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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

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%
+40%

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
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

  • 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%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMENT NEW YORK
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University; 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 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. 11 of the 24 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetALDERSBRIDGE COMMUNITIES (F/K/A UNITED METHODIST ELDER CARE): $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA RESEARCH INST FOR EQUINE NURTURING DEVELOPMENT & SAFETY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% 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
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 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 ALDERSBRIDGE COMMUNITIES (F/K/A UNITED METHODIST ELDER CARE) ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA RESEARCH INST FOR EQUINE NURTURING DEVELOPMENT & SAFETY INC ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds Physicians Committee for Responsible Med ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 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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