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The Treetops 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.

$713k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$180k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$2.6MHuman Services$1.4MEducation$1.0MArts & Culture$696kCivil Rights$573kPhilanthropy$424kInternational$415kPublic Safety & Disaster$37kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $131k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $552k
$3,600
Median grant
8
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIMMUD FSU INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$180,000
PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE$112,488
USC PARENTS FUND$100,000
TAFT SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT$86,000
FRIENDS OF THE IDF$74,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA$31,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM$30,000
UJA$25,000
EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL$25,000
VENETIAN HERITAGE INC$10,000
FRIENDS OF B'SHVIL HAMACHAR$10,000
BELEV ECHAD$3,600
MET COUNCIL NY$3,600
SIXPOINT INC$3,600
FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS$3,600
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%LA'ARETZ: $5k → 20%OUR PLACE IN NEW YORK INC: $5k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OR NATIONAL MISSIONS: $3k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $2k → 17%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $360 → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $4k → 17%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

WI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 25 repeat orgs$758k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
50

Total granted

$6.5M
$602k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+33%

Still filing today

64%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesEducationInternationalArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +11%
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $573k · revenue +86%
  • HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
    2× · 2021–2023 · $303k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • AH
    AISH HACHAIM- MOONLIGHT GALA
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ISRAEL INIATIVE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $72k
  • 9
    92NY
    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
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
4
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
5
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
6
The Jerusalem Connection
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7
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
8
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc

Yivo's mission is to study the thousand-year history of jewish life in eastern europe and russia in all its aspects: language, history, religion, folkways and material culture. yivo's archive and library preserves a significant collection…

Religion
9
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
10
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
11
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
12
American Society for Technion Israel Institute of Technology Inc

The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Friends of the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 91 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
31/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INC: $1,159,388 · OtherPARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INCHILLELS THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH: $460,000 · OtherHILLELS THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISHAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $446,120 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRATAFT SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT: $208,000 · OtherTAFT SCHOOL DEVELOPMENTNYU-BRONFMAN CENTER ENDOWMENT FUND: $203,600 · OtherNYU-BRONFMAN CENTER ENDOWMENT FUND+55 more: $746,464 · Other+55 moreTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $1,402,100 · ReligionTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S H…LIMMUD FSU INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $455,000 · ReligionLIMMUD FSU INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $302,800 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CA…+4 more: $110,000 · ReligionWilliams College: $500,000 · EducationWilliams …ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $106,300 · EducationALLEN-CHA…+4 more: $14,600 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $572,950 · Civil RightsFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $218,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $35,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL INC: $26,955 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $18,000 · International+3 more: $12,230 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $156,800 · Arts & CultureVENETIAN HERITAGE INC: $47,700 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $4,300 · Arts & CultureFEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC: $49,600 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,800 · Philanthropy+3 more: $1,880 · Philanthropy
Other$3,223,572Religion$2,269,900Education$620,900Civil Rights$572,950International$310,185Arts & Culture$208,800Philanthropy$53,280

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 YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $1,402,100 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $572,950 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWilliams College: $500,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIMMUD FSU INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $455,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $302,800 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $218,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $156,800 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $106,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC: $49,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVENETIAN HERITAGE INC: $47,700 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE: $40,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetZAKA NORTH INC: $37,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL INC: $26,955 over 2y, 15% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT INSPIRE INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BSHVIL HAMACHAR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL: $5,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Chabad of Thailand Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLA-ARETZ: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOUR PLACE IN NY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIXPOINT INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBELEV ECHAD INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends Of Or National Missions: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,872 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American-Scandinavian Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMRCHARITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEACHING MATTERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $730 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $610 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE BACK FOUNDATION: $280 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.

  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds LIMMUD FSU INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
  • Who funds FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC ↗
  • Who funds VENETIAN HERITAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE ↗
  • Who funds ZAKA NORTH INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT INSPIRE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BSHVIL HAMACHAR INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY28.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Z S & M Wilf Foundation Inc · Kolatch Family Foundation · The Koum Family Foundation · The Ojc Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The New York Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Treetops Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Treetops Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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 91 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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