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Maurice Amado Foundation

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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2023
73
Grants FY2023
14
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.

Education$1.0MReligion$946kHealth$805kInternational$613kPhilanthropy$605kHuman Services$421kArts & Culture$420kFood & Nutrition$331kOther$0
02FY2023 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k26 grants · $104k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $814k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $570k
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC DAVIS FOUNDATION$150,000
URJ- CAMP NEWMAN$100,000
EVELYN RUBENSTEIN JCC OF HOUSTON$85,000
UCLA FOUNDATION$80,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$55,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$50,000
OSTROW SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY OF USC$50,000
KING BAUDOUIN FOUNDATION UNITED STATES$45,000
VINEYARD HAVENS$45,000
JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION$40,000
MAGEN DAVID ADOM$35,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$34,000
LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES$30,000
NEW MEXICANS TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE$30,000
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES$30,000
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 (FY20–23, $382k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 8%COMMUNITY SOLIDARITY: $70k → 7%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $3k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF HOUSTON: $15k → 16%HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $5k → 13%COMMUNITY SOLIDARITY: $10k → 7%THE FURNITURE SHAREHOUSE: $13k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF HOUSTON: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY SOLIDARITY: $2k → 7%TREE OF LIFE: $5k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF HOUSTON: $10k → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION: $10k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION: $10k → 9%TREE OF LIFE: $1k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF HOUSTON: $10k → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS DIABLE REGION: $5k → 9%CHILDREN'S GRIEF CENTER OF NEW MEXICO: $25k → 14%CHILDREN'S GRIEF CENTER OF NEW MEXICO: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S GRIEF CENTER OF NEW MEXICO: $10k → 14%TENDERLOVE COMMUNITY CENTER: $40k → 14%TENDER LOVE COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 14%RICHSTONE CENTER: $3k → 14%TENDERLOVE COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 14%TREE OF LIFE: $2k → 11%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES: $3k → 14%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $5k → 9%MIRY'S LIST: $20k → 14%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $1k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $15k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE LOS ANGELES: $10k → 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

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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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 78 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

78 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2023, 37 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
57

Total granted

$4.0M
$538k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+22%

Still filing today

85%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $673k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationInternationalEnvironmentHealthOther

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

  • JM
    JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $500k · revenue +118%
  • TL
    THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES
    4× · 2020–2023 · $115k · revenue +20%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $110k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • NF
    NMDP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +15%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +25%
  • SU
    STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRODUCT REALIZATION LAB
    one grant, 2022 · $40k

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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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
5
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
6
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
7
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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8
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
10
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is To be Heard Foundation 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterJewish Community Organizati…Cancer Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Environmental Conservation …Youth Sports ProgramsPublic Library OperationsFood Banks and PantriesDevelopmental Disabilities …Domestic Violence ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Pregnancy Support ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersPolicy Research and AdvocacyHealth Access Advocacy and …
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 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr13%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr11%25%35–55yr13%33%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/141
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,837

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

134 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. 134 of the 174 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)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
130/134
Grantees still filing
90/134
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $431,902 · OtherTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE — $300,000 · OtherWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLETEMPLE ISAIAH — $167,200 · OtherTEMPLE ISAIAHSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $160,000 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTHURJ- CAMP NEWMAN — $100,000 · Other+91 more — $1,596,300 · Other+91 moreMYRIAD USA INC — $369,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $110,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL …MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $75,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS …AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $75,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIEN…The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $35,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $35,000 · InternationalHIAS INC — $31,500 · International+8 more — $63,500 · International+8 moreJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION — $500,000 · HealthJOHN MUIR HEA…LUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER — $100,000 · HealthLUNDQUIST INS…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI …VINEYARD HAVENS INC — $45,000 · HealthVINEYARD HAVE…White Plains Hospital Medical Center — $30,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Global — $27,200 · Health+1 more — $5,000 · HealthUCLA FOUNDATION — $180,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATI…THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION — $150,000 · EducationTHE UC DAVIS …THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES — $115,000 · EducationTHE LIBRARY F…ECHOING GREEN INC — $90,000 · EducationECHOING GREEN…WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $54,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRE…826LA — $32,500 · EducationUNITED VOICES FOR NEWCOMER RIGHTS — $25,000 · Education+10 more — $92,500 · Education+10 moreCOMMUNITY SOLIDARITY INC — $82,000 · Human ServicesTENDERLOVE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES — $45,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $45,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S GRIEF CENTER OF NM — $45,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION — $25,000 · Human ServicesMIRY'S LIST — $20,000 · Human ServicesNEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER — $20,000 · Human ServicesFAITH ROOTS REPRODUCTIVE ACTION — $15,000 · Human Services+10 more — $52,636 · Human ServicesEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston — $310,500 · ReligionTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $42,500 · ReligionHouston Hillel — $30,000 · ReligionVirginia Chamber Music Foundation — $80,000 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureOPERADELAWARE INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureMOSTLY MODERN PROJECTS INC — $26,000 · Arts & CultureMARKET STREET MUSIC CORPORATION — $20,000 · Arts & CultureFIRST STATE BALLET THEATRE INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureELLSWORTH COMMUNITY MUSIC INSTITUTE — $20,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH WOMEN'S THEATRE — $15,000 · Arts & CultureELEVAR FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureStone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri — $15,000 · Arts & CultureBLUE HILL BACH — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $13,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,755,402International$794,500Health$757,200Education$739,000Human Services$429,636Religion$383,000Arts & Culture$359,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC — $369,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston — $310,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $180,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $160,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES — $115,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $110,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC — $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SOLIDARITY INC — $82,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTENDERLOVE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $80,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetVirginia Chamber Music Foundation — $80,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $75,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE LEAGUE — $61,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIvy Centennial Foundation — $60,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetGRIFFITH OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetDELAWARE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC — $55,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $54,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES — $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLarchmont-Mamaroneck Hunger Task Force Inc — $45,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMACHINE INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S GRIEF CENTER OF NM — $45,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetVINEYARD HAVENS INC — $45,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $42,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNonhuman Rights Project Inc — $42,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $40,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTUESDAY EVENING CONCERT SERIES INC — $40,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC — $35,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget826LA — $32,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHIAS INC — $31,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDEPENDENCY ADVOCACY CENTER — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW MEXICANS TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHouston Hillel — $30,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetOPERADELAWARE INC — $30,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global — $27,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOSTLY MODERN PROJECTS INC — $26,000 over 4y, 2.6% 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.

Jewish Community Foun…Albuquerque Community…Marshall L and Perrin…Longwood Foundation I…The Ralph M Parsons F…Crestlea Foundation I…California Community …Welfare Foundation IncLaffey-McHugh Foundat…The Rose Hills Founda…The Annenberg Foundat…Santa Fe Community Fo…
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA34.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Crestlea Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · Welfare Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation

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 Maurice Amado 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Aspetuck Land Trust — 28% of income from government
  • Delaware Shakespeare Festival Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Delaware Community Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Delaware Symphony Association Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Market Street Music Corporation — 11% of income from government
  • Operadelaware Inc — 9% of income from government
  • First State Ballet Theatre Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
35report 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Maurice Amado Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Maurice Amado Foundation 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 174 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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State money flows
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