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Nina Abrams Fund at a glance

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Nina Abrams Fund

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.

$170k
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Environment$389kEducation$211kHealth$125kCrime & Legal$106kInternational$94kArts & Culture$86kHuman Services$76kCivil Rights$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
$2,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
US Rainforest Trust$42,500
Jules Stein Eye Institute$15,000
Sisterhood is Global Institute$10,000
Lumumba Children's Library GO Campaign$10,000
Long Island University$10,000
Bet Tzedek$10,000
Hudson Highlands Land Trust$7,500
World Wildlife Fund$5,000
American Friends of Magen David Adom$5,000
War Child USA$3,500
The Metropolotan Opera$3,000
United in Harmony$2,500
Population Connection$2,500
Comfort Zone Camp$2,500
Natural Resources Defense Council$2,500
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 (FY17–24, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Amherst Survival Center: $2k → 12%United in Harmony: $3k → 14%Island Harvest: $2k → 6%Tutwiler Community Education Center: $2k → 31%REACT DC: $2k → 6%The Comfort Zone Camp: $3k → 9%Maine Needs: $2k → 7%Amherst Survival Center: $2k → 12%United in Harmony: $3k → 14%The Comfort Zone Camp: $3k → 9%Maine Needs: $2k → 7%Amherst Survival Center: $2k → 12%United in Harmony: $3k → 14%Comfort Zone Camp: $3k → 9%Amherst Survival Center: $2k → 12%United in Harmony: $3k → 14%The Comfort Zone Camp: $3k → 9%Amherst Survival Center: $2k → 12%United in Harmony: $2k → 14%Comfort Zone Camp: $3k → 9%Amherst Survival Center: $2k → 12%United in Harmony: $2k → 14%Comfort Zone Camp: $3k → 9%Amherst Survival Center: $2k → 12%United in Harmony: $2k → 14%She's the First: $3k → 17%Comfort Zone Camp: $3k → 9%United in Harmony: $2k → 14%Jenesse Center Inc: $4k → 14%Jenesse Center Inc: $3k → 14%She's the First: $3k → 17%Jenesse Center Inc: $3k → 14%She's the First: $3k → 17%Jenesse Center Inc: $3k → 14%She's the First: $3k → 17%She's the First: $3k → 17%She's the First: $3k → 17%She's the First: $2k → 17%She's the First: $2k → 17%GO Campaign: $5k → 14%GO Campaign: $4k → 14%Dorot Inc: $2k → 17%Innocence Project: $1k → 17%Dorot Inc: $2k → 17%Dorot Inc: $2k → 17%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

ME
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
DC
MS
AL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 50 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
21

Total granted

$1.1M
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+19%

Still filing today

74%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationInternationalEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • RT
    RAINFOREST TRUST
    5× · 2019–2023 · $177k · revenue +78%
  • BT
    BET TZEDEK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +123%
  • LI
    LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -33%
  • TT
    TRANSITION TOWN MEDIA
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • RD
    REACT DC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue ×16
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
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
3
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
4
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
5
Women First Inc

Women first invests in grassroots initiatives driven by women and girls in developing economies that sustainably advance their lives.

International
6
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
7
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
8
Witness Inc

Witness helps people use video and technology to protect and defend human rights. witness is working towards a world where the communities we center, serve, and support can safely and effectively use video and technology to end human…

International
9
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
10
Wikimedia Foundation Inc

The mission of the wikimedia foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. (see schedule…

Education
11
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
12
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Community Trust; the most unlike its peers is Womens Justice Now. 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

59 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. 59 of the 78 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
41/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Jules Stein Eye Institute: $100,000 · OtherJules Stein Eye InstituteBET TZEDEK: $80,000 · OtherBET TZEDEKLONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · OtherLONG ISLAND UNIVERSITYUS Rainforest Trust: $42,500 · OtherUS Rainforest TrustLumumba Children's Library GO Campaign: $26,500 · OtherWOMENS JUSTICE NOW: $23,500 · OtherJewish Family Services: $21,900 · OtherDi Goldene Keyt Ltd: $18,000 · OtherEducational Broadcasting Corporation: $18,000 · OtherPOPULATION CONNECTION: $17,500 · Other+27 more: $96,000 · Other+27 moreRAINFOREST TRUST: $176,800 · InternationalRAINFOREST TRUSTWAR CHILD USA INC: $28,000 · InternationalWAR CHILD USA INCSISTERHOOD IS GLOBAL INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 · InternationalSISTERHOOD IS GLOBAL IN…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,000 · International+3 more: $9,000 · InternationalHudson Highlands Land Trust Inc: $70,000 · EnvironmentHudson Highlands…WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $29,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE F…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $28,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCE…TREEPEOPLE INC: $20,500 · EnvironmentTREEPEOPLE INCHEAL THE BAY: $20,000 · EnvironmentHEAL THE BAY+2 more: $2,500 · EnvironmentROOM TO READ: $70,400 · EducationROOM TO R…MEDIA-PROVIDENCE FRIENDS SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationMEDIA-PRO…EVERYBODY DANCE LA: $7,500 · EducationEVERYBODY…GABRIELLA CHARTER SCHOOLS: $5,000 · Education+4 more: $6,000 · Education+4 moreSHE'S THE FIRST INC: $18,500 · Human ServicesSHE'S THE…UNITED IN HARMONY: $18,000 · Human ServicesUNITED IN…COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesCOMFORT Z…SURVIVAL CENTERS INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesSURVIVAL …Jenesse Center Inc: $11,000 · Human ServicesJenesse C…Go Campaign: $8,500 · Human ServicesGo Campai…DOROT INC: $4,500 · Human Services+7 more: $10,500 · Human Services+7 moreSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $30,400 · Crime & LegalOPERA AMERICA INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureMAESTRA MUSIC INC: $9,500 · Arts & CultureMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$523,900International$243,800Environment$170,000Education$103,900Human Services$100,500Crime & Legal$30,400Arts & Culture$24,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $176,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBET TZEDEK: $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetROOM TO READ: $70,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHudson Highlands Land Trust Inc: $70,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $30,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $28,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWAR CHILD USA INC: $28,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetWOMENS JUSTICE NOW: $23,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTREEPEOPLE INC: $20,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHEAL THE BAY: $20,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSISTERHOOD IS GLOBAL INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSHE'S THE FIRST INC: $18,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED IN HARMONY: $18,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPOPULATION CONNECTION: $17,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOMFORT ZONE CAMP INC: $17,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMEDIA-PROVIDENCE FRIENDS SCHOOL: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSURVIVAL CENTERS INC: $12,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TENDER INC: $12,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetOPERA AMERICA INC: $11,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJenesse Center Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAESTRA MUSIC INC: $9,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWATSI INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FUND FOR CHARITIES: $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGo Campaign: $8,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEVERYBODY DANCE LA: $7,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGABRIELLA CHARTER SCHOOLS: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Needs Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA PLACE FOR KIDS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOMORROW FUND: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREACT DC INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOPIAH-LINCOLN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHAMPTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTutwiler Community Education Center: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOODLINK INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND HARVEST LTD: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST BOOK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $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.

  • Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
  • Who funds BET TZEDEK ↗
  • Who funds LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
  • Who funds Hudson Highlands Land Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds WAR CHILD USA INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS JUSTICE NOW ↗
  • Who funds TREEPEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds HEAL THE BAY ↗
  • Who funds SISTERHOOD IS GLOBAL INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHE'S THE FIRST INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED IN HARMONY ↗
  • Who funds POPULATION CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA-PROVIDENCE FRIENDS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SURVIVAL CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TENDER INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERA AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Jenesse Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds MAESTRA MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds WATSI INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN FUND FOR CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds Go Campaign ↗
  • Who funds EVERYBODY DANCE LA ↗
  • Who funds GABRIELLA CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds HIAS INC ↗

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 …American Express Foun…National Philanthropi…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Silicon Valley Commun…The San Francisco Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…
California Community FoundationCA15× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

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 Nina Abrams Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nina Abrams Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%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
  • Survival Centers Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report 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 78 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
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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