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The Gottesman Fund at a glance

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The Gottesman Fund

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.

$84M
Granted FY2024still arriving
99
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$29M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$55MInternational$52MEducation$37MArts & Culture$14MReligion$7.3MFood & Nutrition$6.8MRecreation & Sports$5.9MPhilanthropy$4.9MOther$0
02FY2024 · 99 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $606k
  • $50k–250k45 grants · $5.3M
  • $250k+23 grants · $78M
$100,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$1.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$29,300,197
PEF - ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FD$22,704,000
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$4,711,995
MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM$4,085,346
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY$3,000,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC$2,400,000
AMJEWISH JOINT DIST COMMITTEE INC$1,875,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN$1,666,667
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER$1,364,943
UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$1,315,000
NEFESH B'NEFESH JEWISH SOULS UNITED INC$1,000,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA$500,000
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL$500,000
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY$498,333
THE LEFFELL SCHOOL$425,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $15.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%TIVNU BUILDING JUSTICE: $75k → 12%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $125k → 9%THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC: $75k → 13%TIVNU BUILDING JUSTICE: $75k → 12%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $75k → 9%THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC: $25k → 13%TIVNU BUILDING JUSTICE: $25k → 12%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $50k → 9%TIVNU BUILDING JUSTICE: $25k → 12%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $50k → 9%SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $400k → 10%GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA: $200k → 10%GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA: $200k → 10%BRONXWORKS INC: $200k → 28%SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $135k → 10%JEWISH ASSOC FOR SERVICES FOR THE AGED: $75k → 17%FAMILY LEGAL CARE: $75k → 17%THE BRIDGE: $5k → 17%MET COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $300k → 17%MET COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $150k → 17%MET COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $105k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $4.1M → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $2.9M → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $1.3M → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $1.2M → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $1.2M → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $250k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $150k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $150k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $150k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $75k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $100k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $50k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $200k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $150k → 17%DOROT INC: $100k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $100k → 17%DOROT INC: $75k → 17%DOROT: $50k → 17%DOROT INC: $50k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $50k → 17%DOROT INC: $50k → 17%BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $50k → 17%SERVICE PROGRAM FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $30k → 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

VT
NH
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$187M · 116 repeat orgs$8.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

116 repeat relationships: 79 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

116
55

Total granted

$187M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+19%

Still filing today

78%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthInternationalReligionOther
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

  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $11M · revenue +37%
  • AM
    American Museum of Natural History
    3× · 2021–2024 · $10M · revenue +24%
  • YU
    YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6.0M · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDENgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +43%
  • CU
    CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
    one grant, 2021 · $300k
  • BRONXWORKS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +41%
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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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2
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
3
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…

—
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
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
6
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
8
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
9
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
12
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan; the most unlike its peers is 9 Million Reasons 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

156 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. 156 of the 195 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
155/156
Grantees still filing
103/156
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEF - ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FD: $47,186,696 · OtherPEF - ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FDALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $41,358,274 · OtherALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE+111 more: $32,637,281 · Other+111 moreYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $6,000,000 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERS…The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $5,498,333 · EducationThe New York Pu…ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL: $3,746,111 · EducationABRAHAM JOSHUA …UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,387,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF V…The Frisch School: $2,025,000 · EducationThe Frisch Scho…Golda Och Academy: $1,423,950 · EducationYESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $1,170,000 · Education+22 more: $4,069,250 · Education+22 moreMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $10,670,692 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $555,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $550,000 · Human ServicesSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $535,000 · Human Services+16 more: $3,115,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Museum of Natural History: $10,011,825 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $1,666,667 · Arts & CultureZAMIR CHORAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,046,000 · Arts & CultureLEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC: $890,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $1,342,400 · Arts & CultureUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $3,600,805 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $3,600,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $535,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND: $500,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $265,000 · PhilanthropyCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $5,713,000 · Recreation & Sports+4 more: $215,000 · Recreation & SportsFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $2,945,881 · Youth DevelopmentWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $1,085,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $305,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $35,000 · Youth Development
Other$121,182,251Education$27,319,644Human Services$15,425,692Arts & Culture$14,956,892Philanthropy$8,500,805Recreation & Sports$5,928,000Youth Development$4,370,881

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 budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $10,670,692 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $10,011,825 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $6,000,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $5,713,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $5,498,333 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL: $3,746,111 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $3,600,805 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $3,600,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,387,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $2,945,881 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetThe Frisch School: $2,025,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $1,666,667 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGolda Och Academy: $1,423,950 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $1,364,943 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $1,170,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $1,085,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetZAMIR CHORAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,046,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $1,025,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetNefesh B'Nefesh Jewish Souls United Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $925,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetLEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC: $890,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetSHEFA SCHOOL: $825,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $775,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMILTON GOTTESMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL: $750,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $610,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $555,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $550,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTORAH ACADEMY OF BERGEN COUNTY: $540,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $535,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $535,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $535,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetLURIA ACADEMY OF BROOKLYN: $525,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $500,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $500,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $475,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $450,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $400,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $400,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC: $400,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $378,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $375,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMEET INTERNATIONAL INC: $350,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetDOROT INC: $325,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $320,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $305,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $300,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC: $300,000 over 3y, 1.9% 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 MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
  • Who funds ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds The Frisch School ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN ↗
  • Who funds Golda Och Academy ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
  • Who funds ZAMIR CHORAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds Nefesh B'Nefesh Jewish Souls United Inc ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds LEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds SHEFA SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
  • Who funds MILTON GOTTESMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds TORAH ACADEMY OF BERGEN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundFjcUnited Jewish Appeal-…The New York Communit…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Hyde and Watson F…Combined Jewish Phila…Jewish Community Foun…Covenant FoundationThe Shimon Ben Joseph…The Vermont Community…Jewish Community Fede…
Jewish Communal FundNY43.9× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Covenant Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma

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 Gottesman Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gottesman Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Institute for Sustainable Communities: 100% of income from government
  • Capstone Community Action Inc: 84% of income from government
  • Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Champlain Housing Trust: 15% of income from government
  • Intervale Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation: 8% of income from government
  • Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
  • St John's College: 2% of income from government
  • Yeshiva High School for Girls Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
  • The University of Vermont Medical Center: 1% of income from government
  • Golda Och Academy: 0% of income from government
  • The Frisch School: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Torah Academy of Bergen County: 0% of income from government
  • Champlain College Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Stern Center for Language and Learning: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Gottesman Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Gottesman Fund 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 195 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home