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The Craig Snider Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $369k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $650k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY COUNCIL INC | $650,000 |
| DONORS TRUST INC | $200,000 |
| FRIEND MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY | $150,000 |
| JOB CREATORS NETWORK FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS FOCUSED SERVICE | $100,000 |
| TENEO NETWORK INC | $100,000 |
| DO NO HARM | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| DISAGREE WISELY INC | $50,000 |
| JEWISH STUDENT ENRICHMENT ROHR CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE - TRICHABAD | $50,000 |
| INFORMING AMERICA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS & EXPRESSION INC | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AUSTIN | $50,000 |
| CIVILIZATION WORKS | $50,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Support public interest litigators by leveraging resources and creating opportunities for collaboration to advance freedom under the rule of law.
To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…
To promote free expression, academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, and open scientific inquiry in the MIT community
The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…
Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.
Foreign Policy For America is a nonpartisan advocacy organization founded to strengthen support for principled American engagement in the world.
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…
To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.
First liberty institute provides pro bono legal services to advance and defend religious liberty for individuals, churches, and other ministries and organizations.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
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.
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philanthropy Roundtable and the most unlike its peers is Brooklin Volunteer Fire Company. 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 15 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 50 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 ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Donors Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIEND MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds JOB CREATORS NETWORK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DO NO HARM ↗
- Who funds Teneo Network Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds INFORMING AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CIVILIZATION WORKS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL VALUES INC ↗
- Who funds Moms for Liberty ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds PALS Programs ↗
- Who funds CB COMMUNITY SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds PEACE THROUGH COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF SPORTS ↗
- Who funds THE FAIRNESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds The Chevra Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DEBORAH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Philadelphia Flyers Alumni Association ↗
- Who funds GREATER SANTA BARBARA ICE SKATING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds REAL CLEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
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: The Snider Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · The Lindy Snider Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Jay and Terry Snider Foundation · Erlbaum Family Foundation · Another Light Foundation · The Searle Freedom Trust · Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Maine Community Foundation Inc
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 Craig Snider 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.
- Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra Inc — 7% 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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