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The Joshua Mailman 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.

$804k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$306k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$889kEnvironment$854kCommunity Improvement$414kInternational$370kReligion$293kArts & Culture$265kPublic Benefit$210kCivil Rights$203kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $283k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $306k
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE THRESHOLD FOUNDATION$306,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$150,000
EMERGING PUBLIC LEADERS$50,000
PROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE$25,000
ABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER$25,000
REMAKE$25,000
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC$20,000
GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND INC$20,000
FRIENDS SEMINARY$20,000
PURE EARTH$20,000
THE WILLIAM JAMES FOUNDATION$15,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH$15,000
WHITE MEN FOR RACIAL JUSTICE INC$15,000
PROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE$12,500
INSTITUTE FOR MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING (IMEU)$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WIND BENEATH MY WINGS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%WHITE MEN FOR RACIAL JUSTICE INC: $15k → 18%GOLDEN STATE OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%RUDOLF STEINER FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 14%THINK OF US: $5k → 14%REMAKE: $25k → 10%REMAKE: $20k → 10%REMAKE: $20k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 30 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
50

Total granted

$2.7M
$998k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+16%

Still filing today

80%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TF
    THRESHOLD FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $620k · revenue +5%
  • EG
    ECHOING GREEN INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $322k · revenue +23%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2021–2024 · $202k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • CF
    Center for Common Ground
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -72%
  • EL
    EWAM LTD
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • TO
    The Oikos Institute For Social Impactgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +622%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
3
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
4
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…

Philanthropy
5
Rules Foundation

/The Rules is a global network of activists, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers and others dedicated to changing the rules that create inequality, climate change, and poverty around the world.

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6
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
7
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
8
Nuru International

Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…

International
9
International Rivers Network

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Environment
10
Guernica Centre for InternationalJustice

The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…

International
11
Shift Project Ltd

At Shift, we have one purpose: to transform how business gets done in order to ensure respect for peoples lives and dignity. We believe that the best way to advance our mission is by working directly with Businesses to help shape their…

International
12
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People Power Initiatives Inc and the most unlike its peers is Waterfall Unity Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyChristian Missionary Organi…Lgbtq+ Community SupportJewish Community Organizati…Domestic Violence Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr14%15%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr19%37%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%3%<5yr14%16%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/77
the rest of the field
10%
11,857/120,683

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 71 of the 95 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/71
Grantees still filing
46/71
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THRESHOLD FOUNDATION — $619,950 · InternationalTHRESHOLD FOUNDATIONBLACKSMITH INSTITUTE INC — $70,000 · InternationalBLACKSMITH INSTITUTE INCGlobal Echo Litigation Center Inc — $70,000 · InternationalGlobal Echo Litigation Center…FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $57,500 · InternationalEMERGING PUBLIC LEADERS INC — $50,000 · InternationalCLOONEY FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE — $47,435 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND — $40,000 · InternationalPROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE — $37,500 · International+7 more — $130,200 · International+7 moreIndividual grant recipient — $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION — $100,000 · OtherURBAN AFFAIRS COALITIONEWAM LTD — $100,000 · OtherEWAM LTDFRIENDS SEMINARY — $95,000 · OtherFRIENDS SEMINARYSEE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS — $68,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH — $65,000 · OtherRemake — $65,000 · OtherSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $50,000 · OtherCONFLUENCE PHILANTHROPY INC — $64,000 · OtherRepairers of the Breach — $50,000 · Other+43 more — $547,458 · Other+43 moreECHOING GREEN INC — $322,000 · EducationECHOING GREEN INCTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $300,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBI…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $202,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY+6 more — $73,500 · Education+6 moreTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER — $100,000 · Arts & CultureThe Oikos Institute For Social Impact — $50,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTER — $27,000 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN CEREMONIES INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIAL VENTURE NETWORK — $15,000 · Arts & CultureMAYSLES INSTITUTE INC — $12,500 · Arts & CultureReal News Project Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureINVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,400 · Arts & CultureLIVING LANDS TRUST — $150,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $25,000 · Food & NutritionThe Oakland Institute — $15,000 · Food & NutritionABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER — $80,000 · Crime & LegalV-Day — $71,000 · Crime & LegalCALIFORNIA WOMEN'S LAW CENTER — $10,000 · Crime & LegalCenter for Common Ground — $150,000 · Public Benefit
International$1,122,585Other$1,454,458Education$897,500Arts & Culture$280,900Food & Nutrition$190,000Crime & Legal$161,000Public Benefit$150,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHRESHOLD FOUNDATION — $619,950 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC — $322,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $202,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING LANDS TRUST — $150,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCenter for Common Ground — $150,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER — $80,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetV-Day — $71,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetBLACKSMITH INSTITUTE INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGlobal Echo Litigation Center Inc — $70,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetRemake — $65,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCONFLUENCE PHILANTHROPY INC — $64,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $57,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Oikos Institute For Social Impact — $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRepairers of the Breach — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCLOONEY FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE — $47,435 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE — $37,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING — $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER — $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRAZIL FOUNDATION — $25,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAJ MUSTE FOUNDATION FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetGLOBAL PROJECT AGAINST HATE AND EXTREMISM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCheck My Ads Institute — $24,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN CEREMONIES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetPEOPLE POWER INITIATIVES INC — $18,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLand is Life Inc — $15,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWhite Men for Racial Justice Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH COALITION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Oakland Institute — $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE NETWORK — $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGEORGIE BADIEL FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMAYSLES INSTITUTE INC — $12,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Sustainable Business Council — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetRUDOLF STEINER FELLOWSHIP FDN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWIND BENEATH MY WINGS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetDAVIS-PUTTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

ImpactassetsincThe Ford FoundationRsf Social Finance IncSilicon Valley Commun…Foundation to Promote…The William H Donner …Wellspring Philanthro…Amalgamated Charitabl…Ag FoundationTides FoundationBluestein Family Foun…The Mailman Foundatio…
ImpactassetsincMD26.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · The Ford Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The William H Donner Foundation Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Ag Foundation · Tides Foundation · Bluestein Family Foundation Inc · The Mailman Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Joshua Mailman Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to The Joshua Mailman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Joshua Mailman 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 95 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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