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Purjes 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SYLVIA CENTER | $139,500 |
| SAVE THE WASATCH BENCH | $5,000 |
| WIKIPEDIA | $650 |
| FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC | $500 |
| ESSELSTYN FOUNDATION | $500 |
| SILENT ANGEL | $500 |
| NUTRITION FACTSORG | $500 |
| SARASOTA HIGH SCHOOL | $500 |
| TED FOUNDATION | $360 |
| DEERFIELD VALLEY RESCUE | $300 |
| VT LIONS CHARITIES | $300 |
| ASOLO REPERTORY THEATER | $300 |
| EATH & SKY INC | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
| SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY | $200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TSTHE SYLVIA CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $369k · revenue +53% · 28% of their budget
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC3× · 2018–2022 · $73k · revenue +62%- EFETHOS FARM PROJECT INC2× · 2021–2022 · $27k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- NYNew York Universitygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue +76%
- MHMontefiore Health System Incone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -3%
- MMMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +51%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
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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…
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
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Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Embrace Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 115 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE SYLVIA CENTER ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Montefiore Health System Inc ↗
- Who funds ETHOS FARM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Plantrician Project ↗
- Who funds The Esselstyn Family Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds A Cure in Our Lifetime Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GREENLEAF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Save the Wasatch Bench Inc ↗
- Who funds EMBRACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANNON POINT PRESERVATION CORP ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Nutritionfactsorg Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ALTA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Deerfield Valley Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CARE FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Express Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Synchrony Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Duke Energy Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Purjes Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc — 29% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Ethos Farm Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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