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Posel Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$340k
Granted FY2023
29
Grants FY2023
11
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$4.3MInternational$688kEducation$523kYouth Development$387kCivil Rights$371kEnvironment$261kCrime & Legal$171kArts & Culture$109kOther$0
02FY2023 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k11 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $213k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE$72,000
SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY$27,500
READER TO READER$20,000
DEMOCRACY NOW$15,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$15,000
EQUAL JUSTICE USA$15,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$10,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE$10,000
CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION$10,000
EARTHJUSTICE$10,000
SOIL$10,000
ITHACA COMMUNITY RADIO$10,000
PLENTY INTERNATIONAL$10,000
ITHACA WELCOMES REFUGEES$10,000
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 (FY17–23, $485k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%ONE PERCENT FOR AMERICA: $5k → 16%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $175k → 12%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $100k → 12%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 14%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $75k → 12%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 14%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $25k → 12%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 14%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $20k → 12%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 14%ITHACA WELCOMES REFUGEES: $10k → 16%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $20k → 12%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $8k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $3k → 20%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $3k → 14%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $3k → 14%OHEL CHILDREN'S HOME & FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 20%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $3k → 14%OHEL CHILDREN'S HOME & FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 20%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $3k → 14%SEARCH AND CARE: $2k → 17%SEARCH AND CARE: $2k → 17%DOROT INC: $2k → 17%DOROT INC: $2k → 17%COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY: $3k → 17%COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY: $3k → 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
NH
WA
MN
WI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
LA
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 100 repeat orgs$408k to everyone else

100 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2023, 80 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

100
32

Total granted

$2.6M
$341k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+36%

Still filing today

84%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • NY
    NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES
    4× · 2019–2022 · $370k · revenue +118%
  • NV
    NEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +27%
  • NO
    Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children
    6× · 2017–2023 · $85k · revenue +172%

Funded once

  • YB
    Yoga Behind Barsgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue +53%
  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +50%
  • UN
    UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
4
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
5
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
6
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
7
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
8
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
9
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
10
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
11
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
12
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ithaca Welcomes Refugees 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

118 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 118 of the 146 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
117/118
Grantees still filing
96/118
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $4,259,707 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+2 more: $138,400 · PhilanthropyCOOPER MEDICAL SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherCOOPER MEDICAL SC…SOIL: $92,000 · OtherSOILNetwork on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children: $85,000 · OtherNetwork on Women …WCCN: $80,000 · OtherWCCNCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION: $50,000 · OtherNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT: $45,000 · OtherPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $70,000 · OtherPARTNERS IN HEALT…SUSTAINABLE ORGANIC INTEGRATED LIVELIHOODS C/O MELANIE STEVENSON: $65,000 · OtherSUSTAINABLE ORGAN…Make the Road New York: $60,000 · OtherDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $51,000 · Other+62 more: $428,050 · Other+62 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC: $83,500 · InternationalInternati…THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $82,000 · InternationalTHE CENTE…HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $75,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIG…PLENTY INTERNATIONAL: $60,000 · InternationalPLENTY IN…Mercy Corps: $55,000 · InternationalMercy Cor…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $42,000 · InternationalMEDECINS …GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · InternationalQUIXOTE CENTER INCORPORATED: $30,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $20,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $20,000 · International+12 more: $87,000 · International+12 moreNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $370,000 · Human ServicesOPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $45,000 · Human Services+14 more: $82,200 · Human ServicesNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $150,000 · EducationYoga Behind Bars: $45,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $25,000 · EducationTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANY: $15,000 · EducationNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS: $11,000 · Education+6 more: $23,000 · EducationCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $95,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $45,000 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $35,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE USA INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $15,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $10,000 · Civil RightsSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $50,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $25,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc: $15,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $13,000 · EnvironmentRIVERKEEPER INC: $12,000 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute Inc: $10,000 · EnvironmentLOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE: $10,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT: $10,000 · Environment+5 more: $9,500 · Environment
Philanthropy$4,398,107Other$1,126,050International$584,500Human Services$497,200Education$269,000Civil Rights$225,000Environment$184,500

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $4,259,707 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $370,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $150,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetREADER TO READER INC: $135,000 over 6y, 9.4% of budgetCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $95,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNetwork on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children: $85,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $83,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $82,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE ORGANIC INTEGRATED LIVELIHOODS C/O MELANIE STEVENSON: $65,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMake the Road New York: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPLENTY INTERNATIONAL: $60,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetMercy Corps: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $51,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYoga Behind Bars: $45,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $42,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQUIXOTE CENTER INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $27,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE USA INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetITHACA COMMUNITY RADIO INC: $25,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERKEEPER INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRED HOOK INITIATIVE: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIND INC: $10,000 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.

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.

Whatcom Community Fou…The New York Communit…Riverstyx FoundationLily Auchincloss Foun…The Robert Wood Johns…Seattle FoundationLucky Seven FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Jewish Communal FundMedina FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…Robin Hood Foundation
Whatcom Community FoundationWA23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Whatcom Community Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Riverstyx Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Medina Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Robin Hood 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 Posel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Posel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Reader to Reader Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Posel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Posel 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 146 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

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