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The Nussdorf Family Foundation Inc

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.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$4.7MArts & Culture$2.0MPhilanthropy$1.9MHealth$1.8MReligion$1.1MHuman Services$903kFood & Nutrition$200kScience & Tech$200kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $466k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$9.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOMENS INDEPENDENCE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC$250,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$208,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$200,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$200,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$200,000
EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC$200,000
ADAS ISREAL HEBREW CONGREGATION$195,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$160,000
WETA$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC$100,000
STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY-DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT$100,000
BUFFALO SEMINARY$100,000
MEDSTAR HEALTH INC$100,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$100,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$100,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $25k → 10%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $25k → 10%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $25k → 10%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 22%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $10k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $10k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $10k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $10k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $10k → 8%TRARON CENTER: $5k → 14%TRARON CENTER: $5k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON INC: $10k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON INC: $5k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON INC: $5k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON INC: $5k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON INC: $5k → 14%CAPITAL CLUBHOUSE: $3k → 14%CAPITAL CLUBHOUSE: $3k → 14%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

NY
MA
OR
WY
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.5M · 57 repeat orgs$668k to everyone else

57 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
11

Total granted

$9.5M
$223k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+9%

Still filing today

89%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $445k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $900k · revenue +42%
  • EJ
    EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $708k · revenue +107%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -17%
  • SM
    SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $60k · revenue +9%
  • DP
    DC PREP SUPPORT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -100%
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.

1
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
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
3
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
4
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
5
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.

—
6
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
7
The Seed Public Charter School of Washington Dc

The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…

Education
8
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
9
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
10
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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11
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
12
Manhattanville University

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Womens Independence Scholarship Program 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

70 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. 70 of the 77 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
37/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,258,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF P…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $900,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYGEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL: $500,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOLBUFFALO SEMINARY: $325,000 · EducationBUFFALO SEMINARYWomens Independence Scholarship Program Inc: $250,000 · EducationWomens Independence Scholarship…DC PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $203,625 · EducationDC PREPARATORY ACADEMY+9 more: $302,500 · Education+9 moreUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $900,116 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLANDEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $708,000 · OtherEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY …ADAS ISRAEL HEBREW CONGREGATION: $375,000 · OtherADAS ISRAEL HEBREW CONGREGA…STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY-DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $200,000 · OtherSTEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNO…TEMPLE MICAH WASHINGTON DC: $200,000 · OtherTEMPLE MICAH WASHINGTON DCMARTHA'S TABLE: $120,000 · Other+26 more: $772,500 · Other+26 moreThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $600,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States…GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $530,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTO…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $400,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTI…Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $250,000 · Arts & CultureLillian and Alber…THE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $70,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $95,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $1,870,024 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDER…GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $75,000 · PhilanthropyMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $525,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $480,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOS…THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL: $393,000 · HealthTHE JOHNS HOPK…MEDSTAR HEALTH INC: $240,000 · HealthMEDSTAR HEALTH…SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Health+3 more: $60,000 · HealthHONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC: $210,000 · ReligionSIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC: $200,000 · ReligionONETABLE INC: $45,000 · ReligionJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $75,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $50,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $40,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE TRARON CENTER: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human Services
Education$3,739,125Other$3,275,616Arts & Culture$2,025,000Philanthropy$1,945,024Health$1,758,000Religion$455,000Human Services$210,000

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 budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $1,870,024 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,258,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $900,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $708,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $600,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $530,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $525,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL: $500,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $480,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL: $393,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO SEMINARY: $325,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $250,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetWomens Independence Scholarship Program Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetMEDSTAR HEALTH INC: $240,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC: $210,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetDC PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $203,625 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC: $200,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetONETABLE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHANGE SUMMER INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSOME INC: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDC PREP SUPPORT CORPORATION: $30,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPension Rights Center: $30,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetThe Studio Theatre Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $20,000 over 4y, 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.

The Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…Michael and Deborah R…Duber Family Foundati…Galena-Yorktown Found…The Morningstar Phila…Clark Charitable Foun…The Jewish Federation…Vanguard Charitable E…England Family Founda…The Robert P and Arle…Monumental Sports & E…
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC29.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Michael and Deborah Ratner Salzberg Family Foundation · Duber Family Foundation · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · England Family Foundation · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · Monumental Sports & Entertainment 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 Nussdorf Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nussdorf Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Medstar Health Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
  • The Johns Hopkins Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Nussdorf Family Foundation Inc 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 77 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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