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Minerd Foundation 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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$1.0M
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$5.1MHealth$2.6MSocial Science$2.3MCivil Rights$2.0MEducation$1.2MReligion$768kYouth Development$268kAnimals$103kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $278k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.0M
$25,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNION RESCUE MISSION$1,000,000
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY$500,000
ROBERT F KENNEDY HUMAN RIGHTS$250,000
BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG PREVENTION$250,000
BRIDGE TRUST USA$133,000
PARS THEOLOGICAL CENTRE$75,000
THE AMANDA FOUNDATION$70,000
ANTI-CRUELTY SOCIETY$30,000
HOLT INTERNATIONAL$25,000
EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF AMERICA$25,000
LOS ANGELES FOOD BANK$25,000
VOICE OF THE MARTYRS$25,000
THRU THE BIBLE$25,000
CLARIS HEALTH$10,000
THE HUDSON SCHOOL$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $5.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1.1M → 14%HOLT INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 15%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1.0M → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1.0M → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1.0M → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $998k → 14%CLARIS HEALTH: $100k → 14%CLARIS HEALTH: $10k → 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

MN
IL
NY
OR
NV
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
TN
SC
DC
OK
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of Minerd Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Minerd Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 16% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 13 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
20

Total granted

$11M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
-5%

Still filing today

85%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $333k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UR
    UNION RESCUE MISSION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +125%
  • RF
    ROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +33%
  • SJ
    SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1.0M · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MILKEN INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $2.2M · revenue +23%
  • HR
    HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue -47%
  • MS
    MUSTARD SEED SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -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
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
3
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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4
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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5
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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6
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
7
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
8
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
9
Institute for Systems Biology

Non-profit research institute to advance a systems (or holistic and cross-disciplinary) approach to science; personalized medicine; global health & environmental sustainability; science education; & the pioneering & invention of biological…

Science & Tech
10
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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11
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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12
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; the most unlike its peers is Thomas Jefferson University. 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

35 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. 35 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
20/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $2,200,000 · OtherTHE MILKEN INSTITUTEROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: $1,756,000 · OtherROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RI…BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG PREVENTION: $750,000 · OtherBRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG PREVENTIONTHE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS: $550,000 · OtherTHE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESSCMC INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES: $360,000 · OtherCMC INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES+19 more: $573,050 · Other+19 moreUNION RESCUE MISSION: $5,095,000 · Human ServicesUNION RESCUE MISSION+2 more: $135,000 · Human ServicesTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $800,000 · EducationMUSTARD SEED SCHOOL: $100,000 · EducationCHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY: $100,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · Education+3 more: $31,000 · EducationSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · Health+5 more: $105,000 · HealthHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $250,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel: $35,000 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $25,000 · InternationalBRIDGE TRUST-USA INC: $258,000 · ReligionThru The Bible Inc: $25,000 · ReligionGOOD PROJECTS INC: $263,333 · PhilanthropyGENE SPOTLIGHT INC: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$6,189,050Human Services$5,230,000Education$1,131,000Health$1,105,000International$310,000Religion$283,000Philanthropy$278,333

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $5,095,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $2,200,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: $1,756,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $800,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS: $550,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetGOOD PROJECTS INC: $263,333 over 2y, 17% of budgetBRIDGE TRUST-USA INC: $258,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $250,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCLARIS HEALTH: $110,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetMUSTARD SEED SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMANDA FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAY YES TO EDUCATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Anti-Cruelty Society: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $28,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ORPHAN DISEASE PATHWAY PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThru The Bible Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFCANCER: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENE SPOTLIGHT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGLAAD INC: $10,550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUDSON SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $1,000 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.

California Community …AbbVie FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…
California Community FoundationCA11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report 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, 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Minerd Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Minerd Foundation 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 47 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home