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The Sidney & Beatrice Albert Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2018
8
Grants FY2018
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172018.

Human Services$92kInternational$23kAnimals$17kHousing & Shelter$15kCivil Rights$14kEducation$13kArts & Culture$13kFood & Nutrition$9kOther$0
02FY2018 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k7 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE LAMP FOR HAITI FOUNDATION$10,000
EQUINOX INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
EAST LAKE COMMUNITY LIBRARY$1,000
WEDU$1,000
WUSF$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
DC
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 100% of The Sidney & Beatrice Albert Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Sidney & Beatrice Albert Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$119k · 7 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +275% since the first grant, against +75% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
23

Total granted

$119k
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+275%
+75%

Still filing today

29%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
AnimalsArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCivil RightsEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $60k
  • TL
    THE LAMP FOR HAITI FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k
  • EI
    EQUINOX INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • DO
    DAUGHTERS OF SARAH JEWISH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +75%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +102%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

2
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
3
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

4
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
5
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
6
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
7
American Arbitration Association Inc

The american arbitration association ("aaa") is dedicated to effective, efficient and economical methods of dispute resolution through education, technology and solutions-oriented service.

Crime & Legal
8
Amazon Conservation Association

Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…

Environment
9
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
10
Liberty Justice Center

To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…

Crime & Legal
11
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Iowa

The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…

Civil Rights
12
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy for Animals Inc and the most unlike its peers is Exoneration Initiative. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $60,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERTHE LAMP FOR HAITI FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherTHE LAMP FOR HAITI FOUNDATIONDAUGHTERS OF SARAH JEWISH FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 · OtherDAUGHTERS OF SARAH JEWISH FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWUSF — $6,000 · Other+15 more — $42,500 · Other+15 moreEQUINOX INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $9,000 · AnimalsMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC — $3,000 · AnimalsAsia Wild — $1,500 · AnimalsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $11,500 · Civil RightsFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $6,000 · Arts & CultureAUSTERLITZ HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $2,500 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $1,500 · Arts & CultureALBANY LAW SCHOOL — $5,000 · EducationHUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC — $5,000 · Human Services
Other$160,500Housing & Shelter$15,000Animals$13,500Civil Rights$11,500Arts & Culture$10,000Education$5,000Human Services$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEQUINOX INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDAUGHTERS OF SARAH JEWISH FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $11,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALBANY LAW SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTERLITZ HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXONERATION INITIATIVE — $1,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAsia Wild — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Ge Aerospace FoundationCT12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Sidney & Beatrice Albert 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 47%
  • Mercy Corps47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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