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The Aber D Unger Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Aber D Unger Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$406k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$408kEducation$392kCrime & Legal$265kInternational$199kCivil Rights$187kHuman Services$72kPublic Benefit$65kPhilanthropy$48kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $288k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROPUBLICA$75,000
FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE$45,000
ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND$30,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND$30,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE HIGHLINE$20,000
TRACE MEDIA$20,000
AL OTRO LADO$18,000
OGUNQUIT MUSEUM OF THE ARTS$15,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$15,000
PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION$10,001
AMICA CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS$10,000
RAW TRUST - INGOMA FOUNDATION$10,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$10,000
LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SAN DIEGO: $8k → 11%AL OTRO LADO: $8k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SAN DIEGO: $8k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SAN DIEGO: $7k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%AL OTRO LADO: $18k → 11%AL OTRO LADO: $15k → 11%AL OTRO LADO: $12k → 11%AL OTRO LADO: $10k → 11%BOWERY RESIDENT'S COMMITTEE INC: $5k → 17%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES: $5k → 19%BUILDING OUR NATION'S DAUGHTERS: $3k → 19%BUILDING OUR NATION'S DAUGHTERS: $2k → 19%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

ME
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
TX
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 33 repeat orgs$197k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
20

Total granted

$1.5M
$167k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+12%

Still filing today

79%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • Teach for America Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $130k · revenue +5%
  • EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $130k · revenue +28%
  • PRO PUBLICA INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $123k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • MA
    MARYLAND ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
    one grant, 2023 · $27k · revenue +3%
  • OS
    OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE - BALTIMORE
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
How this is measured

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

04Its 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.

1
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
5
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
6
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
7
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
8
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
9
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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10
National Immigration Forum

The forum advocates for the value of immigrants and immigration to the nation. from a diversity of perspectives, the forum uses communication, advocacy and policy to create a vision, concensus and strategy to lead to a better, more…

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11
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
12
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Democracy Forward Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

43 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. 43 of the 57 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/43
Grantees still filing
29/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRO PUBLICA INC: $122,500 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INCTRACE MEDIA INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTRACE MEDIA INCFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LIN…ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR LEARNING MARYL…THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN VISIONARY …+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $157,000 · EducationFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EX…Teach for America Inc: $130,000 · EducationTeach for America IncWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION IN…WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITYJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $12,500 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE: $35,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMM…OGUNQUIT MUSEUM OF THE ARTS: $30,000 · OtherOGUNQUIT MUSEUM OF THE ARTSBALTIMORE COMMUNITY MEDIATION CENTER: $30,000 · OtherBALTIMORE COMMUNITY MEDIATION…OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE - BALTIMORE: $25,000 · OtherOPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE - BALT…AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL: $23,000 · OtherUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF TUCSONNO MORE DEALTHS: $20,000 · OtherFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $45,000 · OtherFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK…BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 · OtherBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $37,000 · OtherPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFI…PROJECT PNEUMA INC: $22,500 · OtherMARYLAND ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS: $26,500 · OtherMARYLAND ASSOCIATION OF NON-P…+18 more: $123,001 · Other+18 moreEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $130,000 · Crime & LegalEVERYTOWN FOR…CAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $25,000 · Crime & LegalCAPITAL AREA …The Hampden Family Center Inc: $22,500 · Crime & LegalThe Hampden F…JUSTICE INNOVATION INC: $17,500 · Crime & LegalJUSTICE INNOV…DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Crime & LegalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $110,000 · InternationalMEDECINS S…International Rescue Committee INC: $47,000 · InternationalInternatio…WITNESS INC: $7,500 · InternationalAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $42,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $42,000 · Civil RightsLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $22,000 · Civil RightsAL OTRO LADO: $62,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $27,500 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesBOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesBuilding Our Nations Daughters Inc: $4,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$372,500Education$367,000Other$454,501Crime & Legal$205,000International$164,500Civil Rights$106,000Human Services$104,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $157,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $130,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $122,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $110,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRACE MEDIA INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAL OTRO LADO: $62,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $47,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $42,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $42,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $37,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS: $26,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL: $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT PNEUMA INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetThe Hampden Family Center Inc: $22,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTICE INNOVATION INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $10,001 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUpstream USA Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWITNESS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR A NEW AMERICAN ECONOMY RESEARCH FUND: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMentoring Male Teens in the Hood Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOLD YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT OWN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetGLOBAL WITNESS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetItineris Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBuilding Our Nations Daughters Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 1.1% 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.

T Rowe Price Foundati…France-Merrick Founda…Baltimore Community F…The Harry and Jeanett…David & Barbara B Hir…The United Way of Cen…Associated Jewish Cha…T Rowe Price Program …Annie E Casey Foundat…Fund for Educational …John D and Catherine …The Wolman Family Fou…
T Rowe Price FoundationMD21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: T Rowe Price Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Wolman Family Foundation Inc

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 The Aber D Unger Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Aber D Unger Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Center for Urban Families Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations: 27% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
  • The American Visionary Art Museum Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Upstream Usa Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Maryland Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report 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.

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 57 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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