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The Adam Frand Foundation

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.

$13k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$28kHealth$15kFood & Nutrition$14kEnvironment$12kCivil Rights$10kCrime & Legal$7kYouth Development$6kHousing & Shelter$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$195k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Care Foundation$2,500
Downtown Women's Center$2,000
FOOD ON FOOT$2,000
PROJECT ROPA$2,000
CHIRLA$2,000
The Trevor Project$1,000
School on Wheels$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 10%Al Otro Lado: $3k → 11%Downtown Women's Center: $2k → 14%Al Otro Lado: $2k → 11%Downtown Women's Center: $2k → 14%World Food Program: $3k → 14%PROJECT ROPA: $3k → 14%PROJECT ROPA: $2k → 14%PROJECT ROPA: $1k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT: $3k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT: $2k → 14%Homeless Health Care Los Angeles: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
PA
CT
CA
MD
DE
TN
DC
HI
AL
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$60k · 17 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
28

Total granted

$60k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+77%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCivil RightsEnvironmentHealthCrime & LegalEducationOther

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

  • PR
    Project Ropa
    3× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +49%
  • SO
    SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $6k · revenue +2%
  • AO
    AL OTRO LADO
    2× · 2019–2020 · $5k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • CE
    CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +137%
  • HH
    Homeless Health Care Los Angelesgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +97%
  • YE
    YOUTH EMERGING STRANGER
    one grant, 2022 · $3k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
2
Public Counsel

Public counsel is a nonprofit public interest law firm dedicated to advancing civil rights and racial and economic justice, as well as to amplifying the power of our clients through comprehensive legal advocacy. (see sch o for…

Crime & Legal
3
Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice

The survivor justice center secures justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and empowers them to create their own future.

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4
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
5
California Latinas for Reproductive Justice

California latinas for reproductive justice (clrj) is a statewide organization committed to honoring the experiences of latinas to uphold our dignity, our bodies, sexuality, and families. we build latinas' power and cultivate leadership…

Health
6
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
7
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
8
California Partnership to End Domestic Violence

The organization's mission is to promote the collective voice of a diverse coalition of organizations and individuals working to eliminate all forms of domestic violence. as an advocate for sociate change, we advance our mission by…

Civil Rights
9
Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County

As a public interest law firm, NLSLA changes lives and transforms communities. Through a combination of individual representation, high impact litigation, and public policy advocacy, NLSLA combats the immediate and long-lasting effects of…

—
10
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
11
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
12
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center and the most unlike its peers is Crown Jewel Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%4%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr18%48%20–35yr11%12%35–55yr12%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%4%<5yr15%12%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr18%50%20–35yr11%10%35–55yr12%10%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%1/28
the rest of the field
14%
13,715/97,733

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.

04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 46 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
22/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Sandy Hook Promise Fund — $5,000 · OtherSandy Hook Promise FundJFS SOVA CommFoodResource Program — $4,000 · OtherJFS SOVA CommFoodResource ProgramIndividual grant recipient — $3,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYOUTH EMERGING STRANGER — $3,000 · OtherYOUTH EMERGING STRANGERSHOWER OF HOPE — $2,550 · OtherSHOWER OF HOPECare Foundation — $2,500 · OtherPETS LANDING PROJECT — $2,500 · OtherJDC — $2,000 · OtherNo Us Without You — $2,000 · OtherMY FRIENDS PLACE — $2,000 · OtherA PLACE CALLED HOME — $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $2,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER — $1,950 · OtherCAMP DEL CORAZON INC — $3,600 · OtherCAMP DEL CORAZON INCMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $2,500 · Other+11 more — $6,944 · Other+11 moreProject Ropa — $5,500 · Human ServicesProject RopaFOOD ON FOOT — $4,500 · Human ServicesFOOD ON FOOTAL OTRO LADO — $4,500 · Human ServicesAL OTRO LADODOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER — $4,000 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTERHomeless Health Care Los Angeles — $3,000 · Human ServicesHomeless Health Care Los…FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOO…COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS — $3,800 · Civil RightsCOALITION FO…TREVOR PROJECT INC — $3,750 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJE…THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $3,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER F…NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $1,500 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMM…PARENT HEART WATCH — $4,000 · HealthPARENT HE…PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES — $2,950 · HealthPLANNED P…VISION TO LEARN — $2,500 · HealthVISION TO…CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND — $3,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $2,250 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $1,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN DEFENDERS ALLIANCE — $1,000 · EnvironmentSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC — $5,500 · EducationKIND INC — $2,500 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $1,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$47,794Human Services$24,000Civil Rights$12,050Health$9,450Environment$7,250Education$5,500Crime & Legal$4,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetProject Ropa — $5,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC — $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD ON FOOT — $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAL OTRO LADO — $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARENT HEART WATCH — $4,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS — $3,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP DEL CORAZON INC — $3,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHomeless Health Care Los Angeles — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES — $2,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIND INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER — $1,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN DEFENDERS ALLIANCE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HUMANE LEAGUE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrown Jewel Club Inc — $544 over 2y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Adam Frand Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Adam Frand Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Adam Frand 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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