· Private foundation
The Tina Snider 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $255k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+3 grants · $850k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEVURA FUND | $350,000 |
| CENTER FOR PEACE COMMUNICATIONS INC | $250,000 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH ADVOCACY CENTER | $250,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES INC | $168,475 |
| YUD FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| MACCABI USA INC | $100,000 |
| THE LOUIS D BRANDEIS CENTER INC | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ELNET | $100,000 |
| FUENTE LATINA INC | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SAMARITANS INC | $100,000 |
| DONORS TRUST INC | $100,000 |
| STAND STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC | $52,500 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE PHILANTHROPY ROUND TABLE | $50,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of The Tina Snider 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, 18% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 14% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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 +14% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 23 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- FFFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $518k · revenue +36%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +3%
- FLFuente Latina Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $250k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILAone grant, 2023 · $100k
- MWMACCABI WORLD UNION INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKone grant, 2023 · $50k
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 promote free expression, academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, and open scientific inquiry in the MIT community
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.
Middle east investment initiative, inc. (meii) stimulates sustainable economic activity and long-lasting job creation in the middle east and north africa (mena) by designing and deploying finance and technical assistance programs to…
Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Moving Picture Institute and the most unlike its peers is Stand Strong International Inc. 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 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 68 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 CENTER FOR PEACE COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
- Who funds GEVURA FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITANS INC ↗
- Who funds Fuente Latina Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds MACCABI USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Donors Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE STEAMBOAT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MACCABI WORLD UNION INC ↗
- Who funds Yud Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARS FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST ↗
- Who funds STAND STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DEFENDING EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX MULTISPORT INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE COBBOSSEE WATERSHED ↗
- Who funds DO NO HARM ↗
- Who funds THE LAWFARE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds VMTS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK 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: The Snider Foundation · The Marcus Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Bruce J Anderson Foundation · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Jay and Terry Snider Foundation · Max Kagan Family Foundation · The Milstein Family Foundation · Tower Family Fund Inc
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 Tina Snider 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.
- Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
- Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated — 16% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% 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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