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Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Charitable Fund Inc

ESTABLISHED TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IMPACTED BY UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES AS WELL AS PROVIDE FUNDS TO RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS.

$7k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172024.

Education$550kHealth$310kPhilanthropy$100kInternational$100kHuman Services$26kOther$37k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$249k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St John the Evangelist Church$7,000
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 (FY21–21, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHILTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $26k → 4%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 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.

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St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health
2
Long Island Community Hospital At Nyu Langone Health

The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…

3
Bridgeport Hospital Foundation Inc

To support bridgeport hospital by, in large part, fundraising, and further, to fund and promote activities of the yale new haven health system, the integrated health care delivery system of which it is a part.

Health
4
St Joseph's Foundation

To raise funds and provide support services for patient care, medical education, community outreach, research, and care for those in need at dignity health, dba st. joseph's hospital and medical center.

Human Services
5
Jersey City Medical Center

The organization's mission is to offer healthcare services with compassion and dignity. the organization provides patients, their families and all in need, excellence in hospital and healthcare services and programs to enhance community…

Health
6
St Charles Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

7
Capital Health-East Trenton Inc (Fka St Francis Medical Center Trenton Nj)

To improve the health and well-being of the populations we serve in urban and suburban communities.

Health
8
Cooper University Hospital Cape Regional Inc

Cape regional medical center merged with the cooper health system, camden, new jersey (chs) in july of 2024. cooper university hospital cape regional, inc. ("crmc") is a general medical and surgical acute care hospital located in cape may…

Health
9
Jewish Hospital & St Mary's Healthcare Inc

To bring hope, improve health and change lives. inspired by our catholic and jewish faith heritage, we serve with a spirit of innovation and collaboration, transform health care delivery, partner to create healthy communities and advocate…

Health
10
Concord Hospital - Franklin

CH-Franklin is a charitable organization which exists to meet the health needs of individuals within the communities it serves.

Health
11
Trinity Hospital Twin City

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

12
Community Medical Center

The organization, a not-for-profit acute care hospital serving the ocean county region, is committed to enhancing the overall health status of the community by providing the highest quality healthcare and related services including…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Valley Hospital Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Imaginate Foundation Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $300,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW …THE IMAGINATE FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · EducationTHE IMAGINATE FOUNDATION INCTHE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · HealthTHE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION …St Joseph's Hospital Inc — $35,000 · HealthSt Joseph's Hospital IncELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · HealthELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INCCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $100,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY …Central Fund of Israel — $100,000 · InternationalCentral Fu…UNITED WAY OF BERGEN COUNTY — $25,000 · OtherSt John the Evangelist Church — $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherChilton Medical Center Foundation Inc — $26,300 · Human Services
Education$550,000Health$310,000Philanthropy$100,000International$100,000Other$37,000Human Services$26,300

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 TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE IMAGINATE FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSt Joseph's Hospital Inc — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChilton Medical Center Foundation Inc — $26,300 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BERGEN COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Charitable Fund 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • St Joseph's Hospital Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Charitable Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Charitable Fund 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 11 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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