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Susan R Mackler Fund Co Sally Mackler

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$319k
Granted FY2019
2
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$316k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172019.

Philanthropy$319kEnvironment$31kAnimals$6kArts & Culture$4kHealth$4k
02FY2019 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $250k+1 grant · $316k
$315,737
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED F$315,737
FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED F$2,896
02The need
03

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 (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECT: $3k → 7%AN RTS COALITION: $1k → 11%EARTH JUSTICE: $3k → 10%WILDEARTH GUARDIANS: $1k → 12%INST 4 SLF REL: $2k → 14%PREDATOR DEFENSE: $2k → 15%PBS FNDT: $2k → 7%WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECT: $3k → 7%AN RTS COALITION: $1k → 11%EARTH JUSTICE: $3k → 10%WILDEARTH GUARDIANS: $1k → 12%INST 4 SLF REL: $2k → 14%PREDATOR DEFENSE: $2k → 15%PBS FNDT: $2k → 7%NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $1k → 14%WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CTR: $1k → 15%NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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.

12%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$44k · 12 repeat orgs$320k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2019, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
1

Total granted

$44k
$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+114%
+135%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $319k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EnvironmentAnimalsOther

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

  • WW
    WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +114%
  • EARTHJUSTICE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +82%
  • AW
    Alaska Wildlife Alliance
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue ×27

Funded once

  • WE
    WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +135%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field
04the grantee network

7 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED F — $318,633 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED F+8 more — $23,000 · Other+8 moreWESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC — $6,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE — $5,000 · EnvironmentAlaska Wildlife Alliance — $4,000 · EnvironmentPREDATOR DEFENSE — $4,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $3,000 · Animals
Other$341,633Environment$15,000Animals$7,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlaska Wildlife Alliance — $4,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILDEARTH GUARDIANS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE
  • Who funds Alaska Wildlife Alliance
  • Who funds PREDATOR DEFENSE
  • Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds WILDEARTH GUARDIANS
  • Who funds WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Susan R Mackler Fund Co Sally Mackler 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.

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2021222324
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2024

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Susan R Mackler Fund Co Sally Mackler?

    Find your warmest path to Susan R Mackler Fund Co Sally Mackler 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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