%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 31% of Gerald and Deborah Hamburg Family’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Gerald and Deborah Hamburg Familylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.8% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your 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
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
2
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

3
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
4
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
5
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
8
International Myeloma Foundation

Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.

Unclassified
9
The Foundation for Aids Research

Amfar is dedicated to ending the global aids epidemic through innovative research. (see schedule o)

Health
10
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
11
The Jackson Laboratory

The purposes of the laboratory are scientific, medical, charitable, and educational. our mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the biomedical community.

Health
12
University of Miami

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

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is Matanya's Hope. 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 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr15%29%20–35yr9%29%35–55yr12%43%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr15%10%20–35yr9%28%35–55yr12%61%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
17%
17,089/103,021

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

22 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. 22 of the 40 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
19/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL — $4,525 · OtherTEMPLE BETH ISRAELIndividual grant recipient — $1,550 · OtherIndividual grant recipientASOLO REPERTORY THEATER — $500 · OtherASOLO REPERTORY THEATER+24 more — $2,604 · Other+24 moreTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC — $7,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-…Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc — $2,800 · Arts & CultureSarasota Ballet of …Sarasota Opera Association Inc — $1,150 · Arts & CultureSarasota Opera Asso…MATANYA'S HOPE — $1,000 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $75 · EducationISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $1,000 · Human ServicesBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $420 · HealthRESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME FOUNDATION — $135 · HealthBREAST HEALTH SARASOTA INC — $100 · HealthUNITED BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $25 · Health+1 more — $20 · HealthAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $200 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $100 · International
Other$9,179Philanthropy$7,000Arts & Culture$3,950Education$1,075Human Services$1,000Health$700International$300

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 budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc — $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSarasota Opera Association Inc — $1,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMATANYA'S HOPE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $420 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMETHYST HOUSE INC — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOC OF STATE TROOPERS — $145 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME FOUNDATION — $135 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST HEALTH SARASOTA INC — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World Action Fund — $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING — $65 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKeystone Paralyzed Veterans of America Inc — $56 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $20 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN8.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Gerald and Deborah Hamburg Family 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.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 40 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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