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Posner-Wallace 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k238 grants · $240k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDRENS THEATRE COMPANY | $15,000 |
| CHILDRENS THEATRE COMPANY | $12,000 |
| I EARN INC | $10,000 |
| CHILDRENS THEATRE COMPANY | $8,000 |
| MIRROR STAGE | $7,000 |
| KESHO | $6,500 |
| BEADS FOR EDUCATION INC A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC | $5,000 |
| CHILDRENS HEALTH COUNCIL INC | $5,000 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $5,000 |
| BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC | $5,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW | $5,000 |
| CRISIS ASSISTANCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| CAPITAL SISTERS INTERNATIONAL INC | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $191k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Posner-Wallace Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
352 repeat relationships — 208 still active in FY2024, 144 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- IIIEARN INC7× · 2017–2024 · $79k · revenue +49%
- DIDOROT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +35%
- BBBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- SGSOUND GENERATIONSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +88%
- MCMS CRITTERZone grant, 2018 · $3k
- RDRURAL DEVELOPEMENT INSTITUTE AKA LANDESAone grant, 2017 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
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.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
429 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 429 of the 502 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds IEARN INC ↗
- Who funds DOROT INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds MIRROR STAGE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAR GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds ASHOKA ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds BEADS FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Radio Bilingue Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds CANDID ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Kesho ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
- Who funds PIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc · George Wasserman Family Foundation Inc · Sanford and Doris Slavin Foundation Inc · England Family Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Artsfund · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable 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 Posner-Wallace 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.
- Plummer Youth Promise Inc — 64% of income from government
- Bethany Beach Volunteer Fire Co in Station 70 — 36% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- The Petey Greene Program Inc — 29% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Beebe Medical Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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