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The Harriet Greenfield Foundationinc

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$13k
Granted FY2019
17
Grants FY2019
10
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

International$11kHuman Services$4kHealth$3kPhilanthropy$2kFood & Nutrition$1kArts & Culture$1kEducation$1kEnvironment$1k
02FY2019 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
10
States reached
$127k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IHUGG FOUNDATION$1,500
sundry organized charities$1,250
Achievement Masters Inc$1,000
The Adam Gaynes Foundation Inc$1,000
group for the east end$1,000
american jewish world service$1,000
national center for learning disabilities$1,000
society for prevention of teen suicide$500
Kapahulu Center$500
susan gkomen breast cancer$500
st jude children's research hospital$500
doctors without borders$500
maya's rainbow foundation$500
camp care kids$500
lalmba association$500
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 (FY19–19, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Kapahulu Center: $500 → 9%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

NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
HI
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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9k · 3 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +151% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$9k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+151%
+18%

Still filing today

33%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
InternationalHealthPublic Safety & DisasterEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • IF
    IHUGG FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $7k
  • FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $750 · revenue +151%
  • CM
    city meals on wheels
    2× · 2018–2019 · $500

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2018 · $600 · revenue -18%
  • TP
    THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +154%
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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
5
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
6
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
7
Access to Advanced Health Institute

Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.

Health
8
The Foundation for Aids Research

Amfar is dedicated to ending the global aids epidemic through innovative research. (see schedule o)

Health
9
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
10
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
11
International Bridges to Justice

In recognition of the fundamental principles of the universal declaration of human rights, international bridges to justice (ibj) is dedicated to protecting the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries. specifically,…

Crime & Legal
12
Helen Keller International

Guided by her remarkable legacy of its co-founder, helen keller, helen keller intl partners with communities that are striving to overcome longstanding cycles of poverty. by delivering the essential building blocks of good health, sound…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Learning Disabilities Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mayas Rainbow Foundation 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

13 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. 13 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IHUGG FOUNDATION: $7,300 · OtherIHUGG FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientsundry organized charities: $1,250 · Othersundry organized charitiesNATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC: $1,000 · OtherNATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INCThe Adam Gaynes Foundation Inc: $1,000 · OtherThe Adam Gaynes Foundation Inc+7 more: $3,500 · Other+7 moreAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $2,500 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH…LALMBA ASSOCIATION: $500 · InternationalLALMBA ASSOCIAT…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS F…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $600 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 · HealthACHIEVEMENT MASTERS INC: $1,000 · EducationGROUP FOR THE EAST END INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $750 · Community ImprovementMayas Rainbow Foundation Inc: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$17,050International$3,500Health$1,100Education$1,000Environment$1,000Community Improvement$750Arts & Culture$500

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 JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACHIEVEMENT MASTERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGROUP FOR THE EAST END INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLALMBA ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAPAHULU CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $500 over 1y, 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

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    How do I get to The Harriet Greenfield Foundationinc?

    Find your warmest path to The Harriet Greenfield Foundationinc 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 21 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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