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Memorial Fund 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.

$45k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Philanthropy$167kHealth$42kFood & Nutrition$36kEducation$33kReligion$25kCivil Rights$18kArts & Culture$12kCommunity Improvement$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$251k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACCELERATE CHANGE INC$7,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$5,000
COMPASSION AND CHOICES$5,000
END OF LIFE CHOICES$5,000
ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM$4,000
WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND$2,500
ALL AMERICANS VOTE$2,500
PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND$2,000
KQED$1,500
SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,500
KARA FUND$1,500
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$1,000
CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND$1,000
PALO ALTO WEEKLY HOLIDAY FUND$1,000
AVENIDAS$500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AVENIDAS: $500 → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $150 → 8%AVENIDAS: $500 → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 10%AVENIDAS: $1k → 8%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

ME
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DE
DC
TX
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$206k · 33 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
34

Total granted

$206k
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+29%

Still filing today

55%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CC
    COMPASSION & CHOICES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +23%
  • EH
    ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM
    4× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +3%
  • KI
    KQED INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • FC
    FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFTS
    one grant, 2023 · $36k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +22%
  • TS
    TEMPLE SINAI OF BERGEN COUNTY
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
2
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
3
Oakland Museum of California

The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
The Adler Planetarium

The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…

Arts & Culture
7
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
8
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
9
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is Whc 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

50 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. 50 of the 83 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)
49/50
Grantees still filing
34/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TONI ROSS CHARITABLE TRUST CO TAG ASSOCIATES: $36,000 · OtherTONI ROSS CHARITABLE TRUST CO TAG ASSOCIATESMARK AND CYNTHIA ROSS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST CO TAG ASSOCIATES: $36,000 · OtherMARK AND CYNTHIA ROSS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST CO TAG ASSOCIATESFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFTS: $36,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFTSSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $20,500 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKWASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION: $20,120 · OtherWASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATIONEND OF LIFE CHOICES: $10,000 · OtherMISSION HOSPICE: $7,000 · Other+41 more: $39,183 · Other+41 moreJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $36,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FU…JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $14,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY F…THE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PALO ALTO COMM…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $2,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $17,200 · Civil RightsCOMPASSION…ACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $7,000 · Civil RightsACCELERATE…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $6,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAM…All Americans Vote: $2,500 · Civil RightsAll Americ…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationBerkeley High School Development Group: $3,000 · EducationWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $2,500 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $10,500 · Food & NutritionCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND: $4,500 · Food & NutritionKQED INC: $6,500 · Arts & CultureASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $800 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $530 · Arts & CultureCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $500 · Arts & CultureBOOTSTRAP THEATER FOUNDATION: $500 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $500 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $400 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $1,529 · Arts & CultureAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesAVENIDAS: $2,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $500 · Human Services+1 more: $150 · Human Services
Other$204,803Philanthropy$59,000Civil Rights$32,700Education$23,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Arts & Culture$11,259Human Services$7,650

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $36,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $17,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGround Game Fund: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBerkeley High School Development Group: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKARA FUND INC: $2,750 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAll Americans Vote: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAVENIDAS: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $1,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDowntown Streets Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $530 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWHC FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $369 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALO ALTO ART CENTER FOUNDATION: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PALO ALTO JUNIOR MUSEUM & ZOO: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH F GAMBLE GARDEN: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Aid Society of San Mateo County: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 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.

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.

Jewish Community Fede…Silicon Valley Commun…The David and Lucile …Jacob L and Lillian H…Stephen S Smith and P…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Marin Community Found…John and Marcia Goldm…The Palo Alto Communi…Morgan Stanley Global…The San Francisco Fou…Atkinson Foundation
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA20.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation · Stephen S Smith and Paula K Smith Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Marin Community Foundation · John and Marcia Goldman Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Atkinson 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 Memorial Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Memorial Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 Memorial Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Memorial Fund 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 83 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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