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The Eugene Birnbaum Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Eugene Birnbaum 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.

$9k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$19kArts & Culture$10kHealth$10kEducation$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kEnvironment$3kSocial Science$2kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
7
States reached
$80k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE B'NAI SHALOM$3,376
CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE$2,250
PHOENIX CLUB DEUTSCHKLASSE$1,000
CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION$1,000
CENTREVILLE HIGH SCHOOL$500
WIKIPEDIA$250
MADISON PROJECT DBA THE BROAD STAGE$250
PBS SO CAL$180
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION$100
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$100
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$100
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$100
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 (FY23–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $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
NJ
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$47k · 20 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
20

Total granted

$47k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+25%

Still filing today

50%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationInternationalEnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • Teach for America Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +20%
  • HT
    HEAL THE BAY
    3× · 2017–2023 · $3k · revenue +34%
  • CS
    CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +22%
  • LF
    LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -13%
  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · 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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
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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5
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
6
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
7
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
8
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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9
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
10
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
11
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parkinson's Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Southwestern Youth Association Inc. 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

25 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. 25 of the 44 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE B NAI SHALOM: $15,797 · OtherTEMPLE B NAI SHALOMPHOENIX CLUB DEUTSCHKLASSE: $8,000 · OtherPHOENIX CLUB DEUTSCHKLASSETEMPLE MENORAH: $2,000 · OtherKASKASKIA COLLEGE: $2,000 · OtherCENTREVILLE HIGH SCHOOL: $1,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,500 · Other+21 more: $10,450 · Other+21 moreCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $2,250 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH …LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,500 · HealthLUPUS FOUNDATION…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,400 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITI…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,250 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHO…American Heart Association Inc: $700 · HealthAmerican Heart A…PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $500 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUN…+2 more: $500 · Health+2 moreTeach for America Inc: $3,000 · EducationThe George Washington University: $500 · Education+2 more: $200 · EducationHEAL THE BAY: $2,700 · EnvironmentCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHWESTERN YOUTH ASSOCIATION INC: $1,250 · Youth Development
Other$41,497Health$9,100Education$3,700Environment$2,700Philanthropy$2,000Human Services$2,000Youth Development$1,250

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 budgetTeach for America Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEAL THE BAY: $2,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN YOUTH ASSOCIATION INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON PROJECT: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL AT THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY INC: $720 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBread for the World Institute: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShelters for Israel: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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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How do I get to The Eugene Birnbaum Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Eugene Birnbaum 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 44 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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