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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.

$2.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$650k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $369k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+1 grant · $650k
$25,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TENEO NETWORK INC$100,000
INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS FOCUSED SERVICE$100,000
DO NO HARM$100,000
NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION$100,000
FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS & EXPRESSION INC$50,000
DISAGREE WISELY INC$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF AUSTIN$50,000
CIVILIZATION WORKS$50,000
INFORMING AMERICA FOUNDATION$50,000
JEWISH STUDENT ENRICHMENT ROHR CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE - TRICHABAD$50,000
02The need
02

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PALS PROGRAMS: $25k → 6%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $5k → 7%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

ME
WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
VA
DC
TX
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 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.

1
Litigators for Liberty Network

Support public interest litigators by leveraging resources and creating opportunities for collaboration to advance freedom under the rule of law.

Crime & Legal
2
Liberty Justice Center

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…

Crime & Legal
3
Mit Free Speech Alliance

To promote free expression, academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, and open scientific inquiry in the MIT community

Civil Rights
4
The Public Interest Law Center

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…

Crime & Legal
5
Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology Inc

Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.

Science & Tech
6
Foreign Policy for America

Foreign Policy For America is a nonpartisan advocacy organization founded to strengthen support for principled American engagement in the world.

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7
Jewish Electorate Institute

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…

Civil Rights
8
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
9
First Liberty Institute

First liberty institute provides pro bono legal services to advance and defend religious liberty for individuals, churches, and other ministries and organizations.

Civil Rights
10
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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11
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
12
Pew Research Center

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…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philanthropy Roundtable; 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.
03the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 50 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
17/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY COUNCIL INC: $650,000 · InternationalELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY…PEACE THROUGH COMMERCE INC: $25,000 · InternationalDonors Trust Inc: $200,000 · PhilanthropyDonors Trust IncTeneo Network Inc: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTeneo Network IncCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCHAPEL & YORK US FOU…THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $15,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyINSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS FOCUSED SERVICE: $100,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS FOCUSED…UNIVERSITY OF AUSTIN: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF AUSTINJEWISH STUDENT ENRICHMENT ROHR CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE - TRICHABAD: $50,000 · OtherJEWISH STUDENT ENRICHMENT ROHR…DISAGREE WISELY INC: $50,000 · OtherDISAGREE WISELY INCCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER: $25,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $50,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGH…MASSACHUSETTS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $25,000 · OtherTHE MUSEUM OF SPORTS: $21,945 · OtherINFORMING AMERICA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherINFORMING AMERICA FOUNDATIONCIVILIZATION WORKS: $50,000 · OtherCIVILIZATION WORKSJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL VALUES INC: $30,500 · OtherPALS Programs: $25,000 · Other+17 more: $88,000 · Other+17 moreFRIEND MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $150,000 · EducationFRIEND MEM…Moms for Liberty: $25,000 · EducationMoms for L…CB COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $25,000 · EducationCB COMMUNI…Philadelphia Flyers Alumni Association: $10,000 · Education+3 more: $16,250 · Education+3 moreNATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY: $25,000 · Crime & LegalPacific Legal Foundation: $25,000 · Crime & LegalTHE FAIRNESS CENTER INC: $16,250 · Crime & LegalJOB CREATORS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $125,000 · EmploymentDO NO HARM: $100,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
International$675,000Philanthropy$416,000Other$640,445Education$226,250Crime & Legal$166,250Employment$125,000Public Safety & Disaster$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY COUNCIL INC: $650,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetNATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALS Programs: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCB COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE FAIRNESS CENTER INC: $16,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPhiladelphia Flyers Alumni Association: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetGREATER SANTA BARBARA ICE SKATING ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREAL CLEAR FOUNDATION: $6,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK PASTORS UNITED FOR EDUCATION: $3,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrooklin Volunteer Fire Company: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHosts for Hospitals: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTHY PENINSULA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 Snider FoundationDonors Trust IncThe Lindy Snider Foun…Bradley Impact Fund I…The Jay and Terry Sni…Erlbaum Family Founda…Another Light Foundat…The Searle Freedom Tr…Diana Davis Spencer F…The Lynde and Harry B…Jewish Federation of …Maine Community Found…
The Snider FoundationPA48.6× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Craig Snider Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Craig Snider Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report 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
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Craig Snider Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Craig Snider 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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