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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 it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$253kHealth$108kScience & Tech$27kReligion$21kInternational$14kEnvironment$12kArts & Culture$9kCivil Rights$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
HAWTHRONE VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL$3,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$3,000
CONGREGATION ANSHE EMETH$3,000
WILLIS EYE RESIDENT'S FUND$3,000
ASU BIODESIGN INSTITUTE$3,000
CLAVERACK FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY$2,500
FRIENDS SEMINARY SCHOOL$2,500
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$2,000
OPERATION UNITE$2,000
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT$1,500
TEAM RUBICON$1,500
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.

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Its 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. Its 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
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

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • UH
    UPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $69k · revenue +24%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $9k · revenue +62%
  • 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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 83 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
32/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetOPERATION UNITE NEW YORK INC: $2,350 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FERGUSON LIBRARY INC: $2,350 over 3y, 1.2% 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 budgetTHE ROWAN CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY 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 budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALBANY ACADEMIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med: $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 budgetINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS: $205 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $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
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.

  • 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 OPERATION UNITE NEW YORK INC ↗

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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • The Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut Inc: 81% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% 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, 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.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 83 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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