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The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation

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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
107
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$509k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.2MHealth$2.9MInternational$2.5MScience & Tech$2.2MPhilanthropy$1.6MReligion$1.2MArts & Culture$1.0MHuman Services$540kOther$0
02FY2024 · 107 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k52 grants · $193k
  • $10k–50k42 grants · $764k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $826k
  • $250k+2 grants · $805k
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$508,912
Individual grant recipient$296,494
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON$116,667
GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION$110,000
WORLD JEWISH RELIEF INC$100,000
SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$100,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$75,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$66,667
CONGREGATION B'NAI TZEDEK$57,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GALILEE MEDICAL CENTER$50,000
CENTER FOR ISRAEL STUDIES - AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$50,000
BUONICONTI FOUNDATION TO CURE PARALYSIS$50,000
CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON$50,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$45,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$35,000
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 (FY17–24, $537k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 6%CHILDREN WITH HAIR LOSS: $3k → 10%CHAD TOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FDN: $8k → 14%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 6%CHAD TOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 6%CHAD TOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $20k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $20k → 6%JEWISH ADOPTIONS&FOSTER CARE OPTIONS: $5k → 13%SOS INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 8%MIAMI DIAPER BANK: $5k → 15%MIAMI DIAPER BANK: $5k → 15%MIAMI DIAPER BANK: $5k → 15%MIAMI DIAPER BANK: $2k → 15%SOS INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 8%SOS INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 8%SOS INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 8%SOS INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 8%SOS INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 8%SOS INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 8%SOS INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $20k → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $15k → 8%COLOMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 14%COLOMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 14%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $10k → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $10k → 8%COLOMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 14%COLOMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 14%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGON: $7k → 8%COLUMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 14%JEWISH COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $5k → 8%COLOMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 14%COLOMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 14%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $2k → 8%COLOMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 14%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGON: $2k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCY: $5k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCY: $4k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCY: $4k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCY: $4k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCY: $4k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCY: $3k → 8%MONTGOMERY HOSPICE: $2k → 8%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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 142 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

142 repeat relationships: 82 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

142
94

Total granted

$15M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+11%

Still filing today

69%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $972k 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +26%
  • SH
    SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $807k · revenue +44%
  • HI
    HEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $423k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $484k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $301k
  • AU
    AMERICAN UNIVERSITY (KERWIN FAMILY FUND)
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
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 Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
2
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
3
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
4
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
5
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.

—
6
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
7
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
8
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
9
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Institute for Applied Gerontology

The mjhs institute for innovation in palliative care is a not-for-profit organization. the institute is dedicated to promoting access to evidence-based, specialist-level palliative care for patients and families coping with serious or…

Human Services
12
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Loudoun Serenity House. 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

174 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. 174 of the 262 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
166/174
Grantees still filing
117/174
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AM COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INST OF SCIENCE: $2,232,500 · OtherAM COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INST OF SCIENCECONGREGATION BNAI TZEDEK: $560,500 · OtherCONGREGATION BNAI TZEDEKIndividual grant recipient: $508,912 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $483,873 · Other+102 more: $5,346,330 · Other+102 moreAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1,718,316 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSIT…DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM: $375,000 · EducationDISTRICT OF COLUMB…NORWOOD SCHOOL INC: $187,920 · EducationNORWOOD SCHOOL INCTHE TORAH SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $135,000 · EducationHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED: $132,000 · EducationTHE DIENER SCHOOL INC: $114,500 · Education+15 more: $385,500 · Education+15 moreSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $807,000 · HealthSUBURBAN H…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $203,660 · HealthCHILDREN'S…Friends of Cancer Research: $200,000 · HealthFriends of…HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $82,500 · HealthMIAMI JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEMS FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · HealthBREM FOUNDATION TO DEFEAT BREAST CANCER: $75,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $63,200 · Health+11 more: $223,500 · Health+11 moreAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $650,000 · InternationalAMERICAN I…PROJECT MEDISHARE FOR HAITI INC: $268,000 · InternationalPROJECT ME…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $238,333 · InternationalJEWISH NAT…Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $75,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $75,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $60,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $60,000 · InternationalBest Buddies International Inc: $60,000 · International+10 more: $224,734 · International+10 moreTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $936,666 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWIS…GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $360,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER M…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $107,500 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAE…+8 more: $103,500 · Philanthropy+8 moreHEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC: $422,500 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $287,332 · Arts & CultureMount Vernon Virtuosi Inc: $95,000 · Arts & CultureLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $33,333 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $151,884 · Arts & CultureSOS INTERNATIONAL INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $190,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $57,050 · Human ServicesGreater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd: $28,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $21,500 · Human Services+5 more: $56,517 · Human Services
Other$9,132,115Education$3,048,236Health$1,734,860International$1,711,067Philanthropy$1,507,666Arts & Culture$990,049Human Services$553,567

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 budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1,718,316 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $936,666 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $807,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $650,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC: $422,500 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM: $375,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $360,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD JEWISH RELIEF USA INC: $300,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $287,332 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT MEDISHARE FOR HAITI INC: $268,000 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $238,333 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican University Hillel Inc: $225,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $203,660 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSOS INTERNATIONAL INC: $200,000 over 8y, 55% of budgetFriends of Cancer Research: $200,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $190,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetNORWOOD SCHOOL INC: $187,920 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES: $163,333 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetTHE TORAH SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $135,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED: $132,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN: $127,712 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DIENER SCHOOL INC: $114,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE SUNDARI FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $107,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALS ASSOCIATION DCMDVA CHAPTER: $106,967 over 7y, 20% of budgetMount Vernon Virtuosi Inc: $95,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetHEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $82,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEMS FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $75,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFISHER ISLAND PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC: $75,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetBREM FOUNDATION TO DEFEAT BREAST CANCER: $75,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMontgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation Inc: $67,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetTHE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL: $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $63,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $60,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $57,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $57,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $57,050 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWASHINGTON NATIONALS YOUTH BASEBALL ACADEMY: $56,253 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetThe George Washington University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $47,001 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $41,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $40,000 over 4y, 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 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD JEWISH RELIEF USA INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT MEDISHARE FOR HAITI INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds American University Hillel Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Cancer Research ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds NORWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES ↗
  • Who funds THE TORAH SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds HASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds THE DIENER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SUNDARI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALS ASSOCIATION DCMDVA CHAPTER ↗

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.

Galena-Yorktown Found…The Rona and Jeffrey …The Morris and Gwendo…The Jewish Federation…Greater Washington Co…Clark-Winchcole Found…Alan and Amy Meltzer …The Dennis Berman Fam…The Annette M Lerner …Bender Foundation IncThe Gary & Carol Berm…The Carl M Freeman Fo…
Galena-Yorktown FoundationDC56.6× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Galena-Yorktown Foundation · The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Alan and Amy Meltzer Family Foundation Inc · The Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc · The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc · Bender Foundation Inc · The Gary & Carol Berman Family Foundation Inc · The Carl M Freeman 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 Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 290%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Greater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd: 28% of income from government
  • Art Works Studio School Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Moco Kidsco Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Imagination Stage Inc: 13% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc: 10% of income from government
  • The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Sundari Foundation Inc: 5% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Round House Theatre Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Cornerstone Montgomery: 3% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • National Center for Children and Families: 2% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Miami Music Project Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Torah School of Greater Washington Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Center for Hope Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Bender Jcc of Greater Washington: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
  • Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jackson Health Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Project Medishare for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Mcdonogh School Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
29get no government money at all
32report 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 Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable 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 262 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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