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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 it funds
01FY2017 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$2,000
JINSA$2,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$2,000
INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORISM$2,000
MIDDLE EAST FOUNDATION$1,500
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS$1,000
IN SHIFRA'S ARMS$1,000
CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY$1,000
ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA$1,000
CUFI$700
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.

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Its 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. Its 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
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 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.

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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…

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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…

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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
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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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Committee for Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem Inc; 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 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. 12 of the 21 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
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Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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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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 Suzanne and Alan Peyser Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Suzanne and Alan Peyser Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Round House Theatre Inc: 5% 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, 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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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