· Private foundation
The Plesser Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEITZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE | $15,000 |
| ST JUDE | $6,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $6,000 |
| ASPCA | $4,800 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $4,200 |
| CHARITY GOLF TODAY | $4,200 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $3,000 |
| US FUND FOR UNICEF | $3,000 |
| HOPE FOR WARRIORS | $3,000 |
| HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| GIVE WELL | $1,200 |
| PECONIC TRUST | $1,200 |
| FOOD BANK NYC | $1,200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $85k · revenue +135%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +39%- TATHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- BFBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +45%
- AHAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +136%
- BHBROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
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.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 37 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Hope For The Warriors ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds PECONIC LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEW CITY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG THOUGHT ↗
- Who funds REPAIR THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION RESTORE SIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DISABILITY FUND INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Plesser Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Plesser Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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