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The Louisa Kreisberg Family Foundation at a glance

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The Louisa Kreisberg Family Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$115k
Granted FY2017
22
Grants FY2017
9
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k21 grants · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$500
Median grant
9
States reached
$71k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TELEOSIS FOUNDATION$100,000
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$2,500
SURVIVAL CENTERS INC$2,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,800
JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$1,200
UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE$1,000
NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC$1,000
PRESIDENT & TRUSTEES OF COLBY COLLEGE$1,000
URBAN ADAMAH$900
WORKING IN THE SCHOOLS$500
SARAHS CIRCLE$500
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY The Wesleyan Fund$500
ACADEMY AT CHARLEMONT$500
LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND INC$250
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER$250
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE: $50 → 8%ACADEMY AT CHARLEMONT: $500 → 14%URBAN ADAMAH: $900 → 10%NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $250 → 14%NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $1k → 13%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $250 → 17%JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $250 → 14%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 7%SARAHS CIRCLE: $500 → 14%UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $1k → 9%PRESIDENT & TRUSTEES OF COLBY COLLEGE: $1k → 12%HARVARD COLLEGE: $250 → 8%TELEOSIS FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $250 → 17%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY The Wesleyan Fund: $500 → 7%WORKING IN THE SCHOOLS: $500 → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $250 → 17%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $250 → 17%LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND INC: $250 → 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

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IL
MI
NY
MA
CT
CA
VA
DC
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 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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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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President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
3
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
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
Wellesley College

To provide an excellent liberal arts education for women who will make a difference in the world.

Education
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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
12
Randolph College Inc

See detailed description of organization's primary mission provided on schedule o

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center; the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 22 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TELEOSIS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationTELEOSIS FOUNDATION+6 more: $4,800 · EducationTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,800 · OtherNORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 · OtherWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY The Wesleyan Fund: $500 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $250 · OtherHARVARD COLLEGE: $250 · OtherLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $250 · OtherNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $250 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $250 · OtherSURVIVAL CENTERS INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1,200 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art: $250 · Arts & CultureUrban Adamah: $900 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $250 · EnvironmentUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $1,000 · PhilanthropySARAH'S CIRCLE: $500 · Housing & Shelter
Education$104,800Other$4,550Human Services$2,000Arts & Culture$1,450Environment$1,150Philanthropy$1,000Housing & Shelter$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTELEOSIS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSURVIVAL CENTERS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Adamah: $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACADEMY AT CHARLEMONT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARAH'S CIRCLE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $50 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.

Jewish Community Fede…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Louisa Kreisberg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Louisa Kreisberg Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Survival Centers Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Louisa Kreisberg Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Louisa Kreisberg Family 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 22 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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