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Jephson Educational Trust #2 Xxxxx1004

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.

$487k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$127k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Education$1.8MArts & Culture$1.6MScience & Tech$120kHealth$114kHuman Services$80kReligion$30kSocial Science$25k
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $292k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $127k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$8.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KEUKA COLLEGE$127,000
Metropolitan Opera Association$30,000
New York Philharmonic- Symphony Society$20,000
Long Trail School Inc$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND$20,000
American Composers Orchestra Inc$20,000
Bach Choir of Bethlehem$17,500
Norwich University$15,000
NATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE$15,000
Seeing Eye$14,400
Midland Adult Services Inc$10,000
UNION COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY$10,000
Elmira College$10,000
New York Public Library$10,000
NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF$10,000
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 (FY18–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Midland Adult Services Inc: $10k → 5%Midland Adult Services Inc: $10k → 5%Midland Adult Services Inc: $10k → 5%Midland Adult Services Inc: $10k → 5%Midland Adult Services Inc: $10k → 5%Midland Adult Services Inc: $10k → 5%Midland Adult Services Inc: $10k → 5%Midland Adult Services Inc: $10k → 5%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

VT
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
KY
MD
KS
NC

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.7M · 51 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
4

Total granted

$3.7M
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+10%

Still filing today

76%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • KC
    KEUKA COLLEGE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $227k · revenue +3%
  • AC
    AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $140k · revenue +21%
  • MS
    MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $105k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • RI
    Rochester Institute for Technology
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • UC
    UNION COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • MM
    MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -2%

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
Manhattanville University

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

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
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
4
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

6
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
7
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
8
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
9
Macalester College

Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.

Education
10
Randolph College Inc

See detailed description of organization's primary mission provided on schedule o

Education
11
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
12
Mcdaniel College Inc

Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berklee College of Music Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blue Rock School. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Independent K-12 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and ShelterLocal History MuseumsCommunity Arts CentersPublic Library OperationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
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 74 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%7%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%80%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%8%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%79%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/47
the rest of the field
10%
11,857/120,713

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

45 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. 45 of the 59 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
25/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CAZENOVIA COLLEGE — $445,000 · EducationCAZENOVIA COLLEGEKEUKA COLLEGE — $227,000 · EducationKEUKA COLLEGELONG TRAIL SCHOOL — $140,000 · EducationLONG TRAIL SCHOOLALICE LLOYD COLLEGE — $90,000 · EducationALICE LLOYD COLLEGETHE CLARKE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF CLARKE SCHOOLS FOR HEARING AND SPEECH — $80,000 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $80,000 · EducationWELLS COLLEGE — $65,500 · EducationELMIRA COLLEGE — $62,990 · EducationPREP FOR PREP — $60,000 · Education+18 more — $343,600 · Education+18 moreMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $240,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Association …AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC — $140,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA IN…BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM — $117,500 · Arts & CultureBACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEMMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC — $105,000 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSICINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $105,000 · Arts & CultureINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTSMuseum of Modern Art — $80,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern ArtST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INCCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC — $45,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $40,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureMASTERVOICES INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureNew York Philharmonic- Symphony Society — $160,000 · OtherNew York Philharmonic- Symph…Boston Conservatory — $135,000 · OtherBoston ConservatoryUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE — $120,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND ST…NATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE — $105,000 · OtherNATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTEThe Carnegie Hall Society Inc — $80,000 · OtherThe Carnegie Hall Society In…NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF — $60,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OFTHIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL — $50,000 · OtherBLUE ROCK SCHOOL — $40,000 · OtherTHE NAUMBURG ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS INC — $40,000 · Other+8 more — $169,000 · Other+8 moreTHE SEEING EYE INC — $84,400 · Human ServicesMIDLAND ADULT SERVICES INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesJBI INTERNATIONAL INC — $30,000 · Health
Education$1,594,090Arts & Culture$1,052,500Other$959,000Human Services$164,400Health$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAZENOVIA COLLEGE — $445,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $240,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKEUKA COLLEGE — $227,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLONG TRAIL SCHOOL — $140,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC — $140,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetBACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM — $117,500 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC — $105,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $105,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE — $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC — $84,400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLARKE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF CLARKE SCHOOLS FOR HEARING AND SPEECH — $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMIDLAND ADULT SERVICES INC — $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWELLS COLLEGE — $65,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetELMIRA COLLEGE — $62,990 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC — $60,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPREP FOR PREP — $60,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNorwich University — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC — $45,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CAMPHILL SCHOOL INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE ROCK SCHOOL — $40,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMASTERVOICES INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NAUMBURG ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS INC — $40,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetMount Saint Mary College — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJBI INTERNATIONAL INC — $30,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHLAND COLLEGE — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Law School — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBELOIT COLLEGE — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $5,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDE LA SALLE ACADEMY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADELPHI UNIVERSITY — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAZARETH UNIVERSITY — $2,500 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 CAZENOVIA COLLEGE
  • Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc
  • Who funds KEUKA COLLEGE
  • Who funds LONG TRAIL SCHOOL
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC
  • Who funds BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM
  • Who funds MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
  • Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
  • Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE
  • Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC
  • Who funds THE CLARKE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF CLARKE SCHOOLS FOR HEARING AND SPEECH
  • Who funds MIDLAND ADULT SERVICES INC
  • Who funds The Carnegie Hall Society Inc
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art
  • Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations
  • Who funds WELLS COLLEGE
  • Who funds ELMIRA COLLEGE
  • Who funds ST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC
  • Who funds PREP FOR PREP
  • Who funds Norwich University
  • Who funds CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds NEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY INC
  • Who funds THE CAMPHILL SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds BLUE ROCK SCHOOL
  • Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC
  • Who funds MASTERVOICES INC
  • Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC
  • Who funds THE NAUMBURG ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS INC
  • Who funds Mount Saint Mary College
  • Who funds JBI INTERNATIONAL 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.

Jephson Educational Trust #1 Xxxxx0006IL22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jephson Educational Trust #1 Xxxxx0006 · Ibm International Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · American Express Foundation · Wilkes-Desmond Educational Foundation · Gazin Norbert L Education Pfdn 101-0628960 · Jessie H Baker Educational Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc · Central New York Community 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 Jephson Educational Trust #2 Xxxxx1004 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Norwich University14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College11% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University11% of income from government
  • Midland Adult Services Inc7% of income from government
  • Vermont Law School1% of income from government
  • The Clarke School for the Deaf Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech1% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated0% of income from government
  • The Seeing Eye Inc0% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc0% of income from government
  • Long Trail School0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
16report 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, 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.

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How do I get to Jephson Educational Trust #2 Xxxxx1004?

Find your warmest path to Jephson Educational Trust #2 Xxxxx1004 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 59 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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