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Ullman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$90k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of ULLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
$1,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNION COLLEGE$18,000
COLUMBIA-GREEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (NURSING)$10,000
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL$5,000
TACONIC HILLS DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS$4,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$3,000
HAWTHRONE VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL$3,000
CONGREGATION ANSHE EMETH$3,000
ASU BIODESIGN INSTITUTE$3,000
WILLIS EYE RESIDENT'S FUND$3,000
FRIENDS SEMINARY SCHOOL$2,500
CLAVERACK FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY$2,500
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$2,000
OPERATION UNITE$2,000
SUNY ALBANY FOUNDATION$1,500
DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN$1,500
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 (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%COLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN: $1k → 9%THE RED CROSS: $1k → 14%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

NY
MA
IA
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
TX

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$418k · 46 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
21

Total granted

$418k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+65%

Still filing today

48%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • UH
    UPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $69k · revenue +24%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $9k · revenue +44%
  • CC
    COLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • CF
    CMH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • TC
    TEMPLE CHAVERIM
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • KF
    KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1k

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
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

6
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
10
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

11
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
12
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ps 21 Inc. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Policy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Public Library OperationsAddiction Recovery ServicesLocal History MuseumsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Pregnancy Support Services
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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr14%11%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr19%16%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr19%8%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%51%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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%0/50
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,710

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

47 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. 47 of the 83 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
33/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNION COLLEGE — $109,000 · OtherUNION COLLEGEHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL — $19,000 · OtherHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOLTACONIC HILLS DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS — $17,500 · OtherTACONIC HILLS DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARSASU BIODESIGN INSTITUTE — $16,200 · OtherCONGREGATION ANSHE EMETH — $13,000 · OtherCLAVERACK FREE LIBRARY — $11,750 · Other+42 more — $128,095 · Other+42 moreUPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $69,000 · HealthUPPER HUDSON PLANNED…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $8,750 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer I…COLUMBIA-GREENE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $4,300 · Health+2 more — $2,000 · HealthBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $16,000 · EducationCOLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $7,800 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $2,805 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE FERGUSON LIBRARY INC — $2,350 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $1,800 · EducationTHE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION — $1,250 · Education+4 more — $1,660 · EducationTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $5,100 · InternationalPROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC — $3,500 · InternationalVISION HEALTH INTERNATIONAL — $2,750 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $2,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,000 · International+2 more — $500 · InternationalPRO PUBLICA INC — $6,100 · Arts & CulturePS 21 INC — $4,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM — $1,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $350 · Arts & CultureCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $4,500 · EnvironmentCOLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $2,000 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE — $1,750 · EnvironmentDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $1,500 · EnvironmentMOHAWK HUDSON LAND CONSERVANCY — $750 · EnvironmentAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $3,000 · Human ServicesCOLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN INC — $1,000 · Human Services
Other$314,545Health$84,050Education$33,665International$15,350Arts & Culture$13,450Environment$10,500Human Services$4,000

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 budgetUPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $69,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $8,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $7,800 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $6,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc — $5,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $5,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA-GREENE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $4,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPS 21 INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $2,805 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVISION HEALTH INTERNATIONAL — $2,750 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FERGUSON LIBRARY INC — $2,350 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetOPERATION UNITE NEW YORK INC — $2,350 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $1,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE — $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $1,525 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROWAN CENTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION — $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALBANY ACADEMIES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAD IN AMERICA FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOHAWK HUDSON LAND CONSERVANCY — $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREMOTE AREA MEDICAL — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $205 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS — $205 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFree Software Foundation Inc — $205 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHETERODOX ACADEMY — $205 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEARD MUSEUM — $100 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.

  • Who funds UPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
  • Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC
  • Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
  • Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC
  • Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PS 21 INC
  • Who funds PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds VISION HEALTH INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FERGUSON LIBRARY INC

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.

Hrbt FoundationNY19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hrbt Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · The Ackerman Foundation Inc · Rheinstrom Hill Community Foundation · T Backer Fund Inc · The Dyson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Arthur and Eileen Newman Family Foundation · Flood-Gamble Foundation Inc · The Reinhart Foundation · The Alexander and Marjorie Hover 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 Ullman 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 · 70%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 30%
  • Hias Inc88% of income from government
  • The Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut Inc81% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Brandeis University9% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ullman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ullman Family Foundation 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 83 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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