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Lester Poretsky Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Lester Poretsky Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$270k
Granted FY2024still arriving
160
Grants FY2024still arriving
28
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$452kEnvironment$290kHealth$275kEducation$229kFood & Nutrition$222kHuman Services$164kHousing & Shelter$127kCivil Rights$109kOther$0
02FY2024 · 160 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
28
States reached
$538k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCONN FOUNDATION - HONORS PROGRAM VERGANO INSTITUTE FOR INCLUSION NIEC SUR$8,000
ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE (APPALACHIA STUDENTS)$7,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$6,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$6,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
BREAD FOR THE CITY$5,000
TYREE AME CHURCH$5,000
BILLY O SMITH SCHOLARSHIP FUND$5,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
MANNA FOOD CENTER$5,000
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK$5,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
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 (FY17–24, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Mission of Mercy: $2k → 6%Mission of Mercy: $2k → 6%Mission of Mercy: $2k → 6%Mission of Mercy: $2k → 6%YOUTH VILLAGES: $1k → 17%House of Ruth Maryland: $3k → 19%House of Ruth Maryland: $1k → 19%House of Ruth Maryland: $1k → 19%House of Ruth Maryland: $1k → 19%CHARITYWATER: $1k → 17%CHARITYWATER: $1k → 17%CHARITYWATER: $1k → 17%CHARITYWATER: $1k → 17%CHARITYWATER: $1k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $1k → 17%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $9k → 8%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $9k → 8%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $7k → 8%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $6k → 8%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $6k → 8%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 8%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS - MCCH: $5k → 8%Montgomery Hospice: $2k → 8%Montgomery Hospice: $2k → 8%Montgomery Hospice: $2k → 8%Montgomery Hospice: $2k → 8%Montgomery Hospice: $2k → 8%Covenant House: $2k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%Covenant House: $1k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $2k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $2k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $2k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $1k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $1k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $1k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $1k → 17%World Food Program USA: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%World Food Program USA: $2k → 14%World Food Program USA: $2k → 14%World Food Program USA: $1k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $1k → 14%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

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 207 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

207 repeat relationships: 132 still active in FY2024, 75 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

207
67

Total granted

$2.1M
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+5%

Still filing today

79%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsCivil RightsOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +98%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +41%
  • BF
    BREAD FOR THE CITY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $52k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • AL
    Alice Lloyd College (Appalachin students)
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • UF
    Uconn Foundation - Honors Program, Vergano Institute for Inclusion, The Center for Neurodiversity Innovation and Employment, SURE Scholarship
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • AF
    American Friends of Magen David Adom - Hamas terrorist attack
    one grant, 2023 · $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.

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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
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
3
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
4
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
5
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
6
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
7
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
8
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
9
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
10
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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11
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
12
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fort Dupont Ice Hockey Foundation. 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

210 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 210 of the 293 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
210/210
Grantees still filing
159/210
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS: $35,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · OtherMANNA FOOD CENTER - MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $31,100 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $28,500 · Other+104 more: $725,000 · Other+104 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $75,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERE…International Rescue Committee INC: $51,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Co…Mercy Corps: $40,300 · InternationalMercy CorpsCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $29,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTA…Save The Children Federation Inc: $24,800 · InternationalSave The Children Feder…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $20,000 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 · InternationalWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $18,600 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $17,700 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $16,500 · International+16 more: $113,374 · International+16 moreNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $54,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RE…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $42,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMEN…SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $31,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLU…THE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC: $15,200 · EnvironmentTHE POTOMA…THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $9,500 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $8,300 · Environment+10 more: $50,050 · Environment+10 moreTHE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesTHE MONTG…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $33,000 · Human ServicesAmerican …GIVEDIRECTLY INC: $19,500 · Human ServicesGIVEDIREC…FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $16,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS O…COVENANT HOUSE: $13,300 · Human ServicesCOVENANT …NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $11,300 · Human ServicesNATIONAL …MONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC: $7,550 · Human ServicesAARP FOUNDATION: $7,400 · Human ServicesMISSION OF MERCY INC: $7,000 · Human Services+5 more: $18,560 · Human Services+5 morePARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 · HealthPARTNERS …THE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $22,000 · HealthTHE ZACHA…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $19,000 · HealthST JUDE C…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $16,200 · HealthALZHEIMER…AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $16,000 · HealthAMYOTROPH…PROGERIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $15,500 · HealthPROGERIA …THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $10,300 · HealthTHE FOUND…BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthBILL HILL…EVERYMIND INC: $8,500 · HealthFOOD & FRIENDS INC: $7,600 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $6,800 · HealthARTHRITIS NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $6,500 · Health+6 more: $23,100 · Health+6 moreBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $51,515 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $45,200 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $21,500 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD & WATER WATCH: $8,300 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $7,000 · Food & NutritionALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $42,500 · EducationWOODSTOCK ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $31,100 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $21,000 · EducationMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $16,500 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $11,000 · EducationMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $7,200 · EducationAMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · EducationTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $5,300 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · Education
Other$854,600International$447,274Environment$210,550Human Services$189,110Health$186,500Food & Nutrition$143,515Education$143,100

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $75,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $54,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $51,515 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $51,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $45,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $45,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $42,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $42,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $40,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $33,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSTOCK ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $31,100 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $26,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $24,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $22,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $21,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $21,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $19,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $19,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $18,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $18,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $17,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $16,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $16,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $16,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $16,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPROGERIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $15,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC: $15,200 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $15,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $15,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC: $13,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS: $13,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $13,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE: $13,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $13,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $12,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $11,700 over 8y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds WOODSTOCK ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗

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 Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…Clark-Winchcole Found…United Way of the Nat…John Edward Fowler Me…Nora Roberts Foundati…Healthcare Initiative…Adventist Healthcare …The Gary and Pennie A…William S Abell Found…Clark Charitable Foun…Venable Foundation Inc
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC40.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Healthcare Initiative Foundation · Adventist Healthcare Inc · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc

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 Lester Poretsky Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lester Poretsky Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge: 100% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Trust: 100% of income from government
  • Unified Efforts Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Easter Seals Serving Dc Md Va Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Greater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd: 28% of income from government
  • Medstar Health Inc: 23% of income from government
  • The House of Ruth Maryland Inc: 19% of income from government
  • The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Everymind Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Cornerstone Montgomery: 3% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Health Care for the Homeless Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Manna Food Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
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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Find your warmest path to Lester Poretsky Family 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 293 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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