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THANKS TO SCANDINAVIA INC
Thanks to scandinavia, a scholarship fund, recognizes the ordinary people who performed extraordinary acts in scandinavia and bulgaria during wwii that saved tens of thousands of their jewish neighbors.
$292k
Granted FY2024
5
Grants
3
Communities
$39k
Largest
01What you fund
0183% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Education$377kArts & Culture$150kHealth$67kOther$120k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
education research
2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
johns hopkinssystemhopkins medicinemusic
2024
georgetownmusic
2025
filmexcellenceeducation research
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$39,441
- MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC$30,000
- GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$20,000
- BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC$20,000
- NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$10,000
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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 13%. 83% 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.
68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$487k · 6 repeat orgs$227k to everyone else
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
6
5
Total granted
$487k
$207k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+18%
+26%
Still filing today
83%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationArts & CultureHealthOther
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
- CUCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY4× · 2019–2024 · $139k · revenue +13%
CORNELL UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2023 · $108k · revenue +17%- MSMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- MOMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGEone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -7%
- TLTHE LOUIS ARMSTRONG DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC THERAPY AT MOUNT SINAIone grant, 2020 · $47k · revenue -3%
- JHJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +68%
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.
1
New York Medical College
Educate physicians, scientists, public health specialists & other healthcare professionals.
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2
Philadelphia University
To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.
Education
3
Columbia College
Columbia College improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Education
4
Yale University
To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.
Education
5
The Rockefeller University
A world-renowned center for research and graduate education.
Education
6
New York Institute of Technology
We are committed to educating the next generation of leaders and inspiring innovation. (see sch o)
Education
7
Long Island University
Provide excellence and access in education to those who seek to expand their knowledge. see sch o.
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8
New York Law School
The mission of new york law school is to provide its students with knowledge, skill (see schedule o) and ethical values needed for a career in law.
Education
9
York University
Provide post secondary education to students in various fields.the university is a four year accredited post secondary education institution offering bachelor's degrees in various areas. the university offers on-site learning and provides…
Education
10
Columbia College Chicago
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Education
11
Washington University
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
Education
12
St John's University New York
St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornell University and the most unlike its peers is Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$377,265Arts & Culture$150,000Other$120,000Health$67,384
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 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CORNELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC THERAPY AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation THANKS TO SCANDINAVIA INC 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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: MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~2 months of operating runway; revenue held over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 133376265 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 MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE, 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
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% 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 Thanks to Scandinavia Inc?
Find your warmest path to Thanks to Scandinavia Inc 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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