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Warrior Mensch 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.

$3.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.9MReligion$1.5MHealth$853kPhilanthropy$553kArts & Culture$379kInternational$219kYouth Development$218kCrime & Legal$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $797k
  • $250k+3 grants · $3.0M
$100,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP$1,045,671
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION$1,000,016
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$1,000,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$210,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION$122,000
CHABAD AT DARTMOUTH$118,000
THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP$100,000
UJA FEDERATION$100,000
RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL$75,000
UJA FEDERATION$72,000
JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$25,000
PAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION$15,000
JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK$10,000
JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK$10,000
PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE - HANUKKAH ON BROADWAY$3,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $25k → 17%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $10k → 20%GOODFOUNDATION: $15k → 17%JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $10k → 20%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $3k → 17%ANSWER THE CALL: $15k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $1.0M → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $127k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $100k → 17%teak fellowship: $100k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $100k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $100k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $25k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $25k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $10k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $3k → 17%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

NH
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
KS
AR
NC
DC
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.7M · 31 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
62

Total granted

$7.7M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+29%

Still filing today

84%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalHealthOther
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

  • TT
    THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +85%
  • EC
    ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.0M · revenue +35%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $570k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • BC
    BASSER CENTER FOR BRCA
    one grant, 2024 · $500k
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $260k · revenue +4%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $164k
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.

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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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5
Manhattanville University

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

Education
6
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
7
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
8
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

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11
The Economic Club of New York

The economic club of new york is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonpolitical organization dedicated to the promotion of the study and discussion of social, economic and political questions. for more than a century, the club has served as the…

Social Science
12
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robin Hood Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Open Mind Project. 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

66 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. 66 of the 99 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)
66/66
Grantees still filing
45/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,329,926 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $1,041,915 · EducationETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOLDUKE UNIVERSITY: $570,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $260,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $200,000 · Education+8 more: $446,300 · Education+8 morePARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INC: $1,406,590 · OtherPARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INCBASSER CENTER FOR BRCA: $500,000 · OtherBASSER CENTER FOR BRCAIndividual grant recipient: $163,963 · OtherUniversity of Michigan: $163,000 · OtherNATL SEPT 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM AT THE WORLD TRADE CTR: $150,000 · OtherCHABAD AT DARTMOUTH: $118,000 · Other+55 more: $818,094 · Other+55 moreROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $1,232,016 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDA…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $400,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APP…STUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC: $180,000 · PhilanthropySTUDENT LEADERSHI…+2 more: $35,000 · PhilanthropyTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $1,659,756 · Human ServicesTHE TEAK FELLOWS…+5 more: $83,000 · Human ServicesHIAS INC: $118,000 · InternationalSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $85,000 · International+4 more: $15,360 · InternationalTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $125,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureOPEN MIND PROJECT: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $17,500 · Arts & CultureARTSCONNECTION INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureCRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$4,848,141Other$3,319,647Philanthropy$1,847,016Human Services$1,742,756International$218,360Arts & Culture$199,000Crime & Legal$100,000

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,329,926 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $1,659,756 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $1,232,016 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $1,041,915 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $570,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $400,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $260,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSTUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC: $180,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $163,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $126,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe School for Ethics and Global Leadership: $125,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $125,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHIAS INC: $118,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $85,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER NY & CT INC: $65,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetTHE REFORM ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetASPHALT GREEN INC: $47,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Ideal School of Manhattan: $31,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NEW YORK CITY AND WESTCHERSTER COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH IMPROVING NON-PROFITS FOR CHILDREN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRONX LACROSSE INC CO OTA: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetJEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI CHILDREN'S CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBRONX BASEBALL DREAMS INC: $19,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC: $16,800 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetARTSCONNECTION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINFINITE FAMILY: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Gray FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Bessemer Giving F…Pinkerton FoundationThe Warburg Pincus Fo…The Tapestry Foundati…
Jewish Communal FundNY23.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Gray Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Pinkerton Foundation · The Warburg Pincus Foundation · The Tapestry Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Warrior Mensch Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Warrior Mensch 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 99 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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