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The Gary and Judith Kaufman Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Gary and Judith Kaufman 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.

$13k
Granted FY2022
26
Grants FY2022
12
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2022.

Religion$34kInternational$9kEducation$3kHuman Services$3kAnimals$1kArts & Culture$1kHealth$1kFood & Nutrition$350Other$0
02FY2022 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
12
States reached
$11k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lifetime Wells International$3,500
Melville Chapel U M C$3,140
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Talbot Community Connections Inc$1,000
Unity Washington United Methodist C$750
Tunnel to Towers Foundation$528
Christian Appalachian Project$325
Howard Lodge No 101$300
The Brighter Christmas Fund$300
St Mark's U M C$300
St Jude$300
Mercy Ships$250
Samaritan's Pursue$100
Shriners Hospitals for Children$100
Smile Train$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 (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Guiding Eyes for the Blind: $100 → 9%Talbot Community Connections Inc: $1k → 10%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

MT
IL
NY
IA
PA
CT
VA
MD
DE
KS
TN
NC
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$44k · 14 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
15

Total granted

$44k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+40%

Still filing today

43%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • LW
    LIFETIME WELLS INTERNATIONAL
    2× · 2021–2022 · $7k · revenue +71%
  • BC
    BRIGHTER CHRISTMAS FUND INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $1k · revenue +72%
  • DC
    DELMARVA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +194%

Funded once

  • SM
    St Matthews U M C
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • DN
    DELMARVA NESTING FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +12%
  • LT
    Life Time Wells International
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
2
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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3
Help Me See Inc

Simulation based eye surgery training to create access to quality cataract surgery worldwide.

Health
4
International Needs

International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.

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5
Medical Missions Outreach Inc

In 2005, medical missions outreach began pointing others to the great physician through an annual medical missions trip to the developing world by partnering with local churches to reach their communities with the gospel. now more than 20…

International
6
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
7
Stc Healthcare Partners Llc

Website: https://towerhealth.org/locations/st-christophers-hospital- children stc opco, llc (st. christopher's hospital for children) provides a full range of high-quality healthcare services to all children and youth up to age 21 who seek…

Health
8
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
9
St Lukes Episcopal-Presbyterian Hospitals

We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.

Health
10
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
11
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
12
The Shriners' Hospital for Children

Shriners children's is committed to compassionate, high-quality care that improves children's lives, in a family-centered and collaborative environment. (continued on schedule o)

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Believe in Tomorrow National Children's Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Taneytown Lions Baseball. 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

23 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. 23 of the 46 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
19/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Melville Chapel U M C: $15,340 · OtherMelville Chapel U M CSt Mathews U M C: $7,750 · OtherSt Mathews U M CUnity Washington United Methodist C: $7,603 · OtherUnity Washington United Methodist CSt Matthews U M C: $1,500 · Other+29 more: $9,300 · Other+29 moreLIFETIME WELLS INTERNATIONAL: $7,000 · PhilanthropyLIFETIME WELLS…+1 more: $50 · PhilanthropyDELMARVA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $1,100 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $528 · EducationELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $500 · EducationTALBOT COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $325 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $100 · Human ServicesDELMARVA NESTING FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · AnimalsCOMPANIMALS PET RESCUE INC: $300 · AnimalsMercy Ships International: $250 · InternationalWINGS OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $100 · InternationalSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $300 · Religion
Other$41,493Philanthropy$7,050Education$2,128Human Services$1,425Animals$1,300International$350Religion$300

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 budgetLIFETIME WELLS INTERNATIONAL: $7,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBRIGHTER CHRISTMAS FUND INC: $1,200 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDELMARVA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTALBOT COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDELMARVA NESTING FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $528 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPANIMALS PET RESCUE INC: $300 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTANEYTOWN LIONS BASEBALL: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING UP MISSION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $50 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Gary and Judith Kaufman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gary and Judith Kaufman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Helping Up Mission Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Delmarva Christian Schools Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 Gary and Judith Kaufman 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 46 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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