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The Gloria and Jacquin D Bierman Foundation

Its FY2025 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
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Animals$7kEnvironment$5kReligion$5kInternational$2kPhilanthropy$550Crime & Legal$275Civil Rights$275Health$200Other$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$94k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Healy Pack Senior GSD Sanctuary Inc$4,350
To Ocean Conservancy Inc$2,500
The Nature Conservancy$2,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KEEPERS OF THE WILD: $100 → 17%IFAW: $275 → 8%MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION: $275 → 8%MUSTARD SEED PROJECT: $2k → 10%TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $100 → 10%CASTLETON RANCH HORSE RESCUE: $100 → 11%BABY RHINO RESCUE: $275 → 14%WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS: $275 → 17%BAYITH LEPLEITOT INC: $100 → 20%SMILING DOG FARMS: $275 → 15%AMERICAN FORESTS: $275 → 14%Healy Pack Senior GSD Sanctuary Inc: $4k → 12%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADAM: $275 → 13%The Nature Conservancy: $3k → 15%WHITE WOLF SANCTUARY: $275 → 16%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HELPING: $275 → 14%HOOVES AND PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $275 → 9%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $100 → 12%NOAH'S LOST ARK: $275 → 19%AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF S: $100 → 14%FRIENDS OF THE CORNELL: $275 → 7%WOUNDED PAW PROJECT: $275 → 6%ARABIAN RESCUE MISSION: $275 → 17%ANIMAL EQUALITY: $275 → 14%JEWISH HEALTH: $100 → 17%COLEL CHABAD: $2k → 20%To Ocean Conservancy Inc: $3k → 14%TALMUDIC UNIVERSITY: $2k → 15%ASPCA: $275 → 17%KUPAS RABBEINU: $275 → 20%ASPCA: $100 → 17%CHMOL: $275 → 20%AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SANZ: $275 → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
International Primate Protection League

Protecting the world's remaining primates by monitoring and exposing illegal trade, supporting a worldwide network of overseas sanctuaries and ngo's, publicising the plight of abused primates, and operating a sanctuary for resued gibbons.

Animals
3
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
4
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
5
Wildlife Sos

Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.

Animals
6
Animal Nation Inc

Animal welfare organization providing rescue, rehabilitation, and adoption for wild, domestic, and farmed animals.

Animals
7
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
8
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
9
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
10
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
11
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
12
Wildlife Protection Solutions

To protect endangered species.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Castleton Ranch Horse Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%38%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%24%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%20%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,541

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HEALY PACK SENIOR GSD SANCTUARY INC — $4,350 · OtherHEALY PACK SENIOR GSD SANCTUARY INCTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $2,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTALMUDIC UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · OtherTALMUDIC UNIVERSITYCOLEL CHABAD — $2,000 · OtherCOLEL CHABAD+11 more — $2,325 · Other+11 moreOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $2,500 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVAN…American Forests — $275 · EnvironmentAmerican Forest…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $100 · EnvironmentTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $375 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN S…INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $275 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL …THE ARABIAN RESCUE MISSION INC — $275 · AnimalsTHE ARABIAN RE…SMILING DOG FARMS — $275 · AnimalsSMILING DOG FA…NOAH'S LOST ARK INC — $275 · AnimalsNOAH'S LOST AR…WHITE WOLF SANCTUARY — $275 · AnimalsWHITE WOLF SAN…BABY RHINO RESCUE — $275 · AnimalsBABY RHINO RES…WOUNDED PAW PROJECT — $275 · AnimalsWOUNDED PAW PR…Animal Equality — $275 · AnimalsAnimal Equalit…Keepers of the Wild — $100 · AnimalsTHE MUSTARD SEED PROJECT — $2,000 · InternationalTHE MUSTARD …AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SANZ INSTITUTIONS IN ISRAEL INC — $275 · InternationalAMERICAN COM…MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN — $275 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $100 · Health
Other$13,175Environment$2,875Animals$2,675International$2,275Crime & Legal$275Health$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED PROJECT — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $375 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Forests — $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARABIAN RESCUE MISSION INC — $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILING DOG FARMS — $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOAH'S LOST ARK INC — $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SANZ INSTITUTIONS IN ISRAEL INC — $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE WOLF SANCTUARY — $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABY RHINO RESCUE — $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED PAW PROJECT — $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Equality — $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN — $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASTLETON RANCH HORSE RESCUE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBL GIRLS TOWN JERUSALEM INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKeepers of the Wild — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Surendra and Karen Gu…Joyce a Ward Foundati…Bradford Family Found…PC Fund for Animals C…The Joselow FoundationSeckinger Foundation …Farrell Family Founda…Rhm Foundation IncRatna Sabapathy Famil…Bernard Weinberg Foun…Edwin D Marks Animal …The Susan and Ford Sc…
Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc FoundationMO22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · Joyce a Ward Foundation · Bradford Family Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · The Joselow Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Farrell Family Foundation · Rhm Foundation Inc · Ratna Sabapathy Family Foundation I · Bernard Weinberg Foundation · Edwin D Marks Animal Foundation · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Gloria and Jacquin D Bierman Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report 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

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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