· Private foundation
Robert and Susan Diamond 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
72% of Robert and Susan Diamond Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Minneapolis Jewish Federation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 $10k21 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION | $30,060 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $9,286 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE DESERT | $2,200 |
| SHOLOM FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| GUTTMACHER INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MNSD | $250 |
| PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICA WAY | $200 |
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES-MINNEAPOLIS | $160 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $125 |
| MYHEALTH FOR TEENS & YOUNG ADULTS | $100 |
| PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM | $100 |
| TPT | $100 |
| FIND FOOD BANK | $100 |
| JUDY KERNS PENCE CANCER FUND AURORA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $50 |
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 (FY18–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 26% of Robert and Susan Diamond 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. Read by recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 61% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 4 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195 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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc4× · 2019–2022 · $24k · revenue +43%
- SFSHOLOM FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +1%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS7× · 2018–2024 · $2k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES-MINNEAPOLISone grant, 2017 · $650
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +111%
- HAHAROLD AND MICKEY SMITH JEWISH ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $360 · revenue +169%
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.
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…
Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.
The minnesota jcc foundation's sole purpose is to support the minnesota jcc.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
Operating as isabella center for rehabilitation and nursing care, isabella is a 705-bed not-for-profit organization that is a member of the mjhs health system family. isabella is committed to providing exceptional short-term, sub-acute…
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…
The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…
Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.
To build and sustain a strong and vibrant omaha jewish community and to support jews in israel and around the world.
The mission of the madlyn & leonard abramson center for jewish life (dba "abramson senior care") is to enhance the quality of life for seniors and their family caregivers by ensuring that seniors receive exceptional health care services…
Operating under the name mjhs foundation, the mission of this philanthropic organization is to raise the funds necessary to support the charitable health care efforts of the organizations within the mjhs health system family. with roots…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Jewish Federation and the most unlike its peers is Barkee Larouxs House of Love Animal Sanctuary Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 99 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
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 MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Guttmacher Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds SHOLOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY ↗
- Who funds Coachella Valley Bridge Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAROLD AND MICKEY SMITH JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PALS INC ↗
- Who funds MYHEALTH FOR TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS INC ↗
- Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
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 Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Moscoe Family Foundation · Marshall & Elaine Siegel Foundation · Beryl and Florence Miller Family Foundation · Fingerhut Family Foundation · Lynne & Andrew Redleaf Foundation · The Beverly Foundation · Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation · Minneapolis Jewish Federation · Otto Bremer Trust
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 Robert and Susan Diamond 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.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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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