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The Hair Foundation at a glance

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The Hair Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$40k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Religion$1.2MInternational$326kArts & Culture$194kPhilanthropy$131kHealth$18kEducation$10kCrime & Legal$2kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $36k
$36,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROTHERS FOR LIFE$36,000
CHABAD LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC$3,600
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION: $50k → 22%GOOGLE FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%CHABAD LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC: $4k → 6%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $4k → 17%CHABAD LUBAVITCH CENTER: $2k → 20%AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $38k → 14%CDC FOUNDATION: $6k → 13%BROTHERS FOR LIFE: $54k → 9%RETHINK ISRAEL: $7k → 5%RUMSON PBA: $2k → 6%JEWISH FEDERATION IN THE HEART OF NJ: $10k → 8%EMMANUEL CANCER FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%WISSAHICKON FOUNDATION: $10k → 22%FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $56k → 17%AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $38k → 14%BROTHERS FOR LIFE: $36k → 9%RETHINK ISRAEL: $7k → 5%THE RUMSON BOAT RACE: $250 → 6%JEWISH FEDERATION IN THE HEART OF NJ: $118 → 8%EMMANUEL CANCER FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $48k → 17%AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $38k → 14%BROTHERS FOR LIFE: $27k → 9%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CENTRAL JERSEY: $360 → 6%EMMANUEL CANCER FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $4k → 17%AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $38k → 14%BROTHERS FOR LIFE: $27k → 9%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CENTRAL JERSEY: $200 → 6%THE HADASSAH FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%THE ISRAEL PROJECT: $14k → 14%CHABAD OF THE SHORE: $651k → 6%MET COUNCIL: $2k → 17%THE ISRAEL PROJECT: $7k → 14%CHABAD OF THE SHORE: $130k → 6%P E F ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $25k → 17%CHABAD OF THE SHORE: $126k → 6%CHABAD OF THE SHORE: $108k → 6%HAND IN HAND: $50k → 6%HAND IN HAND: $36k → 6%HAND IN HAND: $20k → 6%HAND IN HAND: $15k → 6%CHABAD OF THE SHORE: $5k → 6%CHABAD OF THE SHORE: $4k → 6%CHABAD OF THE SHORE: $2k → 6%CHABAD OF THE SHORE: $2k → 6%CHABAD OF THE SHORE: $1k → 6%CHABAD OF THE SHORE: $360 → 6%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
NY
PA
NJ
CA
UT
DC
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 18% of The Hair Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Hair Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 18% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$1.7M · 10 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2021, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$1.7M
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+16%

Still filing today

40%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyInternationalHealthEducationOther
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

  • BF
    Brothers for Life
    4× · 2017–2021 · $144k · revenue ×13
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    3× · 2017–2019 · $108k · revenue +53%
  • TE
    THE EMMANUEL CANCER FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +136%

Funded once

  • PH
    PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -79%
  • WF
    WISSAHICKON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +16%
  • NF
    NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -35%
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
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Sherit Isroel
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3
University of Judaism Foundation
—
4
The Jerusalem Connection
—
5
Physicians for Palestine
Health
6
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
—
7
Jewish Life Foundation
—
8
Better Future for Israel

To strengthen israel's future in these areas: 1)providing new immigrants with assistance in a few key areas: representing them as they navigate government ministries and assisting them with their challenges as new immigrants to israel.…

Philanthropy
9
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
10
Israel Kuzminsky Memorial Foundation
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11
Friends of Institute for Zionist

The organization seeks to reinforce the foundations of israel as a jewish and democratic state. it acts to promote programs to educate the israeli public on the importance of both values and to demonstrate how each contributes to and…

International
12
The Chasdei Shimon Foundation
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hadassah Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rumson Boat Race Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 25 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHABAD OF THE SHORE: $1,028,956 · OtherCHABAD OF THE SHORECHABAD LUBAVITCH OF PARK CITY: $123,000 · OtherCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF PARK CITY+10 more: $58,267 · OtherAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL …FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $107,600 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE I…+1 more: $3,600 · InternationalBrothers for Life: $143,800 · Arts & CultureBrothers for…PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA…+1 more: $5,580 · Arts & CultureHAND IN HAND A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT: $120,800 · PhilanthropyHAND IN HA…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL…THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF MIDDLESEX & MONMOUTH COUNTIES A NJ NONPROFIT CORP: $10,118 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH…WISSAHICKON FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyWISSAHICKO…+1 more: $1,800 · PhilanthropyTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,854 · HealthRUMSON BOAT RACE INC: $250 · Education
Other$1,210,223International$261,200Arts & Culture$199,380Philanthropy$167,718Health$1,854Education$250

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 ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBrothers for Life: $143,800 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetHAND IN HAND A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT: $120,800 over 4y, 34% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $107,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ISRAEL PROJECT: $21,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EMMANUEL CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $10,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF MIDDLESEX & MONMOUTH COUNTIES A NJ NONPROFIT CORP: $10,118 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $5,580 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,854 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMet Council Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE HADASSAH FOUNDATION INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY11.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Hair Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hair Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get 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
    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 Hair Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Hair 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 25 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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