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Purjes 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.

$150k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$442kEducation$205kHealth$168kInternational$19kArts & Culture$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kEnvironment$11kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $140k
$300
Median grant
8
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SYLVIA CENTER$139,500
SAVE THE WASATCH BENCH$5,000
WIKIPEDIA$650
FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC$500
ESSELSTYN FOUNDATION$500
SILENT ANGEL$500
NUTRITION FACTSORG$500
SARASOTA HIGH SCHOOL$500
TED FOUNDATION$360
DEERFIELD VALLEY RESCUE$300
ASOLO REPERTORY THEATER$300
VT LIONS CHARITIES$300
SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY$200
EATH & SKY INC$200
Individual grant recipient$200
02The need
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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 (FY17–22, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BECAUSE INTERNATIONAL: $200 → 11%CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $2k → 17%ETHOS FARM PROJECT: $22k → 4%MARBLE HOUSE PROJECT: $300 → 11%AMERICAN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $300 → 6%ETHOS FARM PROJECT: $5k → 4%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%DEERFIELD VALLEY COMMUNITY CARES: $100 → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$614k · 34 repeat orgs$293k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
74

Total granted

$614k
$291k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+32%

Still filing today

56%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
InternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • TS
    THE SYLVIA CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $369k · revenue +53% · 28% of their budget
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2018–2022 · $73k · revenue +62%
  • EF
    ETHOS FARM PROJECT INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $27k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • NY
    New York Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue +76%
  • MH
    Montefiore Health System Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -3%
  • MM
    MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +51%
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
International Food Information Council

To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.

Arts & Culture
2
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
3
Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy
4
Npr Foundation

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…

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5
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
6
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
7
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
8
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
9
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
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
Internet Society Foundation

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…

International
12
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Embrace Foundation. 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

64 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. 64 of the 115 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/64
Grantees still filing
43/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SYLVIA CENTER: $368,500 · Food & NutritionTHE SYLVIA CENTER+1 more: $3,837 · Food & NutritionNew York University: $125,000 · EducationNew York UniversityTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $73,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORID…+2 more: $2,440 · EducationTHE PLANTRICIAN PROJECT: $65,000 · OtherTHE PLANTRICIAN PROJEC…ESSELSTYN FOUNDATION: $25,500 · OtherESSELSTYN FOUNDATIONSARASOTA ORCHESTRA: $10,300 · OtherSARASOTA ORCHESTRA+79 more: $79,733 · Other+79 moreMontefiore Health System Inc: $50,000 · HealthMontefiore …MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $25,000 · HealthMONTEFIORE …The Esselstyn Family Foundation Inc: $10,000 · HealthThe Esselst…A Cure in Our Lifetime Inc: $7,500 · HealthA Cure in O…+4 more: $1,540 · HealthETHOS FARM PROJECT INC: $27,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,000 · Human ServicesCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $1,510 · Human Services+5 more: $1,200 · Human ServicesJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $4,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $2,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,500 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,500 · InternationalCHILDREN'S HOPE INDIA LLC: $1,000 · InternationalBayit Brigade: $1,000 · International+3 more: $425 · InternationalThe Plantrician Project: $15,000 · Science & Tech
Food & Nutrition$372,337Education$200,440Other$180,533Health$94,040Human Services$33,710International$15,425Science & Tech$15,000

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 budgetTHE SYLVIA CENTER: $368,500 over 8y, 28% of budgetNew York University: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $73,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMontefiore Health System Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetETHOS FARM PROJECT INC: $27,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Plantrician Project: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Esselstyn Family Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetA Cure in Our Lifetime Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSave the Wasatch Bench Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 53% of budgetEMBRACE FOUNDATION: $5,246 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCANNON POINT PRESERVATION CORP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNutritionfactsorg Inc: $3,837 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $2,140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ALTA INC: $2,050 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDeerfield Valley Rescue Inc: $1,900 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $1,832 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY: $1,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $1,510 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARASOTA FILM SOCIETY INC: $1,075 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOPE INDIA LLC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBayit Brigade: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $760 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTED FOUNDATION INC: $530 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANT BASED NUTRITION SUPPORT GROUP: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD HOSPICE: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARBLE HOUSE PROJECT INC: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSUMER REPORTS INC: $285 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV: $275 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEarth and Sky Inc: $203 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

American Express Foun…J M Smith FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…The Bessemer Giving F…Synchrony FoundationJewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…Texas Instruments Fou…Vanguard Charitable E…Duke Energy FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Ge Aerospace Foundati…
American Express FoundationNY15.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Express Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Synchrony Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Duke Energy Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ge Aerospace 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 Purjes Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Purjes Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd: 0% of income from government
  • Ethos Farm Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Florida Studio Theatre Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
13report 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.
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How do I get to Purjes Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Purjes 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 115 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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