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Harold Plotnek Charitable Foundatio

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.

$28k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$151kHealth$58kArts & Culture$34kEnvironment$25kReligion$3kCivil Rights$3kInternational$3kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$493k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE BASS INC$10,000
GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE$7,500
TULANE UNIVERSITY$2,500
GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION$2,500
MONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC$1,000
INSIGHT THROUGH EDUCATION INC$1,000
CHARLES E SMITH LIFE COMMUNITIES$1,000
ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATI$1,000
HEALTH IN THE HOOD INC$1,000
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 (FY17–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DEBBIE'S DREAM FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%HEALTH IN THE HOOD INC: $1k → 15%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $1k → 8%MONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC: $6k → 8%MONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC: $1k → 8%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

NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
LA
GA
FL

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$221k · 17 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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16

Total granted

$221k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+39%

Still filing today

65%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureSocial ScienceInternationalOther

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

  • SH
    SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +44%
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    4× · 2019–2022 · $16k · revenue +23%
  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • CN
    CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • US
    UNITED STATES HOLOCAST MEMORIAL MUS
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • GT
    GEORGIA TECH
    one grant, 2017 · $5k

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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
5
Johns Hopkins University

The mission of the johns hopkins university is to educate its students and cultivate their capacity for life-long learning, to foster independent and original research, and to bring the benefits of discovery to the world.

Education
6
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
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
9
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Suburban Hospital Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bender Jcc of Greater Washington. 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

18 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. 18 of the 37 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)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND — $46,250 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLANDUNIVERSITY OF VA — $28,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VASUNY COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL — $17,000 · OtherSUNY COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTALGARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE — $7,500 · OtherCHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY — $7,000 · Other+14 more — $43,871 · Other+14 moreThe George Washington University — $16,000 · EducationThe George Washington…BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $16,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITYTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $13,500 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF…Rochester Institute of Technology — $7,500 · EducationRochester Institute o…+1 more — $1,000 · EducationSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · HealthSUBURBAN HOSPITAL…HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $9,000 · HealthHEBREW HOME OF GR…HOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION — $4,000 · HealthHOPE FOR HENRY FO…+1 more — $500 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureINSIGHT THROUGH EDUCATION INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureMONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesDEBBIE'S DREAM FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Human ServicesHEALTH IN THE HOOD INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $1,000 · Human ServicesALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $6,000 · Social ScienceGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $2,500 · PhilanthropyART OVER HATE COLLECTIVE INC F/K/N ARTISTS 4 ISRAEL INC — $1,500 · International
Other$150,121Education$54,000Health$43,500Arts & Culture$22,000Human Services$10,000Social Science$6,000Philanthropy$2,500International$1,500

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 budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe George Washington University — $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $13,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSIGHT THROUGH EDUCATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetART OVER HATE COLLECTIVE INC F/K/N ARTISTS 4 ISRAEL INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEBBIE'S DREAM FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $500 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 SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds The George Washington University
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
  • Who funds HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC
  • Who funds INSIGHT THROUGH EDUCATION INC
  • Who funds ART OVER HATE COLLECTIVE INC F/K/N ARTISTS 4 ISRAEL INC
  • Who funds THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC
  • Who funds DEBBIE'S DREAM FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HEALTH IN THE HOOD INC
  • Who funds BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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.

The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable FoundationMD13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Harold Plotnek Charitable Foundatio 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 · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Brandeis University9% of income from government
  • Bender Jcc of Greater Washington1% of income from government
  • Health in the Hood Inc1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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

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How do I get to Harold Plotnek Charitable Foundatio?

Find your warmest path to Harold Plotnek Charitable Foundatio 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 37 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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