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The Underground Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$664k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

International$1.9MReligion$1.1MPhilanthropy$868kEducation$800kHuman Services$494kCivil Rights$400kHealth$148kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $513
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $540k
  • $250k+2 grants · $914k
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND & PIF$664,000
CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL$250,000
CHABAD OF GRAMERCY PARK$220,000
ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATION INC$170,000
FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION$100,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL$50,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$25,000
CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF THE HAMPTONS$20,000
BELEV ECHAD INC$16,000
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC$513
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 (FY21–24, $578k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%MAX CURE FOUNDATION INC: $31k → 17%MAX CURE FOUNDATION INC: $30k → 17%MAX CURE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 17%BELEV ECHAD INC: $290k → 17%BELEV ECHAD INC: $100k → 17%BELEV ECHAD INC: $85k → 17%BELEV ECHAD INC: $16k → 17%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

MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
DC

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.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.5M · 11 repeat orgs$934k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
14

Total granted

$4.5M
$200k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+8%

Still filing today

82%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $734k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsEducationHealthOther

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

  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +98%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $550k · revenue +207%
  • BE
    BELEV ECHAD INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $491k · revenue +497%

Funded once

  • EI
    EZRAT ISRAEL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $55k
  • BD
    BNEI DAVID FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -21%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $20k

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
Yad Yosef Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Better Future for Israel

To strengthen israel's future in these areas: 1)providing new immigrants with assistance in a few key areas: representing them as they navigate government ministries and assisting them with their challenges as new immigrants to israel.…

Philanthropy
3
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Jewish Year Abroad

To provide an education based program in israel for college age jewish young adults that will instill students with a sense of purpose, commitment & pride about

International
5
Us Israel Education Fund Inc
6
University of Judaism Foundation
7
American Israel Education Fund
International
8
Bais Yisrael Foundation
9
Sherit Isroel
10
Darchei Noam Inc

To enhance jewish education for children in israel by developing advanced educational methods, focusing on the building of personal relationships with the students to ensure that the needs of each individual are met. every child can be…

11
Friends of Institute for Zionist

The organization seeks to reinforce the foundations of israel as a jewish and democratic state. it acts to promote programs to educate the israeli public on the importance of both values and to demonstrate how each contributes to and…

International
12
American Friends of Kohelet Policy Forum

The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Israel Fund Ltd and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%5%<5yr14%14%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%16%5–10yr20%33%10–20yr19%10%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,738

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.

04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 30 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHABAD OF GRAMERCY PARK — $920,000 · OtherCHABAD OF GRAMERCY PARKFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND & PIF — $664,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND & PIF+13 more — $275,901 · Other+13 moreCentral Fund of Israel — $1,580,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of IsraelAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $175,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATIO…+4 more — $38,000 · InternationalBELEV ECHAD INC — $491,000 · Human ServicesBELEV ECHAD…THE MAX CURE FOUNDATION INC — $86,000 · Human ServicesTHE MAX CUR…+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC — $550,000 · Youth DevelopmentALLIANCE F…FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $400,000 · Civil RightsDaffy Charitable Fund — $166,876 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $152,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $2,534 · PhilanthropyNO LEFT TURN IN EDUCATION — $250,000 · Education
Other$1,859,901International$1,793,000Human Services$578,000Youth Development$550,000Civil Rights$400,000Philanthropy$321,410Education$250,000

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 budgetCentral Fund of Israel — $1,580,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC — $550,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetBELEV ECHAD INC — $491,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $400,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNO LEFT TURN IN EDUCATION — $250,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $175,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDaffy Charitable Fund — $166,876 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $152,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MAX CURE FOUNDATION INC — $86,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetBNEI DAVID FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE NETANYA FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetONE ISRAEL FUND LTD — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR LEHOSHEET YAD — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWorldwide Friends Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOUSE INC — $2,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALIN BEIT NOAM INC — $2,534 over 1y, 43% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $2,051 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Jewish Communal FundNY18.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Underground Family 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 · 40%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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