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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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 its 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
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

MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
DC
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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
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

  • 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
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
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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Israel Fund Ltd; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 30 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetWorldwide Friends Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR LEHOSHEET YAD: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% 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
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.

Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…The Chicago Community…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% 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, 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 30 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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