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Jack and Sue Witkin Charitable Fdn

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.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$28kHuman Services$18kPublic Benefit$16kInternational$12kCivil Rights$11kReligion$11kAnimals$7kSocial Science$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$300
Median grant
10
States reached
$37k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND$1,000
THE SEEING EYE$1,000
MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION$700
BRAILLE INSTITUTE$500
WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS$500
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION$300
PUTNAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$300
MACULAR DEGENERATION ASSOCIATION$200
GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND$200
PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS$200
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$200
MUTTS WITH A MISSION$100
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY$83
UNITED STATES JUSTICE FOUNDATION$50
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, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND: $500 → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 9%THE SEEING EYE: $10k → 4%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 9%THE SEEING EYE: $2k → 4%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $500 → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $200 → 9%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 12%THE SEEING EYE: $1k → 4%EFAA: $3k → 12%THE SEEING EYE: $1k → 4%VIA MOBILITY SERVICES: $3k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%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

MN
IL
WI
NY
NV
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
AZ
NM
KS
DC
TX
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$81k · 26 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
49

Total granted

$81k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+12%

Still filing today

85%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsPublic BenefitCivil RightsOther

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

  • TS
    THE SEEING EYE INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +12%
  • WS
    WALKING STICK FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $11k · revenue +23%
  • GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -21%
  • WI
    WEIZMANN INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • AF
    ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +12%

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.

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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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2
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
3
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
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
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
6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture
8
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
9
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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12
The Institute of Navigation

Advancing the art and science of navigation, positioning, and timing. the institute of navigation (ion) is a membership organization incorporated in january 1967 for the purpose of advancing the art and science of navigation through…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Als Worldwide. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity FoundationsJewish Community Organizati…Cancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Military Veterans SupportSchool District FoundationsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Environmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyFood Banks and PantriesSenior Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%41%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/68
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,497

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

65 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 82 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/65
Grantees still filing
48/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE SEEING EYE INC — $13,500 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INCGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $9,500 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INCEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION — $2,500 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE …Via Mobility Services — $2,500 · Human ServicesVia Mobility ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $2,200 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND I…+4 more — $2,000 · Human Services+4 moreWEIZMANN INSTITUTE — $5,000 · OtherWEIZMANN INSTITUTEASCPA — $2,950 · OtherASCPAMEALS ON WHEELS — $2,500 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELSWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS — $2,500 · OtherWORLD JEWISH CONGRESSAMERICANS 4 ISRAEL — $2,500 · OtherAMERICANS 4 ISRAELBOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERWEISMANN — $1,500 · OtherPROJECT K-9 HERO — $1,500 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $3,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUECOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC — $2,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC+34 more — $16,068 · Other+34 moreWALKING STICK FOUNDATION — $10,500 · Arts & CultureWALKING STICK…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $2,700 · Arts & CultureThe United St…THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION — $1,200 · Arts & CultureTHE DAILY CAL…SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENT…+2 more — $534 · Arts & CultureJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $4,500 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL W…SEMPER K9 ASSISTANCE DOGS — $2,300 · Public BenefitSEMPER K9 …THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $1,900 · Public BenefitTHE HERITA…PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $1,900 · Public BenefitPAWS FOR P…CATO INSTITUTE — $1,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTI…Leadership Institute — $700 · Public BenefitLeadership…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $6,500 · InternationalAMERICAN F…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER — $5,000 · InternationalAMERICAN F…ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $3,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $2,200 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $2,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $700 · HealthMacular Degeneration Association — $500 · HealthALS WORLDWIDE — $500 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $500 · Health+3 more — $800 · HealthMUTTS WITH A MISSION — $3,300 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC — $1,250 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $1,000 · AnimalsMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $700 · AnimalsNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR RESCUED ANIMALS DBA TIGER CREEK ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $500 · Animals+1 more — $200 · Animals
Human Services$32,200Other$40,018Arts & Culture$15,934Public Benefit$12,300International$11,500Health$10,200Animals$6,950

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC — $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWALKING STICK FOUNDATION — $10,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUTTS WITH A MISSION — $3,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $2,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVia Mobility Services — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER K9 ASSISTANCE DOGS — $2,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $1,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $1,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION — $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens United Foundation — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercatus Center Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST NORBERT COLLEGE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM WATCH INC CENTER FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCops Direct — $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute — $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMacular Degeneration Association — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALS WORLDWIDE — $500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ASHBROOK CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR RESCUED ANIMALS DBA TIGER CREEK ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF BOULDER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBNAI BRITH DENVER LODGE 171 — $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF COLORADO — $500 over 2y, 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.

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.

Farrell Family Founda…Ebs FoundationJohn P & Kathryn G Ev…Seckinger Foundation …Bailey Family Foundat…Bradley Impact Fund I…The Denver FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Baird Foundation IncVerizon FoundationThe Bank of America C…
Farrell Family FoundationCA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Farrell Family Foundation · Ebs Foundation · John P & Kathryn G Evans Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Bailey Family Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Denver Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Jack and Sue Witkin Charitable Fdn 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
7report 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

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.

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How do I get to Jack and Sue Witkin Charitable Fdn?

Find your warmest path to Jack and Sue Witkin Charitable Fdn 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 82 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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