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The Eisner Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
140
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$525k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$11MHuman Services$7.3MArts & Culture$5.6MHealth$4.3MYouth Development$3.9MCrime & Legal$2.1MHousing & Shelter$2.0MRecreation & Sports$1.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 140 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $123k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $810k
  • $50k–250k53 grants · $5.5M
  • $250k+10 grants · $3.6M
$25,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$170M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DENISON UNIVERSITY$525,000
HEART OF LOS ANGELES$456,667
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION$451,500
EISNER HEALTH$430,000
ONEGENERATION$400,000
UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK$300,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA LA$261,014
GOODFOUNDATION$250,000
READING PARTNERS$250,000
ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY$250,000
THE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION$240,000
CSUN FOUNDATION$200,000
LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER$175,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY CHAI$175,000
826LA$169,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $6.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $50k → 16%GRANTMAKERS IN AGING: $35k → 7%HAMPTON'S WHODUNIT INC: $25k → 7%GRANTMAKERS IN AGING: $30k → 7%GOODFOUNDATION: $270k → 17%GRANTMAKERS IN AGING: $25k → 7%GOODFOUNDATION: $250k → 17%GOODFOUNDATION: $145k → 17%GOODFOUNDATION: $135k → 17%HEIGHTS AND HILLS: $50k → 20%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK: $500k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK: $350k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK: $300k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK: $250k → 17%KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $150k → 14%KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $150k → 14%KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $150k → 14%KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $150k → 14%HUDSON GUILD: $25k → 17%FUND FOR THE AGED INC: $25k → 17%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $25k → 17%THE YM & YWHA OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS & INWOOD: $35k → 17%THE YM & YWHA OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS & INWOOD: $35k → 17%THE YM & YWHA OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS & INWOOD: $25k → 17%FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%VISIONS: $25k → 17%FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%VISIONS: $25k → 17%FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%DOROT INC: $150k → 17%DOROT INC: $150k → 17%DOROT INC: $150k → 17%ENGAGE INC: $175k → 14%ENGAGE INC: $175k → 14%ENGAGE INC: $150k → 14%STARS ILLUMINATE EDUCATE ADVOCATE: $100k → 14%SAHHS FOR CAUSE: $50k → 14%STARS ILLUMINATE EDUCATE ADVOCATE: $100k → 14%THE MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $250k → 14%PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN SOUTH LA: $100k → 14%THE MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $150k → 14%HOUSE OF RUTH: $125k → 14%HOUSE OF RUTH: $113k → 14%HOUSE OF RUTH: $100k → 14%HOUSE OF RUTH: $100k → 14%HOUSE OF RUTH: $100k → 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

VT
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$42M · 156 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

156 repeat relationships: 104 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

156
103

Total granted

$42M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+7%

Still filing today

76%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $764k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • DU
    DENISON UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +20%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +172%
  • PEDIATRIC AND FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER DBA EISNER HEALTH
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • UD
    UCLA DIVISION OF GERIATRICS
    one grant, 2020 · $667k
  • TM
    THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -89%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -4%
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.

1
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

—
2
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
3
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
4
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
6
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
7
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

—
8
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
9
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Riverdale Neighborhood House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Upper Snowmass Creek Caucus. 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

231 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 231 of the 300 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
228/231
Grantees still filing
155/231
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ONEGENERATION: $1,479,000 · OtherONEGENERATIONTHE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA LA: $883,042 · OtherCIVIC VENTURES (FKA ENCOREORG): $750,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $700,000 · OtherUCLA DIVISION OF GERIATRICS: $666,667 · OtherALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $620,000 · OtherBET TZEDEK: $600,000 · OtherGROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ATHLETICS LEARNING AND SERVICE - GOALS: $975,411 · OtherGROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ATHLETICS LEARNI…THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $983,500 · OtherTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC+95 more: $10,019,185 · Other+95 moreDENISON UNIVERSITY: $2,625,000 · EducationDENISON UNIVERSITYTHE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION: $1,130,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR EARLY EDU…READING PARTNERS: $1,100,000 · EducationREADING PARTNERSST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $1,015,000 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITYCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $800,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERS…HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $694,000 · EducationHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL826LA: $661,500 · Education826LASCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $600,000 · EducationSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC+15 more: $925,500 · Education+15 moreTHE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,400,000 · Human ServicesTHE UNITED NEIGH…GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $820,000 · Human ServicesGOOD PLUS FOUNDA…THE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $620,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP F…KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $620,000 · Human ServicesKOREATOWN YOUTH …HOUSE OF RUTH INC: $537,500 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF RUTH IN…ENGAGE INC: $525,000 · Human ServicesENGAGE INCDOROT INC: $450,000 · Human ServicesDOROT INCMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $400,000 · Human ServicesMOTION PICTURE A…+20 more: $1,011,400 · Human Services+20 moreLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $2,457,460 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES…TURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $350,000 · Arts & CultureTURNAROUND …HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $300,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST M…HAMILTON-MADISON HOUSE INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureHAMILTON-MA…MUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $150,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC: $150,000 · Arts & Culture+19 more: $722,000 · Arts & Culture+19 moreHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $1,695,001 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $700,000 · Youth DevelopmentOPERATION JUMP START: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEDIATRIC AND FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER DBA EISNER HEALTH: $1,730,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $350,000 · HealthDEAR JACK FOUNDATION INC: $115,000 · Health+5 more: $145,000 · HealthGENERATIONS UNITED INC: $830,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HEART FOUNDATION: $350,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $150,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $101,000 · PhilanthropyNEW YORK CARES INC: $75,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $125,000 · Philanthropy
Other$17,676,805Education$9,551,000Human Services$6,383,900Arts & Culture$4,429,460Youth Development$2,495,001Health$2,340,000Philanthropy$1,631,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $2,625,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $2,457,460 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPEDIATRIC AND FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER DBA EISNER HEALTH: $1,730,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $1,695,001 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetONEGENERATION: $1,479,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetTHE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,400,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION: $1,130,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $1,100,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $1,015,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $983,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ATHLETICS LEARNING AND SERVICE - GOALS: $975,411 over 5y, 21% of budgetGENERATIONS UNITED INC: $830,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $820,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $800,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $700,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $700,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $694,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budget826LA: $661,500 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $620,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $620,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetKOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $620,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBET TZEDEK: $600,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $600,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetL A WORKS INC: $575,000 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetCIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE: $550,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH INC: $537,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetENGAGE INC: $525,000 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetEL NIDO FAMILY CENTERS: $455,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $450,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDOROT INC: $450,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $450,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $400,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $400,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $350,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetTHE HEART FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $350,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPF Bresee Foundation: $330,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $300,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHAMILTON-MADISON HOUSE INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL: $300,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPS ARTS: $275,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION: $214,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLAKE AVENUE FOUNDATION INC DBA STARS ILLUMINATE EDUCATE ADVOCATE: $200,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $197,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAGES AND SEEKERS INCORPORATED: $190,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetHASER Inc: $160,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PEDIATRIC AND FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER DBA EISNER HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds ONEGENERATION ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ATHLETICS LEARNING AND SERVICE - GOALS ↗
  • Who funds GENERATIONS UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR ↗
  • Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds 826LA ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BET TZEDEK ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds L A WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds ENGAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds EL NIDO FAMILY CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds DOROT INC ↗
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF LOS ANGELES ↗

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 Annenberg Foundat…The Rose Hills Founda…The Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…Weingart FoundationCalifornia Community …The Green FoundationElbridge Stuart Found…S Mark Taper Foundati…Liberty Hill Foundati…United Way IncJewish Community Foun…
The Annenberg FoundationPA48.5× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Annenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Green Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · United Way Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Asbury Park Music Foundation Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
58report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Eisner Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Eisner Foundation Inc 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 300 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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