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The Abstraction Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GATESTONE INSTITUTE | $300,000 |
| MIDDLE EAST FORUM | $16,000 |
| DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER | $10,000 |
| JCC ROCKLAND | $6,000 |
| IBSI | $5,300 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHET EILON INC | $2,500 |
| JEWISH INST FOR NAT'L SECRUITY AMERICA | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RERESEARCH - EVAL - PROMOTING ORG RESPON & TRANSPARENCY - REPORT - INC2× · 2020–2023 · $50k · revenue +10%
- MEMIDDLE EAST FORUM3× · 2020–2024 · $46k · revenue +38%
- MEMIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC4× · 2020–2023 · $45k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- TIThe Israel Group Incone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -12%
- JCJERUSALEM CENTER FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRSone grant, 2022 · $15k
- TTTHE TIKVAH FUNDone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -6%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
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.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…
The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…
Educating members and the general public regarding various issues related to american foreign policy by publishing educational materials and holding conferences
To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gatestone Institute and the most unlike its peers is Kenneth & Nira Abramowitz Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 67 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 GATESTONE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH - EVAL - PROMOTING ORG RESPON & TRANSPARENCY - REPORT - INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST FORUM ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY ↗
- Who funds JCC ROCKLAND INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHET EILON INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Israel Group Inc ↗
- Who funds AHA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Independent Women's Forum ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds WILD TOMORROW FUND ↗
- Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds American Spectator Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TIKVAH FUND ↗
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- Who funds UNLEASH PROSPERITY INC ↗
- Who funds RADICAL HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds America First Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR JEWISH COMMUNITY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds WOODSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NEWS SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Henkes Foundation · Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc · The Sandra & Lawrence Post Family Foundation · Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · The Searle Freedom Trust · The Randolph Foundation · Bailey Family Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Abstraction Fund 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.
- Aha Foundation Inc — 42% of income from government
- Jackson Health Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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