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The Paula and Andrew Liveris Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Paula and Andrew Liveris 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.

$161k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$10MCommunity Improvement$250kPhilanthropy$138kReligion$135kInternational$110kHuman Services$75kArts & Culture$70kScience & Tech$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
B TEAM HEADQUARTERS INC$75,000
GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH OF THE HAMPTONS$35,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
AMERICAN AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION INC$15,000
MANHATTAN UNIVERSITY$10,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD$1,000
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 (FY18–22, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOPELAND: $25k → 17%HOPELAND: $25k → 17%HOPELAND: $25k → 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

MI
NY
NJ
CT
CA
UT
TN
DC
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 11 repeat orgs$204k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
10

Total granted

$11M
$188k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
+9%

Still filing today

73%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HI
    HELLENIC INITIATIVE INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $100k · revenue +13%
  • H
    HOPELAND
    4× · 2018–2023 · $75k · revenue +40%
  • RF
    RALLY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • PG
    PETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +20%
  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +0%
  • SA
    SUCCESS ACADEMY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
3
Associated Universities Inc

Associated universities inc (aui) collaborates with the scientific community and research sponsors to plan, build, and operate cutting-edge facilities. we cultivate excellence, deliver value, enhance education, and engage the public.

Science & Tech
4
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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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.

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6
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
7
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
8
United States Artists Inc

To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
11
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
12
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hellenic Initiative Inc; the most unlike its peers is The University of Queensland in America 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

17 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. 17 of the 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND IN AMERICA INC: $6,030,535 · InternationalTHE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND IN AMERICA INC+3 more: $125,000 · InternationalUniversity of Queensland: $4,001,000 · OtherUniversity of QueenslandTHE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH OF THE HAMPTONS: $160,000 · Other+8 more: $188,500 · OtherB TEAM HEADQUARTERS INC: $325,000 · EnvironmentSocial Impact Fund: $100,000 · PhilanthropyRALLY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyHOPELAND: $75,000 · Human ServicesAN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTER: $15,000 · Arts & CultureUNMANAGEABLE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $50,000 · EducationManhattan University: $20,000 · EducationPETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS: $50,000 · Social Science
International$6,155,535Other$4,349,500Environment$325,000Philanthropy$120,000Human Services$75,000Arts & Culture$70,000Education$70,000Social Science$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND IN AMERICA INC: $6,030,535 over 3y, 88% of budgetB TEAM HEADQUARTERS INC: $325,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetHELLENIC INITIATIVE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSocial Impact Fund: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOPELAND: $75,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetAN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Midland County: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRALLY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetManhattan University: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNMANAGEABLE: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Renaissance Charitabl…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Renaissance Charitable Foundation IncIN10.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Paula and Andrew Liveris Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Paula and Andrew Liveris Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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 · 0–90%
    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 Paula and Andrew Liveris 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 24 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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