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The James B Mintzer Foundation

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.

$238k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
16%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 19
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
13
Total assets, FY2024
$3.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations The James B Mintzer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
InternationalHealthCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2024still arriving24$238k25%
FY202319$197k16%
FY202219$175k37%
FY202117$170kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$163kYouth Development$120kCivil Rights$98kHealth$86kArts & Culture$80kFood & Nutrition$60kRecreation & Sports$55kHuman Services$40kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 27 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($110k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The James B Mintzer Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Immigration Council: $95,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSoccer Without Borders: $55,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Point Community Development Corporation: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetArt Start Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Jed Foundation: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank for New York City: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMarks Angel Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 77% of budgetFree Arts for Abused Children of New York City Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTada Theatre and Dance Alliance Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetChildren of Promise NYC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEverytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStandUp for Kids: $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Hetrick-Martin Institute Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Strides Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFreedom Reads Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEndometriosis Foundation of America Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe College and Community Fellowship Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Crisis Group: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln Hall: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRazom Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Organization for Women Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrevor Project Inc: $2,500 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 27.

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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.

The Ford FoundationNY18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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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Find your warmest path to The James B Mintzer 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 James B Mintzer Foundation

How much does The James B Mintzer Foundation give?
The James B Mintzer Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $238,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 19 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does The James B Mintzer Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (21%), Youth Development (15%), Civil Rights (13%).
Who are The James B Mintzer Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: American Immigration Council ($95k), Soccer Without Borders ($55k), The Point Community Development Corporation ($40k).
Does The James B Mintzer Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The James B Mintzer 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 James B Mintzer Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, Pinkerton Foundation, The New York Community Trust.
Where is The James B Mintzer Foundation based?
The James B Mintzer Foundation is based in NY.

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 33 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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