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Mildred M Soefer Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$141k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
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 FY20172025.

Religion$473kPhilanthropy$229kHealth$134kArts & Culture$46kInternational$45kHuman Services$32kEducation$15kCivil Rights$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE BETH SHALOM$50,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NJ$30,000
AXELROD PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$20,000
THE MADDIE KRAMER FOUNDATION$15,000
FRIENDS OF YAD LAKASHISH$10,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$5,000
LUNCH BREAK$3,300
KELLMAN BROWN ACADEMY$1,800
LUNCH BREAK$1,700
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$1,500
IMPACT 100 JERSEY COAST$1,200
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$1,000
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 (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $5k → 11%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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Mildred M Soefer Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Mildred M Soefer Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.
$911k · 10 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +97% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
14

Total granted

$911k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+97%
+28%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthReligionCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • TM
    The Maddie Kramer Foundation d/b/a Dancing While Cancering
    8× · 2018–2025 · $110k · revenue +219%
  • OM
    OPENDOR MEDIA INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $60k · revenue +143%
  • KB
    KELLMAN BROWN ACADEMY
    3× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +253%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • TA
    THE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +28%

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.

1
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
2
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
3
Adi Israel Foundation Inc

Aleh Israel Foundation, Inc.(The Foundation)is a Foundation that provides support to rehabilitative centers caring for most severely disabled children in Israel.

International
4
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
5
American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc

To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.

Religion
6
American Friends of Zvi Latzadik Dba Breslov Research Institute Jerusalem

To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.

International
7
The Shalem Foundation

To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.

Crime & Legal
8
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
9
American Friends of Tzohar

Support of tzohar-a school for special needs children located in israel

10
American Friends of Collegio Maimonides

The organization provides financial assistance to jewish educational programs.

Education
11
American Zionist Movement Inc

Working across a broad ideolgical, political, and religious spectrum linking the american jewish community together in support of israel, zionism and the jewish people

Religion
12
American Friends of Menuchas Asher Csenger Inc

To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opendor Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cazzeek Brothers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 30 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)
17/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM — $346,059 · OtherTEMPLE BETH SHOLOMJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NJ — $289,760 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NJFRIENDS OF YAD LAKASHISH — $76,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF YAD LAKASHISH+17 more — $74,669 · Other+17 moreThe Maddie Kramer Foundation d/b/a Dancing While Cancering — $110,000 · HealthThe Maddie K…OPENDOR MEDIA INC — $60,000 · ReligionJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · ReligionAXELROD PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureHONESTREPORTINGCOM INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $5,000 · Arts & CultureKELLMAN BROWN ACADEMY — $11,300 · EducationPOLITZ DAY SCHOOL OF CHERRY HILL A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $3,600 · EducationANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $11,000 · Civil RightsLUNCH BREAK INC — $7,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$786,488Health$110,000Religion$65,000Arts & Culture$32,500Education$14,900Civil Rights$11,000Food & Nutrition$7,000

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 budgetThe Maddie Kramer Foundation d/b/a Dancing While Cancering — $110,000 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKELLMAN BROWN ACADEMY — $11,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHONESTREPORTINGCOM INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLUNCH BREAK INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAABR Foundation — $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF OFANIM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLITZ DAY SCHOOL OF CHERRY HILL A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $3,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $3,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASBURY PARK LITTLE LEAGUE INC — $3,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC — $750 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Mildred M Soefer Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • Axelrod Performing Arts Center Inc6% of income from government
  • Lunch Break Inc4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 Mildred M Soefer Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mildred M Soefer Family 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 30 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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