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The Ettinger Foundation Inc

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.

$635k
Granted FY2024still arriving
77
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.0MEducation$485kHealth$294kPhilanthropy$171kPublic Benefit$160kHuman Services$152kInternational$122kCivil Rights$117kOther$0
02FY2024 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k47 grants · $220k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $415k
$5,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME$30,000
UPSTATE FILMS LIMITED$30,000
HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$25,000
FILM INDEPENDENT$25,000
NDH FOUNDATION$25,000
AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME$15,000
HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$15,000
PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION$15,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$15,000
ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC$15,000
TIDES CENTER$15,000
ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING$10,000
ORFEO ENSEMBLE INC$10,000
DAY ONE$10,000
CHICKEN & EGG PICTURES$10,000
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 (FY23–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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%WORKMONEY FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%MENTIS: $2k → 9%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $23k → 17%BRIGID ALLIANCE: $16k → 17%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

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WA
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DC
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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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 64 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

64 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
168

Total granted

$1.5M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+7%

Still filing today

59%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesPublic BenefitHealthOther
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

  • UF
    UPSTATE FILMS LTD
    3× · 2020–2024 · $128k · revenue +222%
  • AA
    AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +81%
  • HV
    HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $87k · revenue +330%

Funded once

  • AA
    American Academy in Rome
    one grant, 2020 · $33k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $23k · revenue +14%
  • HF
    Homes for Our Troops (HOME FOR)
    one grant, 2022 · $22k
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 Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
United States Artists Inc

To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.

Arts & Culture
4
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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7
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
8
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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9
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
10
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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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.

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12
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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Whittier College. 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

130 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. 130 of the 270 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
130/130
Grantees still filing
76/130
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American Academy in Rome (357): $75,000 · Other+131 more: $1,582,100 · Other+131 moreUPSTATE FILMS LTD: $127,500 · Arts & CultureUPSTATE FILMS LTDHUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC: $87,000 · Arts & CultureHUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPE…FILM INDEPENDENT: $50,000 · Arts & CultureFILM INDEPENDENTCHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC: $44,000 · Arts & CultureCHICKEN & EGG FILMS IN…MEDIA ART XPLORATION INC: $28,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $27,500 · Arts & Culture+21 more: $218,100 · Arts & Culture+21 moreFOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO: $30,000 · EducationMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $30,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK: $13,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA FARMWORKER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCommunities For A New California Education Fund: $10,000 · EducationTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationWhittier College: $8,000 · EducationThe Prentice School: $7,000 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $7,000 · EducationSYNERGY SCHOOL: $7,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE CUSHING ACADEMY: $7,000 · Education+3 more: $15,000 · EducationAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $100,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 · InternationalTHRESHOLD FOUNDATION: $8,800 · InternationalREFUGEPOINT INC: $7,500 · InternationalNEW VENTURE FUND: $45,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $17,000 · EnvironmentInfact DBA Corporate Accountability: $11,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $10,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN AND PROSPEROUS AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $6,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NETWORK: $5,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT: $5,000 · EnvironmentEVERGREEN COLLABORATIVE: $5,000 · EnvironmentNDH Foundation: $32,500 · HealthSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthBREASTCANCERORG: $22,500 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $19,000 · HealthThank You Life: $9,000 · HealthVIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED: $5,000 · HealthTIDES CENTER: $45,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $23,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesCOLUMBIA OPPORTUNITIES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$1,657,100Arts & Culture$582,100Education$179,000International$141,300Environment$124,000Health$118,000Human Services$109,000

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUPSTATE FILMS LTD: $127,500 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC: $87,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC: $44,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNDH Foundation: $32,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA ART XPLORATION INC: $28,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $23,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBREASTCANCERORG: $22,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNative American Heritage Association: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OLANA PARTNERSHIP: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDAY ONE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIMAGINE SCIENCE FILMS CORP: $20,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSundance Institute: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA CRUZ MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGLYNWOOD CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK: $13,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPHILIPSTOWN DEPOT THEATRE INC: $12,500 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetInfact DBA Corporate Accountability: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBASILICA ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPoints North Institute: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Common Ground: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOCEANA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA OPPORTUNITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA FARMWORKER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds UPSTATE FILMS LTD ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds FILM INDEPENDENT ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC ↗
  • Who funds NDH Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA ART XPLORATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds BREASTCANCERORG ↗
  • Who funds Native American Heritage Association ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds DAY ONE ↗

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 Educational Foundation of AmericaMD49.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Educational Foundation of America · Clean and Prosperous America · Impactassetsinc · The San Francisco Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · United States Energy Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund 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 Ettinger Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ettinger Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Phame Academy: 0% of income from government
  • Infact Dba Corporate Accountability: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
21report 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Ettinger 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 270 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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