How much does The Plato Malozemoff Foundation give?

The Plato Malozemoff Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $89,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Plato Malozemoff Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (19%), Environment (18%), Education (9%).

Who are The Plato Malozemoff Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc ($40k), Ploughshares Fund Inc ($38k), Givedirectly Inc ($34k).

Does The Plato Malozemoff Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Plato Malozemoff Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Plato Malozemoff Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Seattle Foundation.

Where is The Plato Malozemoff Foundation based?

The Plato Malozemoff Foundation is based in MA.

The Plato Malozemoff Foundation

The Plato Malozemoff Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Plato Malozemoff 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.

$89k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$7k

Largest

01What it funds

0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$138kEnvironment$128kEducation$66kHuman Services$60kHousing & Shelter$56kHealth$49kScience & Tech$46kFood & Nutrition$29kOther$0

02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS	$7,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$5,000
GIVE DIRECTLY	$5,000
OCEAN CONSERVANCY	$4,750
CONSERVATION LANDS FOUNDATION	$4,750
EPIPHANY SCHOOL	$4,000
CONSERVATION LANDS FOUNDATION	$4,000
PLOUGHSHARES FUND	$4,000
RAINFOREST TRUST	$3,500
IMPACCT BROOKLYN	$3,200
CYPRESS HILLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION	$3,200
NEIGBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF QUEENS CDC INC	$3,100
EDEN REFORESTATION PROJECTS	$3,000
MERCY CORPS	$3,000

02The need

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, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$664k · 43 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$664k

$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

Still filing today

84%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterOther

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

THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +5%
GIVEDIRECTLY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +302%
THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +288%

Funded once

GG
GLOBAL GIVINGRUSSIAN PROGRAMS
one grant, 2020 · $10k
PI
PARTNERS IN HEALTH - RUSSIA PROGRAM
one grant, 2017 · $7k
RA
Rainforest Action Network
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -22%

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.

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

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

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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Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International

Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment

Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International

Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal

Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Bread-the Walk for Hunger Inc; the most unlike its peers is Icon Museum and Study Center 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

43 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. 43 of the 56 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/43

Grantees still filing

34/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$204,750Other$188,100Environment$100,500Education$61,000Human Services$60,500Housing & Shelter$50,150Health$44,000

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

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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY14.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

10report 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home