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Warner Fund Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$392k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$816kInternational$524kArts & Culture$288kHuman Services$106kReligion$68kAnimals$55kHealth$45kCivil Rights$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $167k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NY LAW SCHOOL$80,000
INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES$80,000
BOSTON COLLEGE$25,000
INTL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM$20,000
INTERNATIONAL CTR FOR JOURNALISTS$20,000
BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION$15,000
THE CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION$15,000
CARNEGIE HALL$12,000
JFK CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$10,000
MERCY FOR ANIMALS$10,000
CLINTON FOUNDATION$10,000
THE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$10,000
RALEIGH LITTLE THEATER$6,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%THE HOPE CENTER: $3k → 18%BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $3k → 11%BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK: $10k → 14%INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $2k → 8%INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $2k → 8%INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $2k → 8%INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $2k → 8%THE ARTHUR PROJECT: $1k → 17%INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $2k → 8%THE ARTHUR PROJECT: $1k → 17%STEP UP MINISTRY: $2k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $2k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $2k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $2k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $2k → 8%GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $2k → 8%THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $2k → 8%THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $2k → 8%GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $2k → 8%THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $2k → 8%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

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
DE
AR
NC
SC
DC
GA
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 55 repeat orgs$113k to everyone else

55 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
23

Total granted

$1.9M
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+15%

Still filing today

60%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $116k · revenue +50%
  • UO
    University of Miami
    4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +48%
  • MF
    MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • CF
    COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -2%
  • SB
    SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +36%
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB JOURNALISM INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +395%
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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

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

—
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
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
5
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
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
8
Ie New York College

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Education
9
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
10
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
11
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.

—
12
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Repair the World; the most unlike its peers is Nueva Generacion. 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

50 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. 50 of the 82 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
28/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NY LAW SCHOOL: $365,000 · OtherNY LAW SCHOOLFORDHAM UNI SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SERVIC: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherJFK CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $30,000 · Other+46 more: $417,850 · Other+46 moreINSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: $459,000 · InternationalINSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIESTHE INT'L CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS INC: $45,000 · InternationalTHE INT'L CENTER FOR JOURNAL…MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $20,000 · InternationalTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $116,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTO…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $110,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE U…University of Miami: $60,000 · EducationUniversity of Mia…Saint Augustine's University: $14,800 · Education+4 more: $30,000 · Education+4 moreINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $50,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATI…THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $36,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNE…RALEIGH LITTLE THEATRE INC: $30,110 · Arts & CultureRALEIGH L…The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $17,000 · Arts & CultureThe Metro…NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $16,500 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAR…St Anthony 1907 Foundation: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSt Anthon…ARTSCONNECTION INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureBEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesSASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSTEPUP MINISTRY: $10,000 · Human ServicesINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $10,000 · Human Services+3 more: $7,000 · Human ServicesMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $45,000 · AnimalsJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $10,000 · AnimalsTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $12,500 · HealthBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthEVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $9,000 · HealthCOOKIES FOR KIDS CANCER A NEW JERSEY NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $3,000 · Health
Other$892,850International$524,000Education$330,800Arts & Culture$167,610Human Services$82,000Animals$55,000Health$34,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: $459,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $116,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $110,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INT'L CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN INC: $35,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetRALEIGH LITTLE THEATRE INC: $30,110 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Center for Human Rights: $22,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $17,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $16,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEAD INTERGENERATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $16,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetSaint Augustine's University: $14,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Arts Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPHERD'S TABLE SOUP KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB JOURNALISM INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPUP MINISTRY: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARTSCONNECTION INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERACT INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWomenNC-NC Committee for CSW-CEDAW: $6,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetNAMI WAKE COUNTY: $6,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOKIES FOR KIDS CANCER A NEW JERSEY NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLYNN SAGE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREPAIR THE WORLD: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNUEVA GENERACION: $2,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetThe Hope Center Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ARTHUR PROJECT: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRALEIGH HOUSING FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVOLUNTEER LEGAL ADVOCATES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE INT'L CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds RALEIGH LITTLE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Southern Center for Human Rights ↗
  • Who funds MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEAD INTERGENERATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds Saint Augustine's University ↗
  • Who funds South Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD'S TABLE SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB JOURNALISM INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗

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.

Triangle Community Fo…Bell Koonce Burnette …Greater Washington Co…North Carolina Commun…Duke Energy FoundationBailey Endowment IncW Trent Ragland Jr Fo…John William Pope Fou…Credit Suisse America…Gates FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Ayco Charitable F…
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC20.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Bailey Endowment Inc · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · Credit Suisse Americas Foundation · Gates Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable 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 Warner Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Warner Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
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How do I get to Warner Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Warner Fund 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 82 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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