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The Argo Family Fund at a glance

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The Argo Family 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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

98% of The Argo Family Fund’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Greater Atlanta Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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20
’18
13
’19
8
’20
0
’21
0
’22
0
’23
1
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$13MEducation$505kReligion$135kHuman Services$83kInternational$45kCivil Rights$38kYouth Development$35kArts & Culture$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.5M
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA$2,491,297
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$25,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND$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 (FY17–19, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH INTEREST FREE LOAN OF ATLANTA: $10k → 4%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $19k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $15k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA: $2k → 14%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
OH
MD
DC
GA
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 22 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +50% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
12

Total granted

$4.2M
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+50%

Still filing today

64%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’23’24
Human ServicesEducationReligionInternationalCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TF
    THE FELICIA PENZELL WEBER JEWISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $390k · revenue +226%
  • II
    IMPACTISRAEL INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $45k · revenue +35%
  • IT
    IN THE CITY CAMP INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $35k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • JW
    JEWISH WOMENS FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $16k
  • UF
    UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • JI
    JEWISH INTEREST FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +13%
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.

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The Jerusalem Connection
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2
Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International
3
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
4
J Leaders

Our vision is to develop ethical, impactful Jewish young adult leaders to ensure a vibrant Jewish community and make the world a better place. Our mission is to empower and engage Jewish young adults through leadership development and…

Youth Development
5
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
6
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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7
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Delegation of Jewish American Students (Dojas)
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9
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services
10
Gainesville Jewish Student Foundation Inc

The gainesville jewish student foundation, inc. (known as schilit hillel at uf) mission: schilit hillel at uf enriches the lives of jewish students, inspiring them to make an enduring commitment to jewish life, learning, and israel

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11
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
12
Abraham Joshua Heschel School

The abraham joshua heschel school is an independent jewish day school which includes students from a wide range of jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs. (see schedule o for continuation)

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Jewish Academy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Angels Among Us. 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

22 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. 22 of the 36 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
21/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $9,943,552 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyFIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND: $3,268,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND+19 more: $369,433 · Other+19 moreTHE FELICIA PENZELL WEBER JEWISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $390,000 · EducationThe George Washington University: $25,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $34,000 · Human ServicesCREATING CONNECTED COMMUNITIES INC: $14,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH INTEREST FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesHONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC: $31,500 · ReligionJewish Community Legacy Project Inc: $15,000 · ReligionMETRO ATLANTA COMMUNITY MIKVAHINC: $14,000 · ReligionIMPACTISRAEL INC: $45,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED: $10,000 · InternationalANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $20,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $17,500 · Civil Rights
Philanthropy$9,944,552Other$3,637,433Education$420,000Human Services$60,500Religion$60,500International$55,000Civil Rights$37,500

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $9,943,552 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetTHE FELICIA PENZELL WEBER JEWISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $390,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetIN THE CITY CAMP INC: $35,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $34,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC: $31,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe George Washington University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe William Breman Jewish Home Inc: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Legacy Project Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetCREATING CONNECTED COMMUNITIES INC: $14,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetMETRO ATLANTA COMMUNITY MIKVAHINC: $14,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetHillels of Georgia Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetATLANTA GROUP HOME INC: $10,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH INTEREST FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR GREATER SAVANNAH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetATLANTA JEWISH ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $1,000 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 Marcus Foundation…The Frank Family Foun…Jewish Federation of …Ron and Lisa Brill Ch…Hms Foundation IncHenry and Etta Raye H…V' Al Kol Yisrael Fou…Cooper Family Foundat…Hookeedoo Foundation …The Zaban Foundation …Halpern-Oppenheimer F…Horowitz Family Found…
The Marcus Foundation IncGA30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Marcus Foundation Inc · The Frank Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Ron and Lisa Brill Charitable Trust · Hms Foundation Inc · Henry and Etta Raye Hirsch Heritage Foundation Inc · V' Al Kol Yisrael Foundation Inc · Cooper Family Foundation Inc · Hookeedoo Foundation Inc · The Zaban Foundation Inc · Halpern-Oppenheimer Family Foundation · Horowitz Family 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 Argo Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Argo Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%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
    2get no government money at all
    3report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Argo Family Fund?

    Find your warmest path to The Argo Family Fund 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 36 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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