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The Alexander Grass 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.

$7.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$2.4M
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$20MEducation$17MPhilanthropy$5.8MInternational$4.2MArts & Culture$3.4MReligion$1.8MFood & Nutrition$160kHuman Services$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $380k
  • $250k+7 grants · $6.6M
$250,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HSBG$2,350,000
FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MED CN$1,750,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND$1,025,000
PIEDMONT HOSPITAL$750,000
UIAJFNA$250,000
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$250,000
CASA CHARTER SCHOOL$250,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-LLAN UNIVER$200,000
ERASE PTSD NOW$100,000
UF FOUNDATION$80,000
NEVE MICHAEL CHILDREN'S VILLAGE$40,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL$25,000
CAPITAL REGION LITERACY COUNCIL$25,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $500k → 14%PIEDMONT HOSPITAL: $750k → 13%UIAJFNA: $700k → 22%US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $500k → 14%PIEDMONT HOSPITAL: $750k → 13%UIAJFNA: $700k → 22%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2.0M → 19%CASA CHARTER SCHOOL: $250k → 12%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-LLAN UNIVER: $1.6M → 17%US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $500k → 14%PIEDMONT HOSPITAL: $750k → 13%UIAJFNA: $650k → 22%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2.0M → 19%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-LLAN UNIVER: $1.6M → 17%US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $500k → 14%PIEDMONT HOSPITAL: $250k → 13%UIAJFNA: $650k → 22%BETH AM SYNAGOGUE: $395k → 19%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-LLAN UNIVER: $1.6M → 17%US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $250k → 14%UIAJFNA: $350k → 22%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2.0M → 19%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HSBG: $2.4M → 12%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-LLAN UNIVER: $1.6M → 17%US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $250k → 14%UIAJFNA: $350k → 22%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HSBG: $1.5M → 12%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-LLAN UNIVER: $1.2M → 17%US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $250k → 14%UIAJFNA: $300k → 22%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1.5M → 19%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HSBG: $1.5M → 12%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-LLAN UNIVER: $200k → 17%UIAJFNA: $250k → 22%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $500k → 19%THE JERUSALEM FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 17%THE JERUSALEM FOUNDATION: $545k → 17%FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MED CN: $2.5M → 17%FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MED CN: $2.1M → 17%FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MED CN: $1.9M → 17%FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MED CN: $1.8M → 17%FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MED CN: $850k → 17%FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MED CN: $730k → 17%FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MED CN: $530k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND: $1.0M → 17%JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL: $1.0M → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND: $179k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIV: $327k → 17%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

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NY
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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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$50M · 24 repeat orgs$683k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
8

Total granted

$50M
$433k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+24%

Still filing today

58%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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
HealthEducationInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $10M · revenue +834% · 40% of their budget
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $8.0M · revenue +64%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HBG
    one grant, 2017 · $160k
  • PH
    Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +13%
  • AC
    AZRIELI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
    one grant, 2020 · $55k

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
The Shalem Foundation

To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.

Crime & Legal
2
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
3
Penn Hillel

The mission of penn hillel is to identify and prioritize the important issues and needs of our local and global community, then organize and mobilize human and financial resources to successfully impact them. penn hillel focuses on jewish…

Education
4
The Haron Dahan Fund for Bar-Ilan University in Israel

The fund's primary exempt mission is to solicit grants and contributions to support the educational mission of the bar-ilan university's azrieli faculty of medicine in the galilee.

Education
5
American Society for Technion Israel Institute of Technology Inc

The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)

International
6
American Friends of Kohelet Policy Forum

The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.

7
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc

Friends of united hatzalah, inc .(fouh) raises and provides funding to not-for-profit organizations that provide medical and trauma-related first responder services in israel and around the world. fouh focuses the majority of its support…

Arts & Culture
8
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
9
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
10
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
11
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
12
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

To promote, encourage, aid and advance higher and secondary education, research and training in all branches of knowledge. as the standard bearer of excellence, the university strives to ensure and foster outstanding achievements in all…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gamut Theatre Group. 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, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
17/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-LLAN UNIVER — $8,161,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-LLAN UNIVERJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HSBG — $5,375,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HSBGUIAJFNA — $3,950,000 · OtherUIAJFNAJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL — $1,075,000 · Other+11 more — $2,336,200 · Other+11 moreFRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER INC — $10,400,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDIC…UPMC PINNACLE FOUNDATION — $2,500,000 · HealthUPMC PINNACLE FOUNDATIONPiedmont Hospital Inc — $2,500,000 · HealthPiedmont Hospital Inc+2 more — $350,000 · HealthJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $8,000,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIV…+3 more — $271,036 · EducationThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $2,750,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $42,000 · Arts & CultureJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC — $1,774,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $426,668 · InternationalNeve Michael Childrens Village Inc — $345,000 · International+1 more — $10,000 · InternationalPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $1,635,500 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $110,000 · PhilanthropyCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK — $50,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$20,897,200Health$15,750,000Education$8,271,036Arts & Culture$2,792,000International$2,555,668Philanthropy$1,745,500Food & Nutrition$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER INC — $10,400,000 over 8y, 40% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $8,000,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $2,750,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetUPMC PINNACLE FOUNDATION — $2,500,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetPiedmont Hospital Inc — $2,500,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC — $1,774,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $1,635,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $426,668 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNeve Michael Childrens Village Inc — $345,000 over 8y, 9.7% of budgetERASE PTSD NOW INC — $250,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $110,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CAPITAL REGION LITERACY COUNCIL — $102,700 over 4y, 30% of budgetPiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAKI ALSOP CONDUCTING FELLOWSHIP INC — $32,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetGamut Theatre Group — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC — $8,336 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Who funds UPMC PINNACLE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Piedmont Hospital Inc
  • Who funds JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds Neve Michael Childrens Village Inc
  • Who funds ERASE PTSD NOW INC
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC
  • Who funds THE CAPITAL REGION LITERACY COUNCIL
  • Who funds Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc
  • Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK
  • Who funds THE TAKI ALSOP CONDUCTING FELLOWSHIP INC
  • Who funds CULTURAL ENRICHMENT FUND
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF TSAD KADIMA
  • Who funds Gamut Theatre Group
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY 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.

The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Alexander Grass 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
202122232425
no gov · 50%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report 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, FY2025

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 Alexander Grass Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Alexander Grass 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 34 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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