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The Tina Snider Foundation at a glance

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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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

International$2.0MCivil Rights$685kEducation$522kCrime & Legal$505kPhilanthropy$450kHealth$385kRecreation & Sports$265kReligion$140kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $255k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+3 grants · $850k
$14,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEVURA FUND$350,000
NATIONAL JEWISH ADVOCACY CENTER$250,000
CENTER FOR PEACE COMMUNICATIONS INC$250,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES INC$168,475
SAMARITANS INC$100,000
DONORS TRUST INC$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$100,000
FRIENDS OF ELNET$100,000
YUD FOUNDATION INC$100,000
THE LOUIS D BRANDEIS CENTER INC$100,000
MACCABI USA INC$100,000
FUENTE LATINA INC$100,000
STAND STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC$52,500
SCHOLARS FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST INC$50,000
JEWISH BUSINESS NETWORK$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BETTER TOGETHER STRENGTHENING FAM: $10k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $20k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $10k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

ME
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
HI
GA
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 14% of The Tina Snider Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 14%.

The Tina Snider Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 30 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
12

Total granted

$3.8M
$406k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+14%

Still filing today

90%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationEnvironmentHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • FF
    Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $518k · revenue +36%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +3%
  • FL
    Fuente Latina Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $250k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • MW
    MACCABI WORLD UNION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILA
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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.

1
Mit Free Speech Alliance

To promote free expression, academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, and open scientific inquiry in the MIT community

Civil Rights
2
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
3
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

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…

International
4
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Jewish Electorate Institute

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…

Civil Rights
6
Foreign Policy Research Institute

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…

International
7
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

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,…

International
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
9
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
10
International Republican Institute

Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.

Education
11
Middle East Investment Initiative Inc

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…

Community Improvement
12
Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology Inc

Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Moving Picture Institute; 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.
05the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 68 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
35/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CENTER FOR PEACE COMMUNICATIONS INC: $625,000 · InternationalTHE CENTER FOR PEACE COMMUNICATIONS INCFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $518,475 · InternationalFoundation for the Defense of Democracies…FRIENDS OF ELNET: $350,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ELNETFuente Latina Inc: $250,000 · InternationalFuente Latina IncPATHWAYS FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE: $125,000 · InternationalPATHWAYS FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACESCHOLARS FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST: $75,000 · International+2 more: $30,000 · InternationalGEVURA FUND: $350,000 · EducationGEVURA FUNDUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $300,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLO…THE STEAMBOAT INSTITUTE: $100,000 · EducationTHE STEAMBOAT INST…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARY…+5 more: $8,440 · EducationNATIONAL JEWISH ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $250,000 · OtherNATIONAL JEWISH ADVOCACY CEN…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILA: $100,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER…IMPACT ISRAEL (YEMIN ORDE): $75,000 · OtherIMPACT ISRAEL (YEMIN ORDE)UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $50,000 · OtherJEWISH BUSINESS NETWORK: $50,000 · OtherMACCABI USA INC: $100,000 · OtherMACCABI USA INCSTAND STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC: $52,500 · OtherMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $50,000 · OtherYud Foundation Inc: $100,000 · OtherYud Foundation IncMACCABI WORLD UNION INC: $100,000 · OtherMACCABI WORLD UNION INCMACKINAC CENTER: $50,000 · Other+28 more: $396,500 · Other+28 moreSAMARITANS INC: $300,000 · HealthPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC: $30,000 · HealthFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthThe Louis D Brandeis Center Inc: $220,000 · Crime & LegalPacific Legal Foundation: $130,000 · Crime & LegalTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $150,000 · PhilanthropyDonors Trust Inc: $100,000 · PhilanthropyOPEN DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $125,000 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsDEFENDING EDUCATION: $35,000 · Civil Rights
International$1,973,475Education$858,440Other$1,374,000Health$350,000Crime & Legal$350,000Philanthropy$260,000Civil Rights$210,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CENTER FOR PEACE COMMUNICATIONS INC: $625,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $518,475 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET: $350,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITANS INC: $300,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFuente Latina Inc: $250,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetThe Louis D Brandeis Center Inc: $220,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $130,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPATHWAYS FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE: $125,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetMACCABI WORLD UNION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE STEAMBOAT INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOLARS FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST: $75,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSTAND STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC: $52,500 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDEFENDING EDUCATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $34,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST: $32,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE COBBOSSEE WATERSHED: $27,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetDO NO HARM: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LAWFARE PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVMTS EDUCATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETTER TOGETHER STRENGTHENING FAMILES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetITREK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetETHOS DISCOVERY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBangor Area Recovery Network Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENEROUS GARDENERS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Snider FoundationThe Marcus Foundation…Essex County Communit…Boston Foundation IncDonors Trust IncBruce J Anderson Foun…Institution for Savin…Jewish Community Fede…The Jay and Terry Sni…Max Kagan Family Foun…The Milstein Family F…Tower Family Fund Inc
The Snider FoundationPA50.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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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How do I get to The Tina Snider Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Tina Snider Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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