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The Joelson 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.

$487k
Granted FY2024still arriving
74
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.6MEducation$527kHealth$500kInternational$196kHuman Services$177kReligion$124kEnvironment$103kPhilanthropy$96kOther$0
02FY2024 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 74 grants below total $405,900, the rows itemized in this filing. The $486,735 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $80,835 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k63 grants · $138k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $168k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$2,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIAS$100,000
New York City Ballet$30,000
Children's Health Alliance for Israel$25,000
Facing History and Ourselves$15,000
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fund$15,000
Sandy Hook Promise Foundation$15,000
PEF Israel Endowment Funds$15,000
American Friends of Magen David Adom$15,000
DOROT$15,000
Lehigh University$12,500
JGive - Friends of Keren Asor$10,000
Syracuse University$9,000
Connecticut College$7,000
Girls Inc Westchester$5,000
Innocence Project New Orleans$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BronxWorks: $1k → 28%YMCA of the Triangle Area: $1k → 8%The Seeing Eye Inc: $1k → 4%Pine Street Inn Inc: $6k → 16%BronxWorks: $1k → 28%Filling in the Blanks: $2k → 9%YMCA of the Triangle Area: $1k → 8%Companions For Heroes: $500 → 14%The Seeing Eye Inc: $1k → 4%The Seeing Eye Inc: $1k → 4%Pine Street Inn Inc: $3k → 16%NARAL Pro-Choice American: $2k → 14%NARAL Pro-Choice American: $2k → 14%American Red Cross: $1k → 14%Guiding Eyes for the Blind: $1k → 9%Good Foundation: $6k → 17%United Neighborhood Houses: $2k → 17%Fund for the Aged Inc: $2k → 17%Dorot Inc: $4k → 17%Community Service Society: $2k → 17%Dorot Inc: $3k → 17%Hartley House: $1k → 17%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

ME
WA
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
GA
FL
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 132 repeat orgs$814k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

132 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 101 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

132
196

Total granted

$2.9M
$699k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+25%

Still filing today

75%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthCrime & 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

  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $292k · revenue +21%
  • MT
    MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $275k · revenue +35%
  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $135k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • HI
    Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • MT
    Manhattan Theatre Club
    one grant, 2023 · $53k
  • NY
    New York City Ballet, Inc.
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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.

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Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
6
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
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
9
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
10
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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12
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lucky Dog Refuge 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

188 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. 188 of the 363 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
184/188
Grantees still filing
135/188
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Nantucket Cottage Hospital: $257,500 · OtherNantucket Cottage HospitalHebrew Immigrant Aid Society: $100,000 · OtherHebrew Immigrant Aid SocietyNANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC: $77,500 · Other+129 more: $1,243,809 · Other+129 moreNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $292,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INCMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $275,000 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INCNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $135,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY CENTER INCMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $132,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORKCENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY: $90,600 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVIT…LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $58,500 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $40,500 · Arts & Culture+18 more: $173,027 · Arts & Culture+18 moreLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $87,500 · EducationLEHIGH UNIV…ECHOING GREEN INC: $75,000 · EducationECHOING GRE…CONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $38,300 · EducationCONNECTICUT…THE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $28,000 · EducationTHE BREARLE…SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UN…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $24,000 · EducationPresident a…Horace Mann School: $16,500 · EducationTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $12,500 · Education+11 more: $59,425 · Education+11 moreHIAS INC: $100,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $33,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $13,500 · InternationalRWANDA EDUCATION ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $12,500 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $6,500 · International+2 more: $6,625 · InternationalUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $51,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $29,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $16,500 · PhilanthropyTHE PAUL ROBERT CAREY FOUNDATION: $4,000 · PhilanthropyDOROT INC: $25,500 · Human ServicesGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesBRONXWORKS INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $7,500 · Human ServicesREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $4,000 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $3,200 · Human Services+2 more: $4,250 · Human ServicesBROWN UNIVERSITY: $31,000 · Community ImprovementREGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC: $27,500 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $8,822 · Community Improvement
Other$1,678,809Arts & Culture$1,197,127Education$366,225International$172,625Philanthropy$100,500Human Services$73,950Community Improvement$67,322

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $292,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $275,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $135,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $132,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHIAS INC: $100,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY: $90,600 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $87,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC: $77,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $58,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $51,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $40,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $38,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $33,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $31,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $29,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $28,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $27,499 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDOROT INC: $25,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $24,417 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $20,028 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC: $18,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $18,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS UNION FOUNDATION INC OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $16,750 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHorace Mann School: $16,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWest Harlem Environmental Action Inc: $15,650 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $14,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $13,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $13,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRWANDA EDUCATION ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $12,500 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $10,000 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds HIAS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds ECHOING GREEN INC ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BREARLEY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
  • Who funds DOROT INC ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
  • Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗

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 FundThe Hyde and Watson F…The New York Communit…Charina Foundation In…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Lily Auchincloss Foun…Pinkerton FoundationThe Ford FoundationCommunity Foundation …Altman FoundationThe Rudin Foundation …Ira M Resnick Foundat…
Jewish Communal FundNY32× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Altman Foundation · The Rudin Foundation Inc · Ira M Resnick Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Joelson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joelson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Transitions Centers Inc: 82% of income from government
  • Marine Biological Laboratory: 20% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Grub Street Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Housing Partnership Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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

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How do I get to The Joelson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Joelson 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 363 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $645k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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