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Jacob Abramson Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICAGO SINAI CONGREGATION | $7,100 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA | $2,000 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL OF BEVERLY HILLS | $1,500 |
| DREAM STREET FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| LYNNE COHEN FDN FOR OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH | $1,000 |
| KECK MED CENTER USC | $1,000 |
| CONGREGATION ANSHEI ISRAEL | $1,000 |
| HAPPY TRAILS FOR KIDS | $1,000 |
| TU NIDITO CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| CENTER FOR LIFE AND LEARNING FOURTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $600 |
| ARIZONA THEATER CO | $500 |
| WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF SEMEL INSTITUTE | $500 |
| WORLD POSSIBLE | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
HAPPY TRAILS FOR KIDS3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +192%- UIUNITED IN HARMONY3× · 2017–2019 · $800 · revenue +87%
- BHBeverly Hills Womens Club3× · 2017–2019 · $750 · revenue +23%
Funded once
- TBTEMPLE BETH ELone grant, 2017 · $250
- RPREID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $200 · revenue +199%
- BIBrandworkers International Incone grant, 2017 · $150 · revenue -70%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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The waverly school is a nonsectarian, coeducational, college preparatory progressive day school that spans preschool through high school. it is fully accredited by the western association of school and colleges and the california…
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…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The jewish women's archive documents jewish women's stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change.jwa is dedicated to expanding and transforming the historical narrative by restoring jewish women and gender…
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Happy Trails for Kids and the most unlike its peers is World Possible. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 TU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds HAPPY TRAILS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds DREAM STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN GROUPS ↗
- Who funds LYNNE COHEN FOUNDATION FOR OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds UNITED IN HARMONY ↗
- Who funds MILLS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Beverly Hills Womens Club ↗
- Who funds WORLD POSSIBLE ↗
- Who funds THE GREGORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds INVISIBLE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds REID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Brandworkers International Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · American Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Jacob Abramson Foundation 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.
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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