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Halis Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Halis Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’18
11
’19
0
’20
9
’21
2
’22
1
’23
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’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$11MEducation$2.3MPublic Benefit$408kInternational$350kYouth Development$150kArts & Culture$115kCrime & Legal$35kFood & Nutrition$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,400,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$2,400,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MIT: $388k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $3.4M → 17%PROJECT VILLAGE GUATEMALA FOUNDATION: $117k → 12%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $2.4M → 17%SEE ATTACHMENT B: $1.8M → 17%SEE STATEMENT A: $1.6M → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Jobsfirstnyc

Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.

Youth Development
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Justice Innovation Inc

The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.

Crime & Legal
3
The Urban Assembly Inc

To advance students' economic and social mobility by improving public education.

International
4
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
5
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
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Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
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American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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11
Council of Independent Colleges

The council of independent colleges is an association of nonprofit independent colleges and universities, state- based councils of independent colleges, and other higher education affiliates, that works to support college and university…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Facing History & Ourselves Inc; the most unlike its peers is Project Village Guatemala Foundation. 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

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $11,283,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND+2 more: $110,000 · PhilanthropyMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,100,000 · EducationMassachusetts Ins…UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Education+3 more: $71,000 · EducationMIT: $388,453 · OtherProject Prakash: $50,000 · OtherNEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $25,000 · OtherCOMMITTEE FOR A RESPONSIBLE FEDERAL BUDGET: $20,000 · Other+8 more: $50,210 · OtherPROJECT VILLAGE GUATEMALA FOUNDATION: $350,205 · HealthBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $100,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC: $25,000 · HealthFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureFrom The Heart Productions: $15,000 · Arts & CultureGirl Scouts of Greater NY Inc: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentROCA INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INC: $30,000 · International
Philanthropy$11,393,000Education$2,271,000Other$533,663Health$475,205Arts & Culture$115,000Youth Development$60,000International$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $11,283,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT VILLAGE GUATEMALA FOUNDATION: $350,205 over 4y, 34% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR CHARITABLE SUPPORT INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater NY Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR A RESPONSIBLE FEDERAL BUDGET: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING TREATMENT AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALGEBRA PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundCarnegie Corporation …Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY16.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Halis Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Halis Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Halis Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Halis Family Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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