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The Phyllis Backer Foundation Inc

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.

$654k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$4.1MEducation$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.6MHousing & Shelter$626kArts & Culture$582kHealth$300kYouth Development$297kFood & Nutrition$137kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $154k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$30,872
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Child Center of NY Inc$500,000
Sunrise Day Camps Association$30,872
For The Girls$30,872
Jewish Home Lifecare Manhattan$30,872
Behind The Book Inc$30,872
The Child Center of NY Inc$30,871
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 (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE SAFE CENTER LI INC: $45k → 6%JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $75k → 20%FOR THE GIRLS: $25k → 8%THE SAFE CENTER LI INC: $33k → 6%JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $75k → 20%JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $75k → 20%JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $56k → 20%JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $40k → 20%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $140k → 6%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $100k → 6%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $100k → 6%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $74k → 6%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $50k → 6%Sunrise Day Camps Association: $31k → 6%INTEGRATE AUTISM EMPLOYMENT ADVISORS INC: $15k → 17%INTEGRATE AUTISM EMPLOYMENT ADVISORS INC: $10k → 17%INTEGRATE AUTISM EMPLOYMENT ADVISORS INC: $10k → 17%INTEGRATE AUTISM EMPLOYMENT ADVISORS INC: $15k → 17%BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $75k → 17%BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $75k → 17%BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $75k → 17%BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $75k → 17%BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $56k → 17%BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $50k → 17%BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $50k → 17%BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.3M · 21 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
3

Total granted

$9.3M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+37%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHILD CENTER OF NY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +73%
  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.5M · revenue +45%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE REMEMBER THE WOMEN INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -89% · 41% of their budget
  • QC
    QUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +59%
  • IT
    ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +37%
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
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
2
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services
5
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
6
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
7
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
8
Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc

To empower new yorkers, providing integrated mental health and social services with compassion and expertise.

Human Services
9
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
10
Long Island Community Hospital At Nyu Langone Health

The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…

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11
Luria Academy of Brooklyn

Luria academy is a child-centered environment dedicated to academic excellence and a sophisticated knowledge of jewish text and jewish heritage. located in the prospect heights neighborhood of brookly, luria academy is a jewish…

Education
12
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University Settlement Society of New York; the most unlike its peers is The Remember the Women Institute. 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

24 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $1,500,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITYBEHIND THE BOOK INC: $296,772 · EducationBEHIND THE BOOK INCLITERACY INC: $187,000 · EducationLITERACY INC+2 more: $55,000 · EducationTHE CHILD CENTER OF NY INC: $1,830,871 · OtherTHE CHILD CENTER OF NY …UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $145,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT S…WESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $735,000 · HealthWESTCHESTER JEWISH …JEWISH HOME LIFECARE MANHATTAN: $579,972 · HealthJEWISH HOME LIFECAR…HEALTHY HUMOR INC: $300,000 · HealthHEALTHY HUMOR INCUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,407,577 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPE…FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $163,500 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY …SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $494,872 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS…BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $480,500 · Human ServicesBROADWAY HOUSING …JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $320,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH CHILD CARE…The Safe Center LI Inc: $78,300 · Human ServicesFor the Girls Inc: $55,872 · Human ServicesINTEGRATE AUTISM EMPLOYMENT ADVISORS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART: $292,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC: $190,250 · Arts & CultureNassau County Museum of Art: $54,350 · Arts & CultureSearching For Identity Foundation Inc: $45,000 · Arts & CultureTHE INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK INC: $137,000 · Food & NutritionISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · International
Education$2,038,772Other$1,975,871Health$1,614,972Philanthropy$1,571,077Human Services$1,480,044Arts & Culture$581,600Food & Nutrition$137,000International$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CHILD CENTER OF NY INC: $1,830,871 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $1,500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,407,577 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $735,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH HOME LIFECARE MANHATTAN: $579,972 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $494,872 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetBROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $480,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $320,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHY HUMOR INC: $300,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetBEHIND THE BOOK INC: $296,772 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART: $292,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetTHE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC: $190,250 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetLITERACY INC: $187,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $163,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $145,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK INC: $137,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Safe Center LI Inc: $78,300 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFor the Girls Inc: $55,872 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNassau County Museum of Art: $54,350 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetINTEGRATE AUTISM EMPLOYMENT ADVISORS INC: $50,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetSearching For Identity Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetTHE REMEMBER THE WOMEN INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetQUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 Communal FundThe New York Communit…The Hyde and Watson F…Robin Hood FoundationAmerican Express Foun…The Reba Judith Sandl…Lily Auchincloss Foun…Cornelia T Bailey Cha…United Jewish Appeal-…The Ayco Charitable F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…
Jewish Communal FundNY22× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Reba Judith Sandler Foundation Inc · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Phyllis Backer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Phyllis Backer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 Phyllis Backer 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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