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Grunebaum Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$42k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 96% of GRUNEBAUM FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $280
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$173k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$22,180
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CONGREGATION SHERITH ISRAEL$10,000
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE$180
ORTHODOX UNION$100
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 (FY17–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE BLUE CARD: $3k → 17%THE BLUE CARD: $3k → 17%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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$196k · 11 repeat orgs$367k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
9

Total granted

$196k
$357k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+39%

Still filing today

36%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHealthInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    8× · 2017–2025 · $119k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    9× · 2017–2025 · $17k
  • AC
    AMERICAN COMMITTEE SHAARE ZEDEK MED
    2× · 2017–2018 · $11k

Funded once

  • VC
    VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT
    one grant, 2017 · $348k
  • CS
    CONGREGATION SHEARITH ISRAEL
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • H
    HADASSAH
    one grant, 2017 · $2k

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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

2
University of Judaism Foundation
3
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
4
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
5
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
6
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

To promote, encourage, aid and advance higher and secondary education, research and training in all branches of knowledge. as the standard bearer of excellence, the university strives to ensure and foster outstanding achievements in all…

Education
7
Chabad of Columbia University

To educate jewish students based on chabad chassidic philosophy, advance their understanding of jewish ideas and foster their jewishness.

8
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
9
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life At the Penn State University

To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…

10
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
11
American Friends of Rabbinical College Netiv Hadaat Inc

To support, benefit, and assist yeshivat netiv hadaat- jerusalem

Education
12
Jerusalem University College

Jerusalem University College creates opportunities for students to deepen their knowledge of God and His Word through immersive study of the ancient and modern contexts of Israel and the surrounding regions, equipping them for academia,…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rabbinical Council of America. 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

8 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. 8 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT — $347,899 · OtherVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENTIndividual grant recipient — $119,360 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+13 more — $72,940 · Other+13 moreJEFFERSON HEALTH CORPORATION F/K/A ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK — $10,500 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $5,500 · InternationalTHE BLUE CARD INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $750 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY — $613 · EducationCOLUMBIABARNARD HILLEL INC — $750 · ReligionRABBINICAL COUNCIL OF AMERICA — $500 · ReligionUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $301 · Philanthropy
Other$540,199Health$10,500International$5,500Human Services$5,000Education$1,363Religion$1,250Philanthropy$301

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 budgetJEFFERSON HEALTH CORPORATION F/K/A ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK — $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLUE CARD INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBIABARNARD HILLEL INC — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY — $613 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRABBINICAL COUNCIL OF AMERICA — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $301 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 JEFFERSON HEALTH CORPORATION F/K/A ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds THE BLUE CARD INC
  • Who funds COLUMBIABARNARD HILLEL INC
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds RABBINICAL COUNCIL OF AMERICA
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Grunebaum 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Grunebaum Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Grunebaum 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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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