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Suzanne and Alan Peyser Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$48k
Granted FY2017
21
Grants FY2017
8
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$114k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHABAD OF BETHESDA (YAD ZLATA)$9,700
Individual grant recipient$8,500
SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES$5,000
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK$4,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$2,000
INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORISM$2,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$2,000
JINSA$2,000
MIDDLE EAST FOUNDATION$1,500
IN SHIFRA'S ARMS$1,000
CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY$1,000
ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA$1,000
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS$1,000
CUFI$700
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%IN SHIFRA'S ARMS: $1k → 8%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 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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The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

2
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
3
United Israel Appeal Inc

The principal function of uia is to administer and supervise the funds allocated for philanthropic purposes related to immigration and absorption of humanitarian migrants to israel and jewish identity programs in israel and the former…

International
4
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
5
Sherit Isroel
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Institute for Defense Analyses

The institute for defense analyses is organized for the purpose of applied research. the institute for defense analyses provides independent and objective scientific and technological expertise to assist national security decision-makers…

Science & Tech
7
American Friends of Mosdos Montreal Inc

To promote and enhance jewish religious observance in canada

Religion
8
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
9
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

10
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
11
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
12
Foundation Stone Institute Inc

To promote a positive relationship between catholics and israelis.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Committee for Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem Inc and the most unlike its peers is In Shifras Arms Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 21 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.

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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHABAD OF BETHESDA (YAD ZLATA) — $9,700 · OtherCHABAD OF BETHESDA (YAD ZLATA)Individual grant recipient — $8,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientINVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORISM — $2,000 · OtherINVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORISMMIDDLE EAST FOUNDATION — $1,500 · OtherMIDDLE EAST FOUNDATIONINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC — $1,000 · Other+5 more — $1,700 · Other+5 moreFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc — $5,000 · InternationalFoundation for the Defense of Democraci…AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC — $4,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOS…JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA — $2,000 · InternationalJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY …FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $2,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $2,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMCENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC — $1,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INCATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC — $670 · InternationalSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · HealthSUBURBAN HO…ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA — $1,000 · ReligionIN SHIFRAS ARMS INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC — $200 · Arts & Culture
Other$24,400International$16,670Health$5,000Religion$1,000Human Services$1,000Arts & Culture$200

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC — $670 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC — $200 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover 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 Suzanne and Alan Peyser 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.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • Round House Theatre Inc5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Suzanne and Alan Peyser Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Suzanne and Alan Peyser 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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