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The Kronhill Pletka 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.

$485k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$1.7MReligion$1.0MInternational$378kPhilanthropy$151kEducation$43kSocial Science$750
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $193k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $268k
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$130,000
YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH$87,516
JEWISH STORY PARTNERS$50,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF POLIN MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS$40,000
FRIENDS OF THE FORUM$35,000
MYRIAD USA$30,000
FORWARD ASSOCIATION$30,000
CENTROPA - CENTRAL EUROPE CENTER FOR RESEARCH & DOCUMENTATION$27,500
JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$20,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA$10,000
JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK$9,519
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$7,500
THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY$5,000
HAND IN HAND$2,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HANDS HOUSE: $15k → 8%FRIENDS OF THE KRAKOW JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL SOCIETY INC: $15k → 22%FRIENDS OF THE FORUM: $50k → 9%YIVO: $153k → 17%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $25k → 14%CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $30k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE FORUM: $30k → 14%CENTROPA - CENTRAL EUROPE CENTER FOR RESEARCH & DOCUMENTATION: $35k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $30k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE FORUM: $35k → 9%YIVO: $146k → 17%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $21k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE FORUM: $25k → 14%CENTROPA - CENTRAL EUROPE CENTER FOR RESEARCH & DOCUMENTATION: $33k → 8%FRIENDS OF THE FORUM: $25k → 9%YIVO: $134k → 17%CENTROPA - CENTRAL EUROPE CENTER FOR RESEARCH & DOCUMENTATION: $28k → 8%FRIENDS OF THE FORUM: $25k → 9%YIVO: $114k → 17%KATADIN FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE FORUM: $20k → 9%YIVO: $106k → 17%JEWISH STORY PARTNERS: $100k → 14%YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH: $88k → 17%JEWISH STORY PARTNERS: $50k → 14%JEWISH STORY PARTNERS: $50k → 14%FORWARD ASSOCIATION: $30k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF POLIN MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS: $85k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF POLIN MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS: $47k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF POLIN MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS: $40k → 17%JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $25k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF POLIN MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS: $40k → 17%JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $20k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF POLIN MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS: $23k → 17%KING BAUDOUIN FOUNDATION: $35k → 17%KING BAUDOUIN FOUNDATION: $30k → 17%KING BAUDOUIN FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%FJC FOUNDATION OF PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS: $71k → 17%JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $30k → 17%AMERICAN-ISRAEL FOUNDATION (AICF): $22k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH JDC: $145k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH JDC: $130k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH JDC: $100k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH JDC: $95k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH JDC: $85k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH JDC: $85k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH JDC: $85k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH JDC: $85k → 17%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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CA
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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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 19 repeat orgs$231k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
17

Total granted

$2.8M
$221k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-4%

Still filing today

58%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalReligionPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF POLIN MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $249k · revenue +34%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE FORUM
    7× · 2017–2024 · $210k · revenue +139%
  • YI
    YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $96k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • KF
    KATADIN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • AF
    AMERICAN-ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $22k

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
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
2
University of Judaism Foundation
3
The Foundation for the Preservation of the History of the Jewish People in
Arts & Culture
4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
6
American Friends of Kohelet Policy Forum

The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.

7
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
8
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

9
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
10
Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fundinc

Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art

Arts & Culture
11
The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion
12
Jewish Philosophy Fund Inc
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Forward Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Topa Institute Pka Yiddishkayt. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr13%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%17%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr18%35%20–35yr12%4%35–55yr13%19%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
15%
14,986/101,486

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

22 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 42 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $810,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYIVO — $654,293 · OtherYIVOCENTROPA - CENTRAL EUROPE CENTER FOR RESEARCH & DOCUMENTATION — $131,500 · OtherCENTROPA - CENTRAL EUROPE CENTER FOR RESEARCH & DOCUMENTATIONKATADIN FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Other+16 more — $288,150 · Other+16 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF POLIN MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS INC — $249,350 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF PO…JEWISH STORY PARTNERS — $200,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH STORY PARTNERSThe Forward Association Inc — $65,000 · Arts & CultureThe Forward Associatio…CONGRESS FOR JEWISH CULTURE INC — $52,133 · Arts & CultureCONGRESS FOR JEWISH CU…CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $32,500 · Arts & CultureTOPA INSTITUTE PKA YIDDISHKAYT — $26,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $30,156 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE FORUM — $210,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF …MYRIAD USA INC — $115,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA …+3 more — $6,289 · InternationalYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC — $95,808 · ReligionFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC — $10,000 · ReligionJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $79,519 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyFJC — $70,500 · Crime & LegalTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $37,500 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · Education
Other$1,983,943Arts & Culture$655,139International$331,289Religion$105,808Philanthropy$80,519Crime & Legal$70,500Education$38,500

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 budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF POLIN MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS INC — $249,350 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FORUM — $210,000 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetJEWISH STORY PARTNERS — $200,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC — $115,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC — $95,808 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $79,519 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFJC — $70,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Forward Association Inc — $65,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCONGRESS FOR JEWISH CULTURE INC — $52,133 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $37,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $32,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTOPA INSTITUTE PKA YIDDISHKAYT — $26,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC — $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Traditional Music and Dance Inc — $11,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA — $3,539 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILMINC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIPS AT AUSCHWITZ FOR THE STUDY OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS INC — $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC — $156 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF POLIN MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FORUM
  • Who funds JEWISH STORY PARTNERS
  • Who funds MYRIAD USA INC
  • Who funds YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC
  • Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK
  • Who funds FJC
  • Who funds The Forward Association Inc
  • Who funds CONGRESS FOR JEWISH CULTURE INC
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC
  • Who funds TOPA INSTITUTE PKA YIDDISHKAYT
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC
  • Who funds Center for Traditional Music and Dance Inc
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC
  • Who funds HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA
  • Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILMINC
  • Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIPS AT AUSCHWITZ FOR THE STUDY OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS INC

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY19.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Kronhill Pletka 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • National Center for Jewish Filminc4% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 Kronhill Pletka Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Kronhill Pletka 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 42 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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