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Nat and Georgia Abrams Family Foundation

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.

$280k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.

Human Services$127kPhilanthropy$74kReligion$59kArts & Culture$59kRecreation & Sports$40kInternational$39kEnvironment$22kCivil Rights$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $186k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$4,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT MEDIA$50,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF EAST BAY$40,000
THRESHOLD FOUNDATION$33,200
Individual grant recipient$30,000
CAMP TAWONGA$25,000
JEWISH FAMILY CHILDREN'S OF EAST BA$20,000
SHALOM BAYIT TIDES CENTER$15,000
BERKELEY HILLEL$12,000
RACHEL'S NETWORK$10,754
EARTH JUSTICE$5,000
NEW BUILDINGS ISTITUTE$5,000
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY$5,000
JEWISH FILM INSTITUTE$4,000
JUSTICE DIVERSITY CENTER OF SF$3,000
THE PARTNERSHIP PROJECT$3,000
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%ACTION FOR POST SOVIET JEWRY: $1k → 8%HEET: $3k → 16%AS YOU SOW: $1k → 9%CONGREGATION BETH EL: $2k → 10%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $32k → 10%MAZON: $2k → 14%ACTIVE PHILANTHROPY BERLIN: $558 → 17%SUMMER INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS: $3k → 14%US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $960 → 14%NEW BUILDINGS ISTITUTE: $5k → 12%WEST VIRGINIA RIVERS: $30k → 18%THRESHOLD FOUNDATION: $33k → 14%CONGREGATION BETH EL: $2k → 10%JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE: $5k → 10%JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $2k → 17%RACHEL'S NETWORK: $38k → 14%SHALOM BAYIT TIDES CENTER: $20k → 10%JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE: $2k → 10%BENT THE ARC JEWISH ACTION: $2k → 17%RACHEL'S NETWORK: $11k → 14%SOLIDAIRE NETWORK: $20k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY CHILDREN'S OF SF: $5k → 10%THE PARTNERSHIP PROJECT: $3k → 14%SHALOM BAYIT TIDES CENTER: $15k → 10%CLIMATEBASE: $2k → 10%SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%CAMP TAWONGA: $25k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY CHILDREN'S OF EAST BA: $62k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL: $15k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF EAST BAY: $40k → 10%CAMP TAWONGA: $15k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY CHILDREN'S OF EAST BA: $20k → 10%EARTH JUSTICE: $5k → 10%BERKELEY HILLEL: $12k → 10%JEWISH FILM INSTITUTE: $4k → 10%BERKELEY HILLEL: $8k → 10%JEWISH FILM INSTITUTE: $4k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE EAST BAY: $3k → 10%JUSTICE DIVERSITY CENTER OF SF: $3k → 10%HABITAT MEDIA: $50k → 10%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$244k · 8 repeat orgs$241k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$244k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-17%
+1%

Still filing today

50%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EnvironmentInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterReligionOther

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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY CHILDREN'S OF EAST BA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $82k
  • RN
    RACHEL'S NETWORK INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $48k · revenue -17%
  • TJ
    TAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • Solidaire Network Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +240%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +1%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY CHILDREN'S OF SF
    one grant, 2023 · $5k

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 Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
2
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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3
Jews of Color Initiative

The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…

Civil Rights
4
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
5
Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

Human Services
6
JEWISHColorado

We convene, connect, invest, and protect jewish life in colorado, israel, and around the world.

Philanthropy
7
The Jerusalem Connection
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8
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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9
San Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc

(continued from page 1) nationally and internationally. Further, J seeks to enrich the cultural, religious and social life of the community through its articles, interviews and features.

Education
10
Jewish Federation of Greater Portland

To assure the building and strengthening of the jewish community locally, nationally, overseas and in israel, in accordance with jewish values.

Philanthropy
11
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
12
University of Judaism Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network and 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

22 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 35 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)
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Grantees still filing
8/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH FAMILY CHILDREN'S OF EAST BA — $81,800 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY CHILDREN'S OF EAST BAHABITAT MEDIA — $50,000 · OtherHABITAT MEDIAJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF EAST BAY — $40,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF EAST BAYSHALOM BAYIT TIDES CENTER — $35,000 · OtherSHALOM BAYIT TIDES CENTERTHRESHOLD FOUNDATION — $33,200 · OtherTHRESHOLD FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBERKELEY HILLEL — $20,000 · OtherBERKELEY HILLELJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA — $15,000 · Other+13 more — $39,379 · Other+13 moreRACHEL'S NETWORK INC — $48,254 · Public Safety & DisasterRACHEL'S N…TAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $40,000 · ReligionNEW ISRAEL FUND — $32,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $3,000 · InternationalSummer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global — $2,600 · International+1 more — $1,000 · InternationalSolidaire Network Inc — $20,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $2,399 · PhilanthropyEARTHJUSTICE — $5,000 · EnvironmentNEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE — $5,000 · EnvironmentThe Partnership Project Inc — $3,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $1,000 · EnvironmentJewish Film Institute — $8,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $960 · Arts & Culture
Other$344,379Public Safety & Disaster$48,254Religion$40,000International$38,600Philanthropy$22,399Environment$14,000Arts & Culture$8,960

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRACHEL'S NETWORK INC — $48,254 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $32,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBERKELEY HILLEL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Film Institute — $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Partnership Project Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSummer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global — $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $2,399 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEND THE ARC JEWISH ACTION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTION FOR POST-SOVIET JEWRY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAS YOU SOW — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $960 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.

Grossberg Abrams Foun…Jewish Community Fede…The Jewish Community …Lisa & Douglas Goldma…Koret FoundationCombined Jewish Phila…Jewish Community Fede…ImpactassetsincSilicon Valley Commun…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…
Grossberg Abrams FoundationCA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grossberg Abrams Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay · The Jewish Community Foundation · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · Koret Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Nat and Georgia Abrams 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • New Buildings Institute — 100% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Nat and Georgia Abrams Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Nat and Georgia Abrams 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 35 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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