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Imago Dei Foundation Inc at a glance

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Imago Dei 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.

$110k
Granted FY2019
7
Grants FY2019
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

90% of Imago Dei Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Imago Dei Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $110k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’17
4
’18
5
’19
3
’20
2
’21
1
’22
3
’23
2
’24
1
’25

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

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.0MPhilanthropy$63kArts & Culture$27kHealth$18kEnvironment$13kReligion$10kScience & Tech$10kHuman Services$2k
02FY2019 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$12,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$118k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRINITY SCHOOL$50,000
GO PROJECT$15,000
TEACHING BEYOND THE SQUARE$15,000
CENTURION FOUNDATION$12,500
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$10,000
EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC$5,000
WESTCHESTER CHILDRENS MUSEUM$2,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BORED NO MORE: $2k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $215k → 22%FOUNDATION FOR PRADER WILLI: $5k → 14%THE HAMPTONS HEALTH SOCIETY: $5k → 7%WESTCHESTER CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $2k → 9%PS234 THE INDEPENDENCE SCHOOL: $3k → 17%THE GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%COIN CENTER INC: $10k → 14%GENE SPOTLIGHT: $3k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $20k → 22%CENTURION FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $15k → 22%CENTURION FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $215k → 22%CENTURION FOUNDATION: $13k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10k → 22%CENTURION FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10k → 22%NEW YORK CENTURION FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10k → 22%GO PROJECT: $78k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10k → 22%GO PROJECT: $62k → 17%EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC: $25k → 17%TEACHING BEYOND THE SQUARE: $15k → 17%TEACHING BEYOND THE SQUARE: $15k → 17%GO PROJECT: $15k → 17%TEACHING BEYOND THE SQUARE: $15k → 17%TEACHING BEYOND THE SQUARE: $10k → 17%GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $10k → 17%EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC: $5k → 17%THE GO PROJECT INC: $3k → 17%CITY SEMINAR OF NEW YORK: $10k → 17%TRINITY SCHOOL: $50k → 17%TRINITY SCHOOL: $50k → 17%TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $50k → 17%TRINITY SCHOOL: $50k → 17%TRINITY SCHOOL: $50k → 17%TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $25k → 17%BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $10k → 17%BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $3k → 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
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$592k · 7 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, 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

7
6

Total granted

$592k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+25%

Still filing today

86%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureScience & TechHealthOther
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

  • TE
    TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +12%
  • CF
    Centurion Foundation Inc
    4× · 2017–2021 · $63k · revenue +13%
  • TB
    TEACHING BEYOND THE SQUARE INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $55k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • GC
    GRACE CHURCH SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +25%
  • CS
    CITY SEMINAR OF NEW YORK
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR PRADER WILLI
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
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
2
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
3
Avery Coonley School

The Avery Coonley School elevates high-achieving and gifted learners through immersion in a mutually talented community where intellect, curiosity, and creativity are enhanced by optimal challenge.

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4
The Ideal School of Manhattan

An independent school providing a comprehensive educational program for children from K through 12th grade.

Education
5
The Grayson School

The grayson school provides gifted children a challenging, research-based education worthy of their intellect and their intrinsic desire to learn and think deeply. we serve as a valued resource for the gifted education community in…

Education
6
The Vincent Smith School

The Vincent Smith School is a co-ed, independent, special education school for grades ones through twelve, serving Nassau, Suffolk, and New York City students. The School specializes in students with various learning issues.

Education
7
Bronx Charter School for Better Learning

Bronx charter school for better learning provides its students with a solid foundation for academic success, through achievements that exceeds citywide averages and meets or exceeds new york state standards and national norms in all…

Education
8
Bronx Charter School for Excellence

Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…

Education
9
Brooklyn Charter School

Students are prepared to meet the needs of an ever changing technological and global society. we use the latest technology in our classrooms as an integral part of its curriculum approach. this approach is based on the latest research in…

Education
10
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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11
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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12
Manhattanville University

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Alliance Inc; the most unlike its peers is Centurion 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

12 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. 12 of the 19 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $505,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIATHE GO PROJECT INC: $157,470 · EducationTHE GO PROJECT INCTRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $75,000 · EducationTRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOLTEACHING BEYOND THE SQUARE INC: $55,000 · EducationTEACHING BEYOND THE SQUARE INC+2 more: $22,500 · EducationTRINITY SCHOOL: $200,000 · OtherTRINITY SCHOOLTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 · OtherTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE I…NEW YORK CENTURION FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherNEW YORK CENTURION FOUNDAT…CITY SEMINAR OF NEW YORK: $10,000 · Other+4 more: $14,000 · OtherCenturion Foundation Inc: $62,500 · PhilanthropyGENE SPOTLIGHT INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyCoin Center Inc: $10,000 · Science & TechTHE HAMPTONS HEALTH SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · HealthWESTCHESTER CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$814,970Other$279,000Philanthropy$65,500Science & Tech$10,000Health$5,000Arts & Culture$2,000

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $505,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GO PROJECT INC: $157,470 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetTRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenturion Foundation Inc: $62,500 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetTEACHING BEYOND THE SQUARE INC: $55,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoin Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HAMPTONS HEALTH SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetGENE SPOTLIGHT INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWESTCHESTER CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $2,000 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 FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY13.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Imago Dei Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Imago Dei Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Imago Dei Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Imago Dei 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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