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· Private foundation
STUART & BENJAMIN ABELSON FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$300k
Granted FY2024
13
Grants
8
Communities
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
0164% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Philanthropy$665kInternational$445kEnvironment$270kArts & Culture$160kCivil Rights$6kOther$869k
02FY2024 · 13 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
- THRESHOLD FOUNDATION$60,000
- INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$55,000
- CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST$40,000
- ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CENTER$30,000
- PEACE DEVELOPMENT FUND$30,000
- RESCUE RELEASE AND RESTORE$20,000
- COMPANIS$15,000
- POWER OF HOPE$10,000
- NORTH COAST CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC$10,000
- OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC$10,000
- FARM & WILDERNESS$10,000
- CHESTERTON ART CENTER$5,000
- REINS OF LIFE INC$5,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 66% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 18 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else
18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
18
0
Total granted
$2.4M
$0
Still filing today
56%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
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
- CCCHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST8× · 2017–2024 · $665k · revenue +252%
- TFTHRESHOLD FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $355k · revenue +7%
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +113%
Funded once
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Artist Trust
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
Arts & Culture
2
Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
Arts & Culture
3
Chicago City Theatre Company
Develop Chicago's native talent pool in a welcoming environment that celebrates multiculturalism & ethnic diversity.
Arts & Culture
4
The Impact Fund
To provide grants, advocacy, and education to support impact litigation on behalf of communities seeking economic, environmental, racial, and social justice.
Unclassified
5
Chicago Fair Trade
Chicago Fair Trade cultivates a community dedicated to an economy that values the labor & dignity of all people. CFT is the largest grassroots fair trade coalition in the United States. We increase support for economic and environmental…
Education
6
Artsfund
Strengthen the community by supporting the arts through leadership, advocacy, and grant making.
Arts & Culture
7
Chicago Sinfonietta Inc
Chicago Sinfonietta is a professional orchestra dedicated to modeling and promoting diversity, inclusion, and both racial and cultural equity in the arts through the universal language of symphonic music. Our core values are built around…
Arts & Culture
8
Common Counsel Foundation
Ccf advances equity and environmental health through a combination of direct grant making and strategic philanthropic advising for client member funds and manages projects focused on organizational development, leadership sustainability…
Community Improvement
9
Rivendell Theatre Ensemble
Rivendell Theatre Ensemble is a professional Equity company dedicated to elevating the lives of women through the power of theatre.
Arts & Culture
10
Arts West
ArtsWest produces artistic events that provoke conversation, incite the imagination, and use live theater as a powerful agent of change.
Arts & Culture
11
Seattle Chamber Music Festival
To foster the appreciation of chamber music in our region by presenting performances featuring world-class musicians in accessible and inviting formats, with an emphasis on developing a broad-based sustainable audience through education…
Arts & Culture
12
Visceral Dance Chicago Nfp
Visceral Dance Chicago is a contemporary company dedicated to providing a comprehensive environment designed to cultivate dance education, creation and performance for choreographers, dancers, and artists.
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Old Town School of Folk Music and the most unlike its peers is Diverse Harmony. 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
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$869,000Philanthropy$665,000International$445,000Environment$270,000Arts & Culture$160,000Civil Rights$6,000
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 CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds THRESHOLD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PEACE DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTH COAST CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FARM & WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC ↗
- Who funds REINS OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds DIVERSE HARMONY ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Amazonsmile FoundationWA2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 organisation STUART & BENJAMIN ABELSON 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CENTER.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~171 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.1× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 264767097 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CENTER, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 171 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 20% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Stuart & Benjamin Abelson Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Stuart & Benjamin Abelson Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines