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Marlene & Samuel Halperin Family Foundat

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.

$511k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$175k
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 FY2017–2024.

International$997kFood & Nutrition$315kEnvironment$248kHuman Services$222kHealth$127kCivil Rights$89kReligion$54kEducation$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $290k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE$175,000
MAZON A JEWISH RESPONSE TO HUNGER$65,000
HIAS$50,000
EARTHJUSTICE$25,000
FAIR CHANCE$25,000
EVERY MIND$20,000
BRIGID ALLIANCE$20,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$15,000
ISRAAID (US) GLOBAL HUMANITARIUN ASSISTANCE INC$15,000
NRDC$10,000
BOY'S TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC$10,000
THE NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON ETHIOPIAN JEWRY$10,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$8,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SEATTLE$5,000
FAMILIES FOR FAMILIES$5,000
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 (FY17–24, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MASSACHUSETTS BAIL FUND: $6k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SEATTLE: $5k → 9%MASSACHUSETTS BAIL FUND: $3k → 8%FAIR CHANCE: $25k → 14%FAIR CHANCE: $25k → 14%FAIR CHANCE: $25k → 14%FAIR CHANCE: $25k → 14%FAIR CHANCE: $25k → 14%FAIR CHANCE: $25k → 14%COMMUNITY BRIDGES: $500 → 8%FAIR CHANCE: $1k → 14%FAIR CHANCE: $1k → 14%AYUDA: $4k → 14%BRIGID ALLIANCE: $20k → 17%BRIGID ALLIANCE: $10k → 17%BRIGID ALLIANCE: $5k → 17%BRIGID ALLIANCE: $3k → 17%AYUDA: $3k → 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

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 36 repeat orgs$221k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
38

Total granted

$1.8M
$205k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+20%

Still filing today

78%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 ServicesCrime & LegalEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • MA
    MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger
    6× · 2018–2024 · $278k · revenue +22%
  • HI
    HIAS INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $190k · revenue +180%
  • FAIR CHANCE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $152k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • FN
    FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +77%
  • MC
    MERCY CORPS
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · 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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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
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
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
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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5
American Flood Coalition Inc

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

Environment
6
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
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
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
9
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
10
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
11
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
12
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Liberty Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is St John Rescue Inc. 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 backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Environmental Conservation …Community FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterFood Banks and PantriesPolicy Research and Advocacy
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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%29%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/60
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,505

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

59 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. 59 of the 80 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
39/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE — $370,000 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICEMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger — $278,000 · OtherMAZON A Jewish Response to HungerAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE CHILD — $45,000 · OtherNORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON ETHIOPIAN JEWRY INC — $43,960 · Other+42 more — $382,850 · Other+42 moreAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $325,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVIC…HIAS INC — $190,000 · InternationalHIAS INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $30,000 · International+7 more — $41,000 · International+7 moreFAIR CHANCE — $152,000 · Human ServicesFAIR CHANC…THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC — $37,500 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID…Massachusetts Bail Fund — $9,000 · Human Services+3 more — $11,500 · Human Services+3 moreEARTHJUSTICE — $85,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTI…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $65,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RE…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $55,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMEN…+2 more — $4,000 · EnvironmentEVERYMIND INC — $60,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S NURSING SPECIALTIES INC — $10,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $7,500 · HealthFight 4 Diabetes Cure Inc — $5,300 · HealthST JOHN RESCUE INC — $5,000 · Health+2 more — $5,500 · HealthAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC — $45,000 · EducationGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP — $10,000 · EducationINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK — $5,000 · EducationMaris Place — $21,500 · Youth DevelopmentLATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER — $16,500 · Youth DevelopmentCity Kids to Wilderness Project Inc — $16,500 · Youth Development
Other$1,119,810International$586,000Human Services$210,000Environment$209,500Health$93,800Education$60,000Youth Development$54,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $325,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger — $278,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetHIAS INC — $190,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFAIR CHANCE — $152,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $85,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYMIND INC — $60,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $55,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC — $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON ETHIOPIAN JEWRY INC — $43,960 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC — $37,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMaris Place — $21,500 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT — $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER — $16,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCity Kids to Wilderness Project Inc — $16,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSolid Ground Washington — $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S NURSING SPECIALTIES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC — $9,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Bail Fund — $9,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSalute to Military Golf Association Inc — $7,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAYUDA INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFight 4 Diabetes Cure Inc — $5,300 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARENTS CIRCLE - FAMILIES FORUM — $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBERTY FUND INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA BAIL FUND INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…Nora Roberts Foundati…Open Society InstituteJewish Community Fede…Boston Foundation IncImpactassetsincVanguard Charitable E…Shell USA Company Fou…Network for GoodJewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC15.4× affinity5 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 · Nora Roberts Foundation · Open Society Institute · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Boston Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Shell USA Company Foundation · Network for Good · Jewish Communal Fund · 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 Marlene & Samuel Halperin Family Foundat 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Everymind Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 Marlene & Samuel Halperin Family Foundat?

Find your warmest path to Marlene & Samuel Halperin Family Foundat 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 80 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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