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The Abraham Foundation

The Abraham Foundation is on a mission to protect threatened animals, wild and domestic, who have no voice of their own.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Animals$223kFood & Nutrition$10kHealth$7kCivil Rights$4kHuman Services$500International$500Arts & Culture$220
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $197,477, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,873,269 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,675,792 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $68k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Wildlife Madagascar$109,800
Boscobel$20,000
Lukuru Wildlife Research F$15,000
Wild Bird Fund$12,677
Polar Bears International$10,000
Gibbon Conservancy Center$10,000
Fistula Foundation$5,000
Food Bank For New York Cit$5,000
Friends of Bonobos$5,000
Gods Love We Deliver$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Fistula Foundation: $5k → 8%Wildlife Madagascar: $110k → 11%Gibbon Conservancy Center: $10k → 14%Boscobel: $20k → 6%Burns Film Center: $220 → 9%Selfhelp Community Services Foundat: $500 → 17%International Crane Foundation: $500 → 9%Lukuru Wildlife Research F: $15k → 10%Saras Santucary: $5k → 9%Sherman Hoffman Wildlife: $2k → 5%Global Wildlife: $3k → 11%Friends East San Jose: $500 → 8%Gibbon Conservancy Center: $3k → 14%Boscobel: $20k → 6%Ctr for Reproductive Rights: $2k → 17%Gibbon Conservancy Center: $2k → 14%Planned Parenthood: $2k → 17%Food Bank For New York Cit: $5k → 17%Treadwell Farms Historic District: $550 → 17%Brennan Center for Justice: $2k → 17%Wild Bird Fund: $13k → 17%Wild Bird Fund: $5k → 17%Gods Love We Deliver: $5k → 17%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

WA
MT
WI
NY
OH
NJ
CA
NC
LA
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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$72k · 3 repeat orgs$172k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$72k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+5%

Still filing today

100%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionEnvironmentCivil 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

  • BR
    BOSCOBEL RESTORATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k
  • WB
    WILD BIRD FUND INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $18k · revenue +7%
  • GC
    Gibbon Conservation Center
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • SS
    SARAS SANCTUARY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -14%
  • GW
    GLOBAL WILDLIFE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -80%
  • New Jersey Audubon Society
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +21%
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
Born Free Foundation
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2
Wild Earth Allies Inc

Our mission is to protect vital areas of our planet for wildlife and people through local conservation action. Our vision is a world where wildlife and people flourish in healthy ecosystems that sustain us all.

Environment
3
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc

The Fossey Fund is dedicated to the conservation and study of gorillas in Africa through a successful, people-centered approach: 1) Providing daily protection to gorillas, 2) Scientific research providing critical data on gorillas and…

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4
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
5
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
6
Wildlife Sos

Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.

Animals
7
International Primate Protection League

Protecting the world's remaining primates by monitoring and exposing illegal trade, supporting a worldwide network of overseas sanctuaries and ngo's, publicising the plight of abused primates, and operating a sanctuary for resued gibbons.

Animals
8
Gorilla Rehabilitation Conservation Education (Grace) Center Inc

Grace gorillas is an international ngo working hard to provide excellent care and rewild rescued grauers gorillas while working alongside congolese communities to promote the conservation of wild gorillas and their habitat.

Animals
9
African Wildlife Foundation Inc

Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…

Animals
10
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
11
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
12
Wildlife Conservation Global Inc

Wildlife conservation global, inc. operates the okapi conservation project (ocp) which works in the democratic republic of the congo with the institute in congo for the conservation of nature (iccn) and local communities throughout the…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Bird Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Boscobel Restoration Inc. 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

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
10/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Wildlife Madagascar: $109,800 · AnimalsWildlife MadagascarWILD BIRD FUND INC: $17,677 · AnimalsWILD BIRD FUND INCLUKURU WILDLIFE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $15,000 · AnimalsLUKURU WILDLIFE RESEARCH FOUNDATIONPOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · AnimalsPOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL+4 more: $13,125 · Animals+4 moreBOSCOBEL RESTORATION INC: $40,000 · OtherBOSCOBEL RESTORATION…THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $2,000 · Other+5 more: $3,270 · Other+5 moreGibbon Conservation Center: $14,500 · Youth DevelopmentThe Fistula Foundation: $5,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,000 · HealthFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5,000 · Community ImprovementGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionNew Jersey Audubon Society: $2,000 · Environment
Animals$165,602Other$45,270Youth Development$14,500Health$7,000Community Improvement$5,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Environment$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOSCOBEL RESTORATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWILD BIRD FUND INC: $17,677 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGibbon Conservation Center: $14,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSARAS SANCTUARY: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $2,625 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNew Jersey Audubon Society: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HUE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC: $220 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.

The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • New Jersey Audubon Society: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report 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, 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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How do I get to The Abraham Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Abraham 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 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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