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Abr Family Foundation No 1

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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2023
61
Grants FY2023
11
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

78% of Abr Family Foundation No 1’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Cleveland, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Abr Family Foundation No 1 named its own grantees at scale: 48 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’18
2
’19
3
’20
1
’21
1
’22
48
’23
2
’24
1
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Religion$2.1MPhilanthropy$2.0MArts & Culture$928kHealth$495kEducation$80kAnimals$25kFood & Nutrition$18kPublic Benefit$15kOther$0
02FY2023 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k37 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $267k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $408k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$480k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARK SYNAGOGUE$500,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND$440,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$250,000
MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION$219,500
ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME MUSEUM INC$83,333
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND$55,000
CLEVELAND FOUNDATION$50,000
CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$25,000
HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND$25,000
KOL ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC$25,000
FIRST LADY'S CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$24,250
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$20,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND$20,000
BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER CLEVELAND$18,000
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$15,000
02The need
03

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 (FY23–23, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CO
VA
MD
DC
LA
TX

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 — 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 6 repeat orgs$484k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 51 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$3.3M
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+52%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalPhilanthropyReligionOther

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

  • TM
    The Musical Arts Association
    2× · 2023–2024 · $339k · revenue +3%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    3× · 2018–2020 · $250k · revenue +16%
  • VF
    VALUES-IN-ACTION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • DH
    Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museumgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +52%
  • LC
    LOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -20%

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.

1
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
4
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
5
The Laura and Alvin Siegal College of Judaic Studies Educational Foundation

To carry out the charitable, educational, and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland by promoting high quality jewish life-long learning opportunities regarding the study of judaism spiritually, historically, culturally,…

Education
6
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
7
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
8
JewishColumbus

Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.

Religion
9
Commission On Cemetery Preservation

Further the charitable, educational, and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland including the preservation of jewish cemeteries

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10
Madav Ix Foundation

Further the charitable, educational and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland (federation).

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11
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc

Yivo's mission is to study the thousand-year history of jewish life in eastern europe and russia in all its aspects: language, history, religion, folkways and material culture. yivo's archive and library preserves a significant collection…

Religion
12
Ostara

To further the charitable, educational and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland ("federation").

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Yavne Teachers College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr19%11%20–35yr15%33%35–55yr14%42%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr19%1%20–35yr15%10%35–55yr14%88%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/57
the rest of the field
12%
5,017/42,945

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 64 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
34/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PARK SYNAGOGUE — $2,000,000 · OtherPARK SYNAGOGUECLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $490,493 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME MUSEUM INC — $166,666 · OtherROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME MUSEUM INC+35 more — $187,486 · Other+35 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND — $1,767,165 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELANDTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $80,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $149,250 · Philanthropy+4 moreThe Musical Arts Association — $339,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Ar…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $250,000 · Arts & CultureThe United Sta…THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC — $83,334 · Arts & CultureTHE ROCK AND R…Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $50,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Holocau…+3 more — $3,300 · Arts & CultureCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC — $10,000 · EducationVALUES-IN-ACTION FOUNDATION — $9,600 · EducationSAM ELIMU CHARITY — $5,000 · EducationCUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Education+4 more — $3,500 · EducationCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $25,000 · AnimalsFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC — $20,000 · ReligionGROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL — $2,500 · ReligionGMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION) — $15,000 · Public Benefit
Other$2,844,645Philanthropy$1,996,415Arts & Culture$725,634Education$53,100Animals$25,000Religion$22,500Public Benefit$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND — $1,767,165 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association — $339,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $55,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKOL ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFirst Lady's Charitable Foundation — $24,250 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetJEWISHColorado — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION) — $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetJewish Learning Connection — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVALUES-IN-ACTION FOUNDATION — $9,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NEGEV FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS — $5,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAM ELIMU CHARITY — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCLEVELAND CHESED CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMENORAH PARK FOUNDATION — $4,764 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation — $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Carroll University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYavne Teachers College — $1,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetINDEPENDENT MONTEFIORE SHELTER HOME — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA CHAYEI OLAM — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELIE WIESEL FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHN HOUSING PARTNERS — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Albert B & Audrey…Jewish Federation of …The Cleveland Foundat…Marla & Joseph Shafra…Richard Horvitz and E…Jack Joseph & Morton …The Wuliger FoundationThe Horowitz Ratner F…Irving I Stone Founda…The Swagelok Foundati…The Leonard and Joan …The Kline Family Foun…
The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family FoundationOH63.9× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Cleveland Foundation · Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation · The Wuliger Foundation · The Horowitz Ratner Family Foundation · Irving I Stone Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The Leonard and Joan Horvitz Foundation · The Kline Family Foundation

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 organization Abr Family Foundation No 1 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Yeshiva Chayei Olam — 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Abr Family Foundation No 1?

Find your warmest path to Abr Family Foundation No 1 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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