· Private foundation
Trust Uwo Herman Dana
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $725k
- $250k+2 grants · $524k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HADASSAH MEDICAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC | $261,883 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES | $261,883 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $175,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $150,000 |
| HEBREW SENIOR LIFE | $150,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON | $100,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC - IMPACT SE | $75,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISREAL FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER BOSTON | $30,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES | $25,000 |
| HILLEL INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NEVE SHALOM | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF IR DAVID | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $590k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HSHebrew Senior Life Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $950k · revenue +35%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON8× · 2017–2024 · $590k · revenue +19%
- FOFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC8× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- WJWYNER JEWISH HERITAGE CENTERone grant, 2020 · $50k
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTHgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +50%- PIPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC - EMEK MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2022 · $21k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
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…
The mission of uri hillel is to enrich the lives of jewish students at the university of rhode island so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. 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 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 38 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds HADASSAH MEDICAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
- Who funds THE ISRAEL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
- Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NEWS SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY HILLEL ADVISORY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Justin & Genevieve Wyner Trust · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Communal Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Trust Uwo Herman Dana 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.
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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