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Gerard and Ruth Daniel Foundation 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.

$363k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$450kPhilanthropy$371kEducation$320kHuman Services$219kInternational$77kPublic Benefit$73kArts & Culture$55kCivil Rights$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $195k
$3,600
Median grant
14
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Accelerate Change$65,000
Notley Impact$65,000
Focus for Democracy$65,000
Friends of the Daniel Centers$30,000
Hebrew Union College$25,000
JFCS of SF Marin$20,000
Temple Sinai$9,000
Ct College$8,000
J Street Education Fund$5,670
Yiddish Book Center$5,000
Ritter Center$5,000
Friends of the IMPJ$5,000
Union for Reform Judaism$5,000
Ceche - The National Food Museum$4,800
Individual grant recipient$4,353
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 (FY18–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women: $1k → 14%Young Center: $2k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES (SAN FRANCISCO): $15k → 10%Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women: $1k → 14%New Futures: $750 → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
ID
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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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 39% of Gerard and Ruth Daniel Foundation Inc’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. Read by recipient address, 16% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 2% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Gerard and Ruth Daniel Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 19% 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 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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 43 repeat orgs$463k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
40

Total granted

$1.0M
$245k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+40%

Still filing today

35%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k 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
InternationalEducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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

  • JS
    J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +40%
  • CC
    CONNECTICUT COLLEGE
    3× · 2018–2023 · $20k · revenue +9%
  • NY
    NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • SC
    SCHWAB CHARITABLE GIVING
    one grant, 2019 · $47k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE DANIEL CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $22k

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
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

2
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
3
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
4
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

5
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

6
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
7
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
8
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
9
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
10
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…

Community Improvement
11
Jews of Color Initiative

The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…

Civil Rights
12
Jewish Film Institute

The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network and the most unlike its peers is The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyGovernment Accountability R…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Hospice Care ServicesNative Hawaiian Community D…Land Conservation Organizat…Community Health CentersUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Public University Foundatio…Jewish Community Federations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%9%<5yr14%15%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%39%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 9% 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%0/49
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,516

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.

05the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 100 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
25/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION — $185,200 · OtherHEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGIONFriends of the Daniel Centers — $174,100 · OtherFriends of the Daniel CentersRALPH M DANIEL CHARITABLE (SCHWAB CHARITABLE) — $78,400 · OtherRALPH M DANIEL CHARITABLE (SCHWAB CHARITABLE)ACCELERATE CHANGE — $65,000 · OtherTEMPLE SINAI — $56,334 · OtherUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM — $53,520 · OtherSCHWAB CHARITABLE GIVING — $47,400 · OtherJFCS of SF Marin — $43,000 · Other+66 more — $518,497 · Other+66 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $96,400 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $5,100 · Philanthropy+1 more — $3,000 · PhilanthropyNOTLEY IMPACT — $65,000 · EducationCONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $20,300 · EducationChildren First Inc — $11,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Education+3 more — $4,000 · EducationFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $89,500 · Community ImprovementFOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND — $65,000 · Civil RightsSEEDS OF PEACE INC — $17,000 · InternationalHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA — $10,500 · InternationalFriends of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism — $10,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $4,000 · InternationalTHE IDI FOUNDATION INC FKA AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEMOC — $3,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND — $2,500 · InternationalISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $2,000 · InternationalSANTA BARBARA PUERTO VALLARTA SISTER CITY COMMITTEE — $2,000 · InternationalNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $6,800 · Arts & CultureLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum — $1,800 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $120 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,221,451Philanthropy$114,500Education$110,300Community Improvement$89,500Civil Rights$65,000International$53,500Arts & Culture$28,720

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $96,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $89,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND — $65,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNOTLEY IMPACT — $65,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $26,770 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $20,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC — $17,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren First Inc — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA — $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism — $10,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetCRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES DBA SIERRA COMMUNITY HOUSE — $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $6,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVNA FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $5,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRITTER CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IDI FOUNDATION INC FKA AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEMOC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA — $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA PUERTO VALLARTA SISTER CITY COMMITTEE — $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE HOPE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DANIEL CENTERS FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM — $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEVADA COUNTY CITIZENS FOR CHOICE — $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE SPEEDY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTruckee Trails Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIsrael 21c — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW FUTURES — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC — $120 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.

  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND
  • Who funds FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND
  • Who funds NOTLEY IMPACT
  • Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE
  • Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC
  • Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES
  • Who funds Children First Inc
  • Who funds HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA
  • Who funds Friends of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES DBA SIERRA COMMUNITY HOUSE
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC

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.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA22.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Impactassetsinc · American Endowment Foundation · American Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The San Francisco Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community 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 Gerard and Ruth Daniel Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Children First Inc100% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc2% of income from government
  • Connecticut College0% of income from government
  • The Johns Hopkins Hospital0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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How do I get to Gerard and Ruth Daniel Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Gerard and Ruth Daniel Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 100 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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