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The Abrams Charitable Trust at a glance

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The Abrams Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$713k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$178k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$585kEducation$201kAnimals$24kScience & Tech$9kRecreation & Sports$5k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $8k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $704k
$172,660
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND$178,311
ALZHEIMER DRUG DISCOVERY FUND$177,284
CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE$176,104
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATI$172,660
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATI$4,982
ALZHEIMERS DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATIO$1,983
CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE$1,484
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND: $178k → 7%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $176k → 17%SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATI: $173k → 13%Rails to Trails Conservancy: $2k → 9%Friends of Madison County Parks Tra: $1k → 10%PILOT DOGS INC: $5k → 15%Foundation for the NIH: $14k → 8%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1k → 17%SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATI: $5k → 13%RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $1k → 9%PILOT DOGS INC: $5k → 15%FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: $10k → 8%ALZHEIMER DRUG DISCOVERY FUND: $177k → 17%SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATI: $5k → 13%RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $910 → 9%Pilot Dogs Inc: $5k → 15%Foundation for the National Institu: $9k → 8%ALZHEIMERS DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATIO: $2k → 17%SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATI: $5k → 13%PILOT DOGS INC: $3k → 15%FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: $8k → 8%Special Operations Warrior Fndn: $5k → 13%Pilot Dogs Inc: $3k → 15%Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: $5k → 8%SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%PILOT DOGS INC: $3k → 15%CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%Special Operations Warrior Foundati: $3k → 13%Lifeline of Ohio: $2k → 15%Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: $3k → 8%SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%LIFELINE OF OHIO: $1k → 15%CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%Lifeline of Ohio: $1k → 15%LIFELINE OF OHIO: $910 → 15%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.
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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$279k · 6 repeat orgs$545k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$279k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+87%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $535k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationEnvironmentSocial ScienceOther
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

  • SO
    SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $201k · revenue +224%
  • Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc
    3× · 2019–2021 · $32k · revenue +46%
  • PD
    PILOT DOGS ALLOWAY
    6× · 2018–2023 · $24k · revenue +206%

Funded once

  • FF
    Foundation for the National Institu
    one grant, 2018 · $9k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MADISON COUNTY PARKS & TRAILSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +87%
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
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
3
Critical Path Institute

The critical path institute is a catalyst in the development of new approaches that advance medical innovation and regulatory science. this is achieved by leading teams that share data, knowledge and expertise resulting in sound, consensus…

Health
4
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
5
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
6
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
7
The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration

Promote and fund research into developing better diagnostic processes, therapies, and cures for frontotemporal degeneration (ftd); provide information, education, support and advocacy to persons diagnosed with ftd, their families and…

Health
8
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
9
Alzheimers Research Association
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10
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
11
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
12
Animal Cancer Foundation

Animal cancer foundation is dedicated to finding new treatments and eventual cures for cancer by funding research in and increasing public awareness of comparative oncology, the study of naturally occurring, similar cancers in people and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Madison County Parks & Trails. 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $178,311 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATIONCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $177,588 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $31,953 · HealthFoundation for the National Institutes of Health IncCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $13,693 · Health+1 more: $4,573 · HealthALZHEIMER DRUG DISCOVERY FUND: $177,284 · OtherALZHEIMER DRUG DISCOVERY FUNDPILOT DOGS ALLOWAY: $23,833 · OtherPILOT DOGS ALLOWAYFoundation for the National Institu: $9,000 · Other+1 more: $3,653 · OtherSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $201,475 · EducationSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR …ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $1,983 · Social ScienceFRIENDS OF MADISON COUNTY PARKS & TRAILS: $1,000 · Environment
Health$406,118Other$213,770Education$201,475Social Science$1,983Environment$1,000

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 budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $201,475 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $178,311 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $177,588 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $31,953 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPILOT DOGS ALLOWAY: $23,833 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $13,693 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLifeline of Ohio Organ Procurement Inc: $4,573 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $1,983 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MADISON COUNTY PARKS & TRAILS: $1,000 over 1y, 3.2% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Abrams Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Abrams Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get 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 · 0–5%
    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.

    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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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