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The Abramson Family Foundation at a glance

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The Abramson Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$18MHealth$11MReligion$1.2MInternational$998kPhilanthropy$865kArts & Culture$220kPublic Benefit$50kHuman Services$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $247k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $550k
  • $250k+2 grants · $4.0M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER$2,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$2,000,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$200,000
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE$100,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES$100,000
ISRAEL ADVOCACY GROUP$50,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH CNY$50,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES$50,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LUBAVITCH$30,000
TEAM IMPACT$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$25,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$25,000
LUBAVITCH GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL$24,000
Individual grant recipient$21,500
THE BECK INSTITUTE FOR COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY$18,000
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 (FY21–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%JFCS: $5k → 22%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

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
VA
MD
DC
FL
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 18 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
35

Total granted

$11M
$4.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+18%

Still filing today

72%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $231k 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
HealthEducationArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • JM
    Jupiter Medical Center Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $6.0M · revenue +20%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +45%
  • FF
    Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $468k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • JM
    Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2.0M · revenue +99%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • MD
    MAGEN DAVID ADOM USA
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
5
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
6
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
9
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is MyClinic Inc dba HealthyMe. 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

40 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. 40 of the 67 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)
40/40
Grantees still filing
31/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $17,422,600 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA+7 more: $200,753 · EducationJupiter Medical Center Inc: $6,000,000 · HealthJupiter Medical Center IncTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $2,553,880 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PH…+8 more: $189,000 · HealthIndividual grant recipient: $1,000,000 · OtherIndividual …CONGREGATION BETH OR: $588,723 · OtherCONGREGATIO…MAGEN DAVID ADOM USA: $500,000 · OtherMAGEN DAVID…JACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY: $400,000 · OtherJACK M BARR…+26 more: $816,714 · Other+26 moreJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter M…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $400,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FE…JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $250,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FE…TEAM IMPACT INC: $110,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $468,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $450,000 · InternationalTHE ISRAEL ADVOCACY GROUP: $50,000 · International+2 more: $10,000 · InternationalMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $149,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $25,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $6,000 · Arts & CultureBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $5,000 · Human ServicesSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER: $100 · Science & Tech
Education$17,623,353Health$8,742,880Other$3,305,437Philanthropy$2,775,000International$978,000Arts & Culture$190,000Human Services$30,000Science & Tech$100

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $17,422,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Inc: $6,000,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $2,553,880 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $2,000,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $468,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $400,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY: $400,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $250,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $149,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTEAM IMPACT INC: $110,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUBAVITCH GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL INC: $94,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ISRAEL ADVOCACY GROUP: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPLYMOUTH COMMUNITY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMINDING YOUR MIND: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $20,878 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEMPLE HILLEL: $15,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $12,875 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVINCERA FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMyClinic Inc dba HealthyMe: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER: $100 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 Saramar Charitabl…Jewish Federation of …Jewish Communal FundEquitable Foundation …The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…
The Saramar Charitable FundPA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Saramar Charitable Fund · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Jewish Communal Fund · Equitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Abramson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Abramson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Jupiter Medical Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Abramson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Abramson Family 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 67 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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