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Nulman 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.

$108k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$196kEnvironment$115kYouth Development$91kFood & Nutrition$60kEducation$45kHuman Services$37kRecreation & Sports$15kAnimals$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$5,324
Median grant
4
States reached
$701k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIGH FIVES NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION$50,898
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$14,889
JOHNNY CAKE CENTER$12,534
JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES$12,500
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$5,324
CHABAD OF WEST VILLAGE INC$5,238
ALDERSBRIDGE COMMUNITIES$2,500
PHYSICIANS FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH$2,500
BEYOND OUR SHORES FOUNDATION$1,800
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $13k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES: $13k → 14%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.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$535k · 10 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
10

Total granted

$535k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+146%

Still filing today

40%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
EducationHealthEnvironmentCivil RightsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SAVE THE BAY INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $115k · revenue +16%
  • RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
    2× · 2017–2018 · $35k · revenue +42%
  • PF
    Physicians For Reproductive Health
    3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • CE
    CEB-CARIBBEAN EDUCATIONAL & BASEBALL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • College Unboundgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +193%
  • FR
    FLORIDA RESEARCH INST FOR EQUINE NURTURING DEVELOPMENT & SAFETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +146%

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
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University and the most unlike its peers is People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 24 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — $166,495 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALHIGH FIVES NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION — $90,448 · OtherHIGH FIVES NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONKOSHER FOOD BANK JSA — $60,000 · OtherKOSHER FOOD BANK JSAJOHNNY CAKE CENTER — $24,034 · OtherJOHNNY CAKE CENTERIndividual grant recipient — $15,241 · OtherCEB-CARIBBEAN EDUCATIONAL & BASEBALL FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Other+9 more — $25,538 · Other+9 moreSAVE THE BAY INC — $114,960 · EnvironmentSAVE THE BAY INCRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN — $34,934 · Education+1 more — $500 · EducationPhysicians For Reproductive Health — $25,109 · Civil RightsJEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES — $12,500 · Human ServicesUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $5,324 · PhilanthropyALDERSBRIDGE COMMUNITIES (F/K/A UNITED METHODIST ELDER CARE) — $2,500 · HealthPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med — $1,000 · HealthPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $1,250 · Animals
Other$396,756Environment$114,960Education$35,434Civil Rights$25,109Human Services$12,500Philanthropy$5,324Health$3,500Animals$1,250

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 budgetSAVE THE BAY INC — $114,960 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN — $34,934 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians For Reproductive Health — $25,109 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES — $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCollege Unbound — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $5,324 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA RESEARCH INST FOR EQUINE NURTURING DEVELOPMENT & SAFETY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALDERSBRIDGE COMMUNITIES (F/K/A UNITED METHODIST ELDER CARE) — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $500 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.

  • Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC
  • Who funds RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
  • Who funds Physicians For Reproductive Health
  • Who funds JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES
  • Who funds College Unbound
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds FLORIDA RESEARCH INST FOR EQUINE NURTURING DEVELOPMENT & SAFETY INC
  • Who funds ALDERSBRIDGE COMMUNITIES (F/K/A UNITED METHODIST ELDER CARE)
  • Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC
  • Who funds Physicians Committee for Responsible Med
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Nulman 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 Nulman Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Nulman 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 24 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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