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Minkoff Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Minkoff Family Foundation Inc

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.

$48k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0173% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$163kReligion$111kInternational$3kYouth Development$1kHealth$600Environment$535Arts & Culture$480Community Improvement$200Other$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $41k
$200
Median grant
5
States reached
$462k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETH ISRAEL CENTER$11,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC - PAID PERSONALLY$10,000
HADASSAH FOUNDATION$2,522
SSPJSS$1,200
AMERICAN SOCIETY LANDSCAPE ARCHITEC$535
AMERICAN CANCER$400
Individual grant recipient$300
THE AMERICAN INSTITUE OF ARCHITECTS$280
MAGEN DAVID ADOM$200
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$200
AGRACE$200
HIAS$180
MP LIS FOUNDATION$120
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN SOCIETY LANDSCAPE ARCHITEC: $535 → 11%JBI INTERNATIONAL: $100 → 17%UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $200 → 14%CHABAD OF MADISON: $50k → 10%USO: $30 → 17%ALS ASSOCIATION: $100 → 7%DROR HABO: $300 → 8%NATIONAL FEDERATION BLIND: $49 → 19%MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $200 → 17%THE AMERICAN INSTITUE OF ARCHITECTS: $280 → 14%YOUNG JEWISH PROFESSIONALS: $42k → 10%HIAS: $180 → 8%HADASSAH FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%YOUNG JEWISH PROFESSIONALS: $35k → 10%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC - PAID PERSONALLY: $10k → 17%CHABAD OF MADISON: $13k → 10%CHABAD OF MADISON: $10k → 10%CHABAD OF MADISON: $10k → 10%CHABAD OF MADISON: $9k → 10%CHABAD OF MADISON: $8k → 10%CHABAD OF MADISON: $8k → 10%CHABAD OF MADISON: $6k → 10%CHABAD OF MADISON: $6k → 10%YOUNG JEWISH PROFESSIONALS: $1k → 10%YOUNG JEWISH PROFESSIONALS: $1k → 10%YOUNG JEWISH PROFESSIONALS: $1k → 10%YOUNG JEWISH PROFESSIONALS: $1k → 10%YOUNG JEWISH PROFESSIONALS: $1k → 10%YOUNG JEWISH PROFESSIONALS: $1k → 10%HADWIZO: $100 → 10%NORTHWEST SCHOOL: $50 → 10%CHABAD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $2k → 10%MP LIS FOUNDATION: $120 → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON: $50k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON: $46k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON: $34k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON: $25k → 10%MADISON JEWISH FEDERATION: $10k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON: $3k → 10%SSPJSS: $1k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $26 → 10%BETH ISRAEL CENTER: $11k → 10%BETH ISRAEL CENTER: $5k → 10%AGRACE: $200 → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$218k · 3 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
1

Total granted

$218k
$2k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
InternationalHealthReligionPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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
    Individual grant recipient
    9× · 2017–2025 · $118k
  • YJ
    YOUNG JEWISH PROFESSIONALS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $83k
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL CENTER
    2× · 2017–2025 · $16k

Funded once

  • CA
    CHABAD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -29%
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
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
American Friends of Menuchas Asher Csenger Inc

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

Religion
3
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

—
4
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
5
American Friends of Mosdos Montreal Inc

To promote and enhance jewish religious observance in canada

Religion
6
Jewish Institute for the Blind (Jerusalem) Inc

To educate, enrich and empower visually impaired people across israel to achieve their full potential and become contributing members of society.

International
7
Jewish Senior Life

To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.

Religion
8
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
9
American Jewish Historical Society

See schedule o - the american jewish historical society (the "society") is the oldest ethnic, cultural archive in the united states. the society provides access to more than 30 million documents and 50,000 books, photographs, art and…

Arts & Culture
10
The Jewish Publication Society

Our mission has always been to enhance jewish literacy through the publication of great books.

—
11
Jewish Institute for National Security of America

The jewish institute for national security of america (jinsa) was founded in 1976 as a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to advancing u.s. national security interests in the middle east, of which a critical pillar is a robust…

International
12
The Jewish Agency - American Section Inc

The jewish agency-american section, inc. (jaas) was organized to work with and in support of non profit organizations active in the fields of immigration and absorption in israel; youth care and training; teaching of hebrew and jewish…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hadassah Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

10 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. 10 of the 25 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)
9/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $118,294 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYOUNG JEWISH PROFESSIONALS: $83,400 · OtherYOUNG JEWISH PROFESSIONALSBETH ISRAEL CENTER: $16,000 · OtherBETH ISRAEL CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC - PAID PERSONALLY: $10,000 · Other+12 more: $3,290 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC: $157,005 · ReligionJEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC+1 more: $1,800 · ReligionTHE HADASSAH FOUNDATION INC: $2,522 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $200 · InternationalHIAS INC: $180 · InternationalThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $200 · Arts & CultureAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $100 · HealthJBI INTERNATIONAL INC: $100 · Health
Other$240,984Religion$158,805Philanthropy$2,522International$380Arts & Culture$200Health$200

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC: $157,005 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCHABAD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJBI INTERNATIONAL 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HADASSAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHABAD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds HIAS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
  • Who funds JBI INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF STEVENS POINT ↗

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.

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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 Minkoff Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Minkoff Family Foundation 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 →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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