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Minduf Foundation at a glance

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Minduf 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.

$13k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Minduf Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Minduf Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $13k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’22
0
’23
8
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Philanthropy$265kInternational$10kEducation$10kHuman Services$8kAnimals$7kEnvironment$1kHealth$500
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Wildlife Conservation Network$6,500
Spectrum Youth and Family Services$3,000
The Garden Conservancy$1,000
Scholar Match$1,000
Pound Puppy Rescue$500
St Baldrick's Foundation$500
Tulen Foundation$250
Oakland Technical High School PTSA$250
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 (FY22–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Spectrum Youth and Family Services: $5k → 10%Spectrum Youth and Family Services: $3k → 10%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.
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 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
Parks California

As california state parks' statutory non-profit partner, we have a clear mission - to help strengthen parks and inspire all people to experience these extraordinary places.

Environment
2
California Competes

Established in 2011, our mission is to help transform the state's higher education system into an engine of economic opportunity that empowers all californians, particularly those from underserved communities, to achieve their full…

Education
3
National Science Policy Network

To be the leading organization that develops the skills, community, and pathways for the next generation of scientists and engineers to strengthen the foundation of trustworthy, evidence-informed public policy making for a healthier, safer…

Human Services
4
Ssp International Inc

Ssp provides students with immersive, transformational opportunities to learn, do, and belong in science. we aim to ignite the passion and imagination of young minds, offering immersive and transformational opportunities that go beyond the…

Education
5
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
6
Fashion Scholarship Fund

To advance the fashion industry by encouraging gifted and enterprising young people to pursue careers in design, merchandising, retailing and business, ensuring the industry will continue to attract dedicated and capable individuals.

Education
7
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
8
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools

We transform schools to revolutionize school systems, empowering all students with a high-quality education. the partnership's goals are to 1) dramatically accelerate achievement for students in the district's highest need and historically…

Education
9
Science Philanthropy Alliance Inc

The mission of the science philanthropy alliance is to advance scientific discovery through visionary philanthropy.

Science & Tech
10
College Match

College match partners with high schools in los angeles county to identify high-achieving, low-income high school students and provide them with the necessary tools and guidance to get into top-ranked colleges with significant financial…

Education
11
The College Preparatory School

At college prep we believe in the foundational importance of scholarship, the value of dialogue, and the need for academically curious young people to belong to a kind, creative, diverse and joyful community. we challenge our students to…

Education
12
World Science Foundation

The world science festival is a multimedia organization producing original content straddling science, the arts, journalism and education. founded in 2008, wsf is viewed by many as the premier platform bringing the most transformative…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Garden Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ptc Ca Congress of Parents Teachers. 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 11 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

MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $254,467 · PhilanthropyMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyCharitable giving under the reporti: $11,000 · OtherCAF America - Friends of Tusk: $10,000 · Other+2 more: $500 · OtherSCHOLARMATCH INC: $9,299 · EducationSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $6,500 · AnimalsPOUND PUPPY RESCUE INC: $500 · AnimalsTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 · Environment
Philanthropy$254,967Other$21,500Education$9,299Human Services$8,000Animals$7,000Environment$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSCHOLARMATCH INC: $9,299 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOUND PUPPY RESCUE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPTC CA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 Minduf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Minduf Foundation. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 11 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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