How much did WALTER & SARAH DIENER FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of WALTER & SARAH DIENER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

israel

2021

—

2022

contributoinjewish

2023

—

2024

cancer

2025

israel

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k8 grants · $24k
$10k–50k6 grants · $167k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON$43,750
MAKOM$35,000
CHARLES SMITH LIFE COMMUNITIES$27,500
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND HILLELL$25,000
SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$20,000
THE DIENER SCHOOL$15,708
CHILDRENS INN$5,000
MEDSTAR HEALTH$5,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$5,000
BNAI ISRAEL$3,000
HOPE CONNECTIONS FOR CANCER$2,000
SUNFLOWER BAKERY$2,000
LACROSSE THE GLOBE$1,000
NER ISRAEL RABBINICAL COLLEGE$750

02The need

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 (FY21–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$860k · 20 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$860k

$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

+15%

Still filing today

40%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionEmploymentOther

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

HH
HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON
2× · 2024–2025 · $99k · revenue +6%
TD
THE DIENER SCHOOL
2× · 2024–2025 · $31k · revenue +142%
MH
MEDSTAR HEALTH
3× · 2022–2025 · $18k · revenue +25%

Funded once

WS
WOODSIDE SYNAGOGUE AHAVAT TORAH
one grant, 2020 · $18k
NN
NOURISH NOW
one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +288%
SH
SUBURBAN HOSPITAL
one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +18%

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.

Sacred Heart Health System Inc

To improve the health and well-being of all people in the communities we serve.

Health

South Shore Hospital Inc

South shore hospital's primary exempt purpose is to provide health care services to the community including surgical, medical and other treatment of the sick and injured.

Health

Trinity Health Corporation

To provide health care system management and support

Health

Hmh Hospitals Corporation

The organization is committed to providing the full spectrum of life-enhancing care and services to create and sustain healthy, vibrant communities.

Health

Georgetown Healthcare System Inc

The organization is dedicated to the promotion of quality, accessible healthcare for all persons living in the georgetown, tx community and surrounding area. as a partner in the st. david's healthcare partnership, we provide healthcare to…

Health

Primary Health Care Inc

Primary health care provides medical, mental health, dental, and supportive services with exceptional compassion and respect.

Health

Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc

To provide quality patient care, educate medical students & residents, and engage in medical research to improve the lives of our patients and our community.

Health

Genesis Health Inc

Support and administration for brooks rehabilitation hospital and affiliates.

Health

Integris Health Inc

To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.

Health

Medstar Southern Md Hospital Center Inc

Medstar southern md hospital center upholds its tradition of caring by (continued on sch. o) continuously promoting, maintaining and improving health through education and service.

Health

Nch Healthcare System Inc

Helping everyone live a longer, happier, and healthier life. our vision is to be a world-class leader of excellence in healthcare and to provide excellence in every patient experience. the system is dedicated to serving the community's…

Health

Integrated Health Corporation

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Jewish Federation of Greater. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

15/16

Grantees still filing

10/16

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$669,400Health$221,610Education$30,708Housing & Shelter$15,000Food & Nutrition$11,500International$7,000Philanthropy$5,000

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.

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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC23× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater · Bender Foundation Inc · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz · American Gift Fund · The Wendi & Daniel H Abramowitz Family · Wolpoff Family Foundation · Elno Family Foundation Inc · The Cyrus Katzen Foundation Inc

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 organisation WALTER & SARAH DIENER 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NOURISH NOW.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~0 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

high risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing; revenue up 3.9× since.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 452404503 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NOURISH NOW, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Walter & Sarah Diener Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Walter & Sarah Diener Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WALTER & SARAH DIENER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Walter & Sarah Diener Foundation?

More from the funding graph

WALTER & SARAH DIENER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Walter & Sarah Diener Foundation?

More from the funding graph