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Memoria Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3k
Granted FY2023
13
Grants FY2023
8
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

International$8kYouth Development$5kReligion$4kArts & Culture$3kHuman Services$2kCivil Rights$2kAnimals$2kPublic Benefit$502Other$0
02FY2023 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$72
Median grant
8
States reached
$102k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Various Jewish Community Groups$1,230
Various Community Groups$568
Memoria de la Shoah$350
Freedom Now$300
Israel Guide Dog Center for the Bli$250
The Blue Card$100
The Leadership Institute$72
George Bush Presidential Center$50
Capital Research Center$50
International Campaign for Tibet$36
Cameracom for Accuracy in reporting$36
Tuskegee Airman Museum$33
USO$18
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.

US giving: 78% of grant dollars ($20k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 22% that went abroad ($6k) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Israel Guide Dog Center for the Bli: $500 → 6%The Blue Card: $250 → 17%Israel Guide Dog Center for the Bli: $500 → 6%The Blue Card: $118 → 17%Israel Guide Dog Center for the Bli: $500 → 6%The Blue Card: $118 → 17%Freedom Now: $526 → 14%Israel Guide Dog Center for the Bli: $250 → 6%The Blue Card: $100 → 17%Freedom Now: $500 → 14%Freedom Now: $500 → 14%Freedom Now: $300 → 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

MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
DC
AL
TX

Beyond the US: 22% of all-years giving ($6k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
France$4k · 7 grants
Italy$2k · 3 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
$25k · 16 repeat orgs$1k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
3

Total granted

$25k
$1k

Still filing today

31%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83 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 ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • IG
    ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2k · revenue +90%
  • TB
    THE BLUE CARD INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $586 · revenue +9%
  • SM
    Santa Monica Mountains Fund
    3× · 2020–2022 · $300 · revenue +309%

Funded once

  • FO
    Friends of New Eng Holocaust Museum
    one grant, 2022 · $500
  • JC
    Jewish Community of Japan
    one grant, 2020 · $500
  • HT
    Harry Truman LIbrary Institute
    one grant, 2022 · $33
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
International Republican Institute

Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.

Education
2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
3
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
4
Institute for Conservation Leadership

To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.

Community Improvement
5
Israel 21c

Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.

Education
6
Center for Global Development

Reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world's top decision makers. we focus on the intersection of developing countries and the governments, institutions…

Human Services
7
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
8
Israel Team Advocates International Inc

Promote understanding and support for the people of israel

International
9
The Campaign Legal Center Inc

The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…

Crime & Legal
10
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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11
Hillel At the George Washington University Inc

The mission of gw hillel is to provide an open, warm, and pluralistic environment in which students can shape their college experience by connecting socially, culturally, and spiritually to their judaism. hillel aims to foster students'…

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12
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Capital Research Center; the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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

8 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. 8 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Various Jewish Community Groups: $6,459 · OtherVarious Jewish Community GroupsVarious Community Groups: $4,638 · OtherVarious Community GroupsVarious Grants for French and Swiss: $3,212 · OtherVarious Grants for French and SwissIndividual grant recipient: $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCenter for Arts Guild - Pepperdine: $1,250 · OtherCenter for Arts Guild - PepperdineMemoria de la Shoah: $1,075 · OtherICCF Children's Foundation: $800 · Other+9 more: $2,296 · Other+9 moreFREEDOM NOW INC: $1,826 · Human ServicesFREEDOM NOW INCISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1,750 · Human ServicesISRAEL GUIDE DOG C…THE BLUE CARD INC: $586 · Human ServicesTHE BLUE CARD INCLeadership Institute: $280 · Public BenefitINTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET: $208 · InternationalHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $100 · EducationCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $50 · Philanthropy
Other$21,230Human Services$4,162Public Benefit$280International$208Education$100Philanthropy$50

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFREEDOM NOW INC: $1,826 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLUE CARD INC: $586 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Monica Mountains Fund: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $280 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET: $208 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $50 over 1y, 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 FREEDOM NOW INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds THE BLUE CARD INC ↗
  • Who funds Santa Monica Mountains Fund ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Memoria Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Memoria 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 23 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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