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Plafsky Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $16k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$174k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOCA RATON ACHIEVEMENT CENTER$60,000
CHOC FOUNDATION$8,360
OPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC$4,000
TEMPLE BAT YAM$1,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF BROWARD CTYS$1,000
GIFT OF LIFE$840
TEMPLE BETH EL$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 (FY17–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%OPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC: $7k → 16%OPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC: $4k → 16%OPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC: $4k → 16%OPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC: $4k → 16%OPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC: $4k → 16%OPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC: $2k → 16%OPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC: $1k → 16%OPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC: $1k → 16%Opportunity Project Inc: $500 → 16%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

NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
DC
GA
FL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$569k · 14 repeat orgs$114k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
20

Total granted

$569k
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
0%

Still filing today

50%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyReligionEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • US
    UNITED SPECTRUM CORP
    5× · 2018–2022 · $171k · revenue ×58
  • OP
    OPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +19%
  • RT
    RACE TO ERASE MS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • UO
    UJA of Metro West New Jersey
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • DL
    DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -18%
  • HP
    HIGHER PURPOSE FELLOWSHIPgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +43%
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
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
4
Ucsf Health Medical Foundation

See schedule othe mission of ucsf health medical foundation is threefold: 1) to establish, operate and maintain medical clinics for the provision of healthcare services in california; 2) to promote health by providing, coordinating,…

Health
5
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
6
Commonwealth Cancer Consortium Inc

Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…

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7
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
8
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
9
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc

The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc. is to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world's most promising research.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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11
City of Hope National Medical Center

City of Hope National Medical Center's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
12
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is United Spectrum Corp. 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

21 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. 21 of the 36 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
10/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PUZZLE PLACE ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $184,925 · OtherPUZZLE PLACE ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INCUJA of Metro West New Jersey: $50,000 · OtherUJA of Metro West New JerseyTHE GIFT OF LIFE CORPORATION: $11,980 · OtherPALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INC: $11,025 · Other+17 more: $44,050 · Other+17 moreUNITED SPECTRUM CORP: $170,500 · HealthUNITED SPECTRUM CORPCHOC FOUNDATION: $8,360 · Health+5 more: $15,250 · Health+5 moreBoca Raton Achievement Center Inc: $119,556 · EducationBoca Raton Achieveme…UCLA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationOPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC: $26,100 · Human ServicesMACCABI USA INC: $13,780 · Recreation & SportsKINGS COUNTY TENNIS LEAGUE: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $15,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $250 · PhilanthropyHIGHER PURPOSE FELLOWSHIP: $10,000 · Religion
Other$301,980Health$194,110Education$124,556Human Services$26,100Recreation & Sports$16,280Philanthropy$15,250Religion$10,000

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 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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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 Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Plafsky Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Plafsky Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Opportunity Project Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 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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