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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 26-3355557

Harold Plotnek Charitable Foundatio

A private foundation in Miami, FL. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 9 grants and $27,500 paid in grants.

Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.
  • Tax year 2025

    $27,500

    Grants listed
    9
    Assets, end of year
    $493,307
  • Tax year 2024

    $26,300

    Grants listed
    8
    Assets, end of year
    $474,067
  • Tax year 2023

    $15,000

    Grants listed
    4
    Assets, end of year
    $467,351
  • Tax year 2022

    $12,000

    Grants listed
    6
    Assets, end of year
    $460,152
  • Tax year 2021

    $55,750

    Grants listed
    8
    Assets, end of year
    $446,452
  • Tax year 2020

    $34,379

    Grants listed
    10
    Assets, end of year
    $466,940
  • Tax year 2019

    $42,250

    Grants listed
    14
    Assets, end of year
    $484,675
  • Tax year 2018

    $34,942

    Grants listed
    14
    Assets, end of year
    $503,857

Grants paid in 2025

9 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Friends of the Bass IncMiami Beach, FL

    Charitable contribution

    $10,000
  2. Garden of RemembranceClarksburg, MD

    Charitable contribution

    $7,500
  3. Greater Miami Jewish FederationMiami, FL

    Charitable contribution

    $2,500
  4. Tulane UniversityNew Orleans, LA

    Charitable contribution

    $2,500
  5. Alzheimer's Drug Discovery FoundatiNew York, NY

    Charitable contribution

    $1,000
  6. Charles E Smith Life CommunitiesRockville, MD

    Charitable contribution

    $1,000
  7. Health in the Hood IncMiami, FL

    Charitable contribution

    $1,000
  8. Insight Through Education IncPB Gardens, FL

    Charitable contribution

    $1,000
  9. Montgomery Hospice IncRockville, MD

    Charitable contribution

    $1,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Education1 grant $2,50036% of the total
  2. Philanthropy and grantmaking1 grant $2,50036% of the total
  3. Human services2 grants $2,00029% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Florida4 grants $14,500
  2. Maryland3 grants $9,500
  3. Louisiana1 grant $2,500
  4. New York1 grant $1,000

Officers, directors and trustees

4 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Avril PlotnekPRES/DIR Hours 0Pay $0
  • David PlotnekVP/DIR Hours 0Pay $0
  • Bernice KaufmanVP/DIR Hours 0Pay $0
  • Jay KaufmanVP/DIR/S/T Hours 10Pay $0

The return

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