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The Guenter Borg 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.

$57k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
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62% of The Guenter Borg Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Greater Philadelphia, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’19
1
’20
0
’21
1
’22
2
’23
2
’24
3
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 5
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$931k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations The Guenter Borg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
InternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$22k50%
FY20243$18k67%
FY20234$70k50%
FY20223$44k0%
FY20213$68k0%
FY20204$128k50%
FY20195$53kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

International$153kReligion$129kPhilanthropy$101kCivil Rights$93kFood & Nutrition$21kArts & Culture$5kHuman Services$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($329k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Guenter Borg Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Friends of Meir Panim: $21,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCommittee for the Rescue of Israel Babies DBA Efrat: $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJewish Agency for Israel - North American Council: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Ofanim Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Society for Yad Vashem Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Ir David Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKaiserman Jewish Community Center: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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 Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 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.

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How do I get to The Guenter Borg Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Guenter Borg 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.

About The Guenter Borg Foundation

How much does The Guenter Borg Foundation give?
The Guenter Borg Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $56,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The Guenter Borg Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (30%), Religion (26%), Philanthropy (20%).
Who are The Guenter Borg Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: American Friends of Meir Panim ($21k), Committee for the Rescue of Israel Babies DBA Efrat ($18k), Jewish Agency for Israel - North American Council ($10k).
Does The Guenter Borg Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Guenter Borg Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Guenter Borg Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Guenter Borg Foundation based?
The Guenter Borg Foundation is based in PA.

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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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