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Plafsky Family Foundation

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.

$76k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
40%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$174k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Plafsky Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsEducationReligionInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$76k14%
FY202410$181k40%
FY20238$119k50%
FY20226$35k67%
FY20215$38k40%
FY20208$97k25%
FY20199$61k44%
FY201811$23k73%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$314kHealth$245kArts & Culture$51kReligion$32kRecreation & Sports$16kHuman Services$13kPhilanthropy$8kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Spectrum Corp$170,50051%
Boca Raton Achievement Center Inc$119,556218%
Opportunity Project Inc$26,10091%
David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace$15,00010%
Maccabi USA Inc$13,78020%
The Gift of Life Corporation$11,9803n/a
Palm Beach Orthodox Synagogue Inc$11,0252n/a
Higher Purpose Fellowship$10,00012%
Choc Foundation$8,36010%
Race to Erase Ms$8,00020%
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All grantees of Plafsky Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Spectrum Corp$170,50051%
Boca Raton Achievement Center Inc$119,556218%
Opportunity Project Inc$26,10091%
David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace$15,00010%
Maccabi USA Inc$13,78020%
The Gift of Life Corporation$11,9803n/a
Palm Beach Orthodox Synagogue Inc$11,0252n/a
Higher Purpose Fellowship$10,00012%
Choc Foundation$8,36010%
Race to Erase Ms$8,00020%
Elton John AIDS Foundation Inc$6,00010%
Face Forward Inc Dba Face Forward International$5,75022%
Temple Bat Yam of East Fort Lauderdale Inc$5,3505n/a
Seton Hall Preparatory School$5,0001n/a
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$2,50010%
Kings County Tennis League$2,50030%
Beverly Hills Police Officers Assn Inc$2,00010%
Journey Out$1,00010%
The Solid Rock Ministry Sfl Inc$1,0001n/a
Colorectal Cancer Alliance$50010%
United States Fund for Unicef$50010%
Danceaspen$50010%
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc$50010%
Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills$5001n/a
Ohr Hatorah$4002n/a
Al & Joyce Vidbel Foundation Inc$25017%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($255k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Plafsky Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Spectrum Corp: $170,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBoca Raton Achievement Center Inc: $119,556 over 2y, 18% of budgetOpportunity Project Inc: $26,100 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetDavid Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMaccabi USA Inc: $13,780 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHigher Purpose Fellowship: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetChoc Foundation: $8,360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRace to Erase Ms: $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetElton John AIDS Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFace Forward Inc Dba Face Forward International: $5,750 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKings County Tennis League: $2,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBeverly Hills Police Officers Assn Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJourney Out: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColorectal Cancer Alliance: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDanceaspen: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAl & Joyce Vidbel Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 6.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY8.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Plafsky Family Foundation

How much does Plafsky Family Foundation give?
Plafsky Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $75,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Plafsky Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Health (36%), Arts & Culture (7%).
Who are Plafsky Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Spectrum Corp ($171k), Boca Raton Achievement Center Inc ($120k), Opportunity Project Inc ($26k).
Does Plafsky Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Plafsky Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Plafsky Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Plafsky Family Foundation based?
Plafsky Family Foundation is based in FL.

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 36 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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