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Joseph and Sally Handleman Foundation Tr at a glance

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Joseph and Sally Handleman Foundation Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$375k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$515kCivil Rights$379kArts & Culture$351kHealth$247kInternational$226kCrime & Legal$131kReligion$119kHuman Services$118kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $250k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOWARD UNIVERSITY$75,000
ACLU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$50,000
JHU ALLIANCE FOR A HEALTHIER WORLD$25,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION$25,000
KQED INC$25,000
GLENDALE FIRE FOUNDATION$25,000
CONGREGATION KOL EMET$20,000
THE PEACE CENTER$20,000
AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BUCKS COUNTY$20,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$15,000
THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$15,000
SNIPES FARM & EDUCATION CENTER$15,000
Individual grant recipient$12,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$12,500
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OF FLORIDA$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SISTERHOOD OF SALAAM SHALOM: $12k → 7%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $25k → 14%THE PEACE CENTER: $27k → 6%THE PEACE CENTER: $20k → 6%THE PEACE CENTER: $15k → 6%THE PEACE CENTER: $12k → 6%THE PEACE CENTER: $10k → 6%THE PEACE CENTER: $10k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 6%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

NY
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
MS
AL
FL
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 29 repeat orgs$742k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
30

Total granted

$1.8M
$572k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
0%

Still filing today

72%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalArts & CultureCivil RightsEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $300k · revenue +2%
  • AA
    AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BUCKS COUNTY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $121k · revenue +372%
  • OC
    OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $120k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • AU
    ARCADIA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +23%
  • 1F
    1208 FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • WM
    WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $46k · revenue +36%
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
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
3
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
4
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
5
International Bridges to Justice

In recognition of the fundamental principles of the universal declaration of human rights, international bridges to justice (ibj) is dedicated to protecting the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries. specifically,…

Crime & Legal
6
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
7
The International Institute On Race Equality and Human Rights

The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…

International
8
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
9
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
10
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
11
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights
12
The Fund for Peace Inc

Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Last Chance for Animals. 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

47 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. 47 of the 67 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
25/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OF FLORIDA: $92,600 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OF FLORIDALegal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc: $77,200 · OtherLegal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc1208 FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Other1208 FOUNDATIONNAMASTACY FOUNDATION: $72,200 · OtherNAMASTACY FOUNDATIONMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $68,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $66,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODJHU ALLIANCE FOR A HEALTHIER WORLD: $65,000 · OtherJHU ALLIANCE FOR A HEALTHIER WORLDACLU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $50,000 · OtherJAFCO: $46,200 · Other+26 more: $429,100 · Other+26 moreTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $120,000 · EducationOCCIDENTAL COLLEGEARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationARCADIA UNIVERSITYSNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER: $55,500 · EducationSNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION…+1 more: $15,000 · EducationAFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BUCKS COUNTY: $121,000 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN AMERI…WHYY INC: $83,000 · Arts & CultureWHYY INCWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $46,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MO…KQED INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INCINSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $86,000 · InternationalThe Americ…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $41,500 · InternationalWORLD CENT…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $41,400 · InternationalFRIENDS OF…AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $25,000 · InternationalAMERICAN J…SEEDS OF PEACE INC: $15,000 · InternationalSEEDS OF P…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $12,500 · InternationalThe American Himalayan Foundation: $10,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $10,000 · InternationalANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $97,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $34,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC: $13,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $13,000 · Civil RightsTransgender Law Center: $12,000 · Civil RightsTHE PEACE CENTER INC: $94,000 · Human ServicesREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $25,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $21,800 · Human ServicesSISTERHOOD OF SALAAM SHALOM: $12,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $35,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $20,000 · Environment
Other$1,041,300Education$565,500Arts & Culture$300,000International$241,400Civil Rights$194,000Human Services$154,800Environment$55,000

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 budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BUCKS COUNTY: $121,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $97,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEACE CENTER INC: $94,000 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $86,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC: $83,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLegal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc: $77,200 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER: $55,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $46,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $41,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $41,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $34,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $26,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKQED INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $24,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASHA'S FARM SANCTUARY INC: $24,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $24,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $21,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $15,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGBSCIDP FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTOGETHER RISING: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSISTERHOOD OF SALAAM SHALOM: $12,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTransgender Law Center: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Himalayan Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLast Chance for Animals: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding America: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPHILL VILLAGE KIMBERTON HILLS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOff The Mat Into The World DBA OTM Off the Mat: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $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.

The Bank of America C…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Joseph and Sally Handleman Foundation Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph and Sally Handleman Foundation Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Homefront Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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How do I get to Joseph and Sally Handleman Foundation Tr?

Find your warmest path to Joseph and Sally Handleman Foundation Tr 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 67 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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