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The Yip Harburg Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$93k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Crime & Legal$73kArts & Culture$62kInternational$51kCivil Rights$43kEnvironment$30kEmployment$27kEducation$26kHuman Services$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$439k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THURSTON SANTO TOMAS SISTER COUNTY ASSN$20,000
JUSTICE BY OBJECTIVES$6,000
THE SISTERHOOD IS GLOBAL INSTITUTE INC$5,000
FREE TO RUN INC$5,000
THE CLINIC$5,000
BLACK ARTS MKE INC$5,000
FREER RECORDS INC$5,000
CIVIL JUSTICE INC$5,000
CONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF SAINT JOSEPH$5,000
OO PROJECT$5,000
OPENING WORD PROGRAM INC$5,000
CATCHING THE DREAM$3,000
MIDWESTERN INNOCENCE PROJECT INC$2,500
GENERATING INCOME FOR TOMORROW$2,500
OAKLAND PEACE CENTER$2,500
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 (FY24–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $5k → 13%FREE TO RUN INC: $5k → 9%INNOVATIONS HUMAN TRAFFICKING COLLABORATIVE: $5k → 9%AMERICAN CENTRAL ASIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $3k → 20%AD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME: $3k → 15%NEW NEIGHBORS PARTNERSHIP ASSOCIATION: $2k → 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

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
NJ
CT
CA
UT
MO
WV
VA
MD
NM
TN
DC
AL
TX
FL

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$244k · 24 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
36

Total granted

$244k
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

79%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalHuman ServicesInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • R
    Run-Hope-Work
    3× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +45%
  • DM
    DIOCESAN MIGRANT & REFUGEE SERVICES INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +25%
  • BA
    BLACK ARTS MKE INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $11k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • RA
    Rainforest Action Network
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -29%
  • BE
    BREAKFREE EDUCATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -58%
  • KD
    KEEP DREAMS ALIVE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k

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
Guernica Centre for InternationalJustice

The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…

International
2
Detention Watch Network

Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.

Human Services
3
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
4
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
5
Breaking Through the Lens

Advocate for gender equality in the film industry.

Arts & Culture
6
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
7
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
8
Shift Project Ltd

At Shift, we have one purpose: to transform how business gets done in order to ensure respect for peoples lives and dignity. We believe that the best way to advance our mission is by working directly with Businesses to help shape their…

International
9
The Oakland Institute

The Oakland Institute, an independent policy think tank, works to support global struggles for Indigenous rights, human rights, and land rights and to promote public participation and fair debate on critical social, economic, and…

Food & Nutrition
10
Equal Justice Society

The Equal Justice Society (EJS) is transforming the nations consciousness on racethrough law, social science, and the arts. EJS works to dismantle structural andinstitutional racism to advance robust equal protection under the Fourteenth…

Civil Rights
11
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
12
Institute for Americas Future Inc

Iaf's purpose is to conduct research and publicize findings concerning citizen's attitudes about economic options confronting america. iaf is devoted to fostering a robust and democratic debate about ideas that will shape our country's…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Ensemble Theater Corporation and the most unlike its peers is 350EUG. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Environmental Conservation …Domestic Violence ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Health Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyIndependent K-12 SchoolsImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsSchool District FoundationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 14 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%21%5–10yr19%37%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%10%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/68
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,497

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

60 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. 60 of the 69 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/60
Grantees still filing
28/60
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THURSTON SANTO TOMAS SISTER COUNTY ASSN — $30,000 · OtherTHURSTON SANTO TOMAS SISTER COUNTY ASSNDIOCESAN MIGRANT & REFUGEE SERVICES INC — $15,000 · OtherDIOCESAN MIGRANT & REFUGEE SERVICES INCCONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF SAINT JOSEPH — $10,000 · OtherCONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF SAINT JOSEPHTHE MEN OF HONOR YOUTH MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC — $8,500 · OtherJUSTICE BY OBJECTIVES — $6,000 · OtherRun-Hope-Work — $15,000 · OtherRun-Hope-WorkThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc — $6,000 · OtherOO PROJECT — $10,000 · OtherOO PROJECTRainforest Action Network — $10,000 · OtherRainforest Action NetworkCAMPAIGN FOR UYGHURS INC — $10,000 · OtherCAMPAIGN FOR UYGHURS INC+21 more — $55,451 · Other+21 moreTHE BAIL PROJECT INC — $15,000 · Crime & LegalTHE BAIL PROJE…FREER RECORDS INC — $10,000 · Crime & LegalFREER RECORDS …CIVIL JUSTICE INC — $10,000 · Crime & LegalCIVIL JUSTICE …MIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $7,500 · Crime & LegalMIDWEST INNOCE…PEN & SWORD — $5,000 · Crime & LegalPEN & SWORDTHE RISE FOUNDATION BY ENVOY INC — $2,000 · Crime & LegalBLACK ARTS MKE INC — $11,000 · Arts & CultureBLACK ARTS M…WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $8,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE M…THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER F…THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATER FOR …Inside Out Media — $2,500 · Arts & CultureInside Out M…Arhoolie Foundation — $2,500 · Arts & CultureArhoolie Fou…BLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER CORPORATION — $2,500 · Arts & CultureBLACK ENSEMB…STAGE LEFT THEATER ASSOCIATION — $2,500 · Arts & CultureSTAGE LEFT T…INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureCAZATEATRO BILNGUAL THEATER GROUP — $1,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $1,500 · Arts & CultureDAVIS-PUTTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $12,500 · EducationDAVIS-PUT…THE VILLAGE A COMMUNITY MUSICAL ART ALLIANCE INC — $8,500 · EducationTHE VILLA…Catching the Dream — $5,000 · EducationCatching …350EUG — $2,500 · Education350EUGLEARNING THROUGH AN EXPANDED ARTS PROGRAM INC — $2,000 · EducationLEARNING …THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK INC — $1,750 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationWisconsin Network for Peace and Justice Inc — $22,500 · Civil RightsWisconsin…National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $5,000 · Civil RightsNational …EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $5,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUS…Dignity Period — $10,000 · InternationalSISTERHOOD IS GLOBAL INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 · InternationalEquality Now Inc — $2,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 · InternationalMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesFREE TO RUN INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesInnovations Human Trafficking Collaborative — $5,000 · Human ServicesAD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME — $2,500 · Human ServicesAmerican Central Asian Association Inc — $2,500 · Human ServicesNEW NEIGHBORS PARTNERSHIP ASSOCIATION — $2,200 · Human Services
Other$175,951Crime & Legal$49,500Arts & Culture$41,500Education$33,250Civil Rights$32,500International$23,500Human Services$22,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWisconsin Network for Peace and Justice Inc — $22,500 over 5y, 18% of budgetRun-Hope-Work — $15,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDIOCESAN MIGRANT & REFUGEE SERVICES INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDAVIS-PUTTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $12,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetBLACK ARTS MKE INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetOO PROJECT — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDignity Period — $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCAMPAIGN FOR UYGHURS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFREER RECORDS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCIVIL JUSTICE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSISTERHOOD IS GLOBAL INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRainforest Action Network — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VILLAGE A COMMUNITY MUSICAL ART ALLIANCE INC — $8,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc — $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKFREE EDUCATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatching the Dream — $5,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERCARE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOWER SHIFT NETWORK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPENING WORD PROGRAM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOpus 1 Foundation Corp — $4,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHEATER FOR THE NEW CITY FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGENERATING INCOME FOR TOMORROW — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGIT — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInside Out Media — $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetArhoolie Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEquality Now Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER CORPORATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTAGE LEFT THEATER ASSOCIATION — $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budget350EUG — $2,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetOakland Peace Center — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRENAISSANCE NEWARK FOUNDATION INC — $2,250 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLEARNING THROUGH AN EXPANDED ARTS PROGRAM INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK INC — $1,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAZATEATRO BILNGUAL THEATER GROUP — $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEVERGREEN GOODWILL OF NORTHWEST WASHINGTON — $1,001 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE & ART — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCABIN CREEK CENTER FOR WORK & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRock Creek Conservancy Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Ford FoundationThe Hyde and Watson F…Public Welfare Founda…Open Society InstituteAmalgamated Charitabl…Rockefeller Philanthr…The New York Communit…California Community …Silicon Valley Commun…ImpactassetsincThe Chicago Community…Jewish Communal Fund
The Ford FoundationNY17.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · Open Society Institute · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The New York Community Trust · California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund

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 Yip Harburg Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Rock Creek Conservancy Inc — 60% of income from government
  • Civil Justice Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Sheltercare — 18% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Yip Harburg Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Yip Harburg Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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