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Henry Greenspan Foundation at a glance

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Henry Greenspan Foundation

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.

$9k
Granted FY2020
17
Grants FY2020
6
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

76% of Henry Greenspan Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to New Israel Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Henry Greenspan Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $9k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’17
7
’18
3
’19
10
’20
3
’21
1
’22
1
’24

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

01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$20kInternational$19kHealth$15kArts & Culture$10kCivil Rights$5kEducation$3kReligion$2kPhilanthropy$700Other$0
02FY2020 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300
Median grant
6
States reached
$98k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND$3,000
U-MICHIGAN-BLADDER CANCER RESEARCH FUND$1,000
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ANN ARBOR$1,000
OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITURE$500
TURIMIQUIRE FOUNDATION$500
NEXTBOOK INC$500
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$500
SALVATION ARMY$350
ANN ARBOR CIVIC THEATER$300
THE FORWARD NEWSPAPER FOUNDATION$200
THEATRE NOVA$200
BRIDGE MICHIGAN FOUNDATION$200
Individual grant recipient$200
RATTLE FOUNDATION$200
THE SUN PUBLISHING COMPANY$200
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TURIMIQUIRE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%THE MARSH THEATER: $360 → 10%RATTLE FOUNDATION: $200 → 14%SOUSA MENDES FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%THE FORWARD NEWSPAPER FOUNDATION: $200 → 17%US Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3k → 14%JEWISH SENIOR LIFE OF METRO DETROIT: $500 → 8%MINERVA PROJECT: $750 → 14%U-MICHIGAN DEARBORNVOICE VISION HOLOCAUST ARCHIVE: $2k → 21%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $1k → 18%RACINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%THE SUN PUBLISHING COMPANY: $200 → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GHETTO FIGHTERS HOUSE MUSEUM: $1k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA CHARLOTTESVILLE: $1k → 8%SOUTHERN VERMONT ASTRONOMERS: $200 → 9%PHILIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $1k → 5%TURIMIQUIRE FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY LA: $500 → 14%NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $3k → 17%US Holocaust Memorial Museum: $360 → 14%HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER OF MICHIGAN: $500 → 8%MINERVA PROJECT: $500 → 14%U-MICHIGAN DEARBORNVOICE VISION HOLOCAUST ARCHIVE: $1k → 21%TURIMIQUIRE FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%NEXTBOOK INC: $500 → 17%INVISIBLE CIVICS: $5k → 14%SALVATION ARMY: $350 → 14%U-MICHIGAN-BLADDER CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $1k → 21%TURIMIQUIRE FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%ST MARK'S ON CAPITOL HILL: $1k → 14%ANN ARBOR CIVIC THEATER: $300 → 14%U-MICHIGAN DEARBORNVOICE VISION HOLOCAUST ARCHIVE: $500 → 21%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $20k → 14%SALVATION ARMY: $200 → 14%CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY: $500 → 14%HURON VALLEY AMBULANCE: $1k → 14%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ANN ARBOR: $1k → 14%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ANN ARBOR: $1k → 14%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ANN ARBOR: $1k → 14%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ANN ARBOR: $1k → 14%OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITURE: $500 → 14%HUMAN SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY: $300 → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $1k → 14%EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $500 → 14%UNIVERSITY OS MICHIGANWEISSKOPF ENDOWMWMENT FUND: $400 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WI
MI
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
DC
AL
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
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25k · 8 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

$25k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+26%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalPublic BenefitCrime & LegalHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    4× · 2019–2024 · $9k · revenue +140%
  • CS
    CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ANN ARBOR
    4× · 2018–2021 · $4k · revenue +25%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +23%
  • HV
    HURON VALLEY AMBULANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +26%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA CHARLOTTESVILLE
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

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.

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
The Conversationalist
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3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
Manhattanville University

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

Education
5
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
8
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
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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11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rattle 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

18 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. 18 of the 39 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCNEW ISRAEL FUND: $18,500 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUNDUniversity of Michigan: $9,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ANN ARBOR: $4,000 · OtherCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ANN ARBORU-MICHIGAN DEARBORNVOICE VISION HOLOCAUST ARCHIVE: $3,500 · OtherU-MICHIGAN DEARBORNVOICE VISION HOLOCAUST ARCHIV…TURIMIQUIRE FOUNDATION: $2,500 · OtherTURIMIQUIRE FOUNDATIONMINERVA PROJECT: $1,250 · Other+22 more: $10,710 · Other+22 moreThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,860 · Arts & CultureANN ARBOR CIVIC THEATRE INC: $300 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE NOVA: $200 · Arts & CultureRATTLE FOUNDATION: $200 · Arts & CultureNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $3,000 · Civil RightsPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $1,030 · EducationEASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $500 · EducationSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 · Crime & LegalHURON VALLEY AMBULANCE: $1,000 · Health
International$38,500Other$35,960Arts & Culture$3,560Civil Rights$3,000Education$1,530Crime & Legal$1,000Health$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $18,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $9,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ANN ARBOR: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,860 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $1,030 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEXTBOOK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRACINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANN ARBOR CIVIC THEATRE INC: $300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirls on the Run of Southeastern Michigan: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRATTLE FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ANN ARBOR ↗
  • Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HURON VALLEY AMBULANCE ↗
  • Who funds NEXTBOOK INC ↗
  • Who funds RACINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY ↗
  • Who funds EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANN ARBOR CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds Girls on the Run of Southeastern Michigan ↗
  • Who funds THEATRE NOVA ↗
  • Who funds RATTLE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Ann Arbor Area Commun…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ann Arbor Area Community FoundationMI15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Henry Greenspan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry Greenspan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 39 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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