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The Herbert and Lorraine Podell Foundation U/A/Dtd 12/12/94 at a glance

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The Herbert and Lorraine Podell Foundation U/A/Dtd 12/12/94

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.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$105kInternational$103kPhilanthropy$19kArts & Culture$10kEducation$5kHealth$4kHuman Services$340Food & Nutrition$200Other$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$20k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AFMDA$25,000
EAST HAMPTON LIBRARY$3,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$1,800
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 (FY19–20, $540) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%High Ridge Charitable Foundation Inc: $300 → 11%CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION of Palm Beach County: $240 → 11%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.
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$125k · 7 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
16

Total granted

$125k
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+30%

Still filing today

71%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • EH
    EAST HAMPTON LIBRARY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $9k · revenue +3%
  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +43%
  • PF
    PLAY FOR PINK INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $500 · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIEND OF MAGEM DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2021 · $105k
  • TB
    THE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +85%
  • F
    FIDA
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
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
Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc

To support cancer research in israel, for the benefit of israel and all mankind.

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2
Children's Cancer Family Foundation of Ne Wi Inc

Raise money to support families and children suffering from childhood cancer.

Health
3
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
4
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc

The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc. is to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world's most promising research.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
6
Brca Foundation

The primary mission is to accelerate research and foster collaboration to prevent and cure brca cancers. we invest in the most promising work of top scientific investigators while creating a forum for successful partnerships across…

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7
Chance for Life

Chance for life's mission is to raise awareness and funds for critical research and clinical trials for pediatric cancer in the united states of america.

Health
8
Animal Cancer Foundation

Animal cancer foundation is dedicated to finding new treatments and eventual cures for cancer by funding research in and increasing public awareness of comparative oncology, the study of naturally occurring, similar cancers in people and…

Health
9
Prostate Cancer Foundation

The prostate cancer foundation (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and…

Philanthropy
10
Alcides E Rosaura Diniz Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to raise funds and foster basic and translational research to identify genetic causes of specific cancers, understand how genes contribute to the disease, and use that understanding to help develop better…

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11
Fcancer

FCANCER IS dedicated to advancing health equity through early detection and prevention programs, and by providing resources to navigate, manage, and cope with cancer.

Health
12
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is High Ridge Charitable 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 24 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)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIEND OF MAGEM DAVID ADOM: $105,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIEND OF MAGEM DAVID ADOMVarious organized charities: $10,875 · OtherVarious organized charitiesEAST HAMPTON LIBRARY: $9,162 · OtherEAST HAMPTON LIBRARY+11 more: $6,020 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $101,400 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM+1 more: $600 · InternationalJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $8,100 · PhilanthropyTHE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $150 · EducationCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $150 · HealthINSIGHT THROUGH EDUCATION INC: $838 · Arts & CultureHIGH RIDGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $300 · Human ServicesBOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION FKA BOCA WEST COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $240 · Human Services
Other$131,057International$102,000Philanthropy$8,100Education$5,150Health$3,150Arts & Culture$838Human Services$540

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $101,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON LIBRARY: $9,162 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $8,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSIGHT THROUGH EDUCATION INC: $838 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION FKA BOCA WEST COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $240 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON FOOD PANTRY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INC: $150 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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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 Herbert and Lorraine Podell Foundation U/A/Dtd 12/12/94 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Herbert and Lorraine Podell Foundation U/A/Dtd 12/12/94. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get 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 · 0–5%
    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.

    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 24 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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