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Af Best Securities Foundation Inc

To provide support to established children's charities that are predominantly medical and social in nature.

$99k
Granted FY2018
12
Grants FY2018
5
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$55kRecreation & Sports$33kPhilanthropy$32kReligion$23kHuman Services$16kFood & Nutrition$13kHealth$8kInternational$8k
02FY2018 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k10 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $62k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$63k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY$40,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC$21,500
THE TIKVA CHILDREN'S HOME$9,600
BOCA HELPING HANDS$6,500
MACCABI USA$5,000
REILLY FOUNDATION INC - KRUEL CLASSIC$5,000
NEW HORIZON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$3,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISBALED$2,500
DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC$2,500
HELPING ISRAEL FUND INC$2,000
GLOBAL PARTNERS FOR DEVELOPMENT$500
MAKE-A-WISH SOUTHERN FLORIDA$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ONE SUMMIT INC: $5k → 10%MACCABI USA: $15k → 22%GLOBAL PARTNERS FOR DEVELOPMENT: $500 → 9%HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY: $40k → 17%HELPING ISRAEL FUND INC: $2k → 11%MAKE-A-WISH SOUTHERN FLORIDA: $500 → 13%GREENWICH JEWISH STUDY GROUP: $20k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISBALED: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%CAVES VALLEY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%MACCABI USA: $5k → 22%THE TIKVA CHILDREN'S HOME: $10k → 17%HOPE FOR CHILDREN - THE PROMISE FOR HAITI: $5k → 11%NEW HORIZON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 13%THE TIKVA CHILDREN'S HOME: $7k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $22k → 11%REILLY FOUNDATION INC - KRUEL CLASSIC: $5k → 13%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $10k → 11%REILLY FOUNDATION INC - KRUEL CLASSIC: $5k → 13%BOCA HELPING HANDS: $7k → 11%DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 13%BOCA HELPING HANDS: $7k → 11%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

VT
IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
MD
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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$59k · 4 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$59k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+35%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
EducationHealthInternationalRecreation & SportsReligionFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MU
    MACCABI USA INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue -63%
  • TC
    TIKVA CORP
    2× · 2017–2018 · $16k · revenue +51%
  • BH
    BOCA HELPING HANDS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $13k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • TG
    The Greenwich Jewish Study Group Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -99%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +35%
  • OS
    One Summit Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +92%
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
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Sherit Isroel
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3
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

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4
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Jewish Life Foundation
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6
Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc
Youth Development
7
The Keren Rachaim Fund
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8
Korman Feldman Family Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Feldman Family Foundation
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10
Feldman Family Foundation
Philanthropy
11
The Chasdei Shimon Foundation
Religion
12
Bais Yisrael Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Greenwich Jewish Study Group Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 17 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIES CHARTER SCHOOLS: $40,000 · EducationHARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIES CHARTER SCHOOLSTIKVA CORP: $16,200 · EducationTIKVA CORPUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURA…CAVES VALLEY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationCAVES VALLEY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INCJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $31,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION O…MACCABI USA INC: $20,200 · Recreation & SportsMACCABI USA INCTHE REILLY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE REILLY FOUNDAT…The Greenwich Jewish Study Group Inc: $20,000 · OtherThe Greenwich Je…NEW HORIZON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3,000 · OtherNEW HORIZON UNIT…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED: $2,500 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS…Helping Israel Fund: $2,000 · OtherHelping Israel F…+1 more: $500 · OtherBOCA HELPING HANDS INC: $13,000 · Food & NutritionOne Summit Inc: $5,000 · HealthDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $500 · HealthHOPE FOR CHILDREN PROMISE FOR HAITI: $5,000 · Youth Development
Education$71,200Philanthropy$31,500Recreation & Sports$30,200Other$28,000Food & Nutrition$13,000Health$8,000Youth Development$5,000

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $31,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $20,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTIKVA CORP: $16,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOCA HELPING HANDS INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE REILLY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOne Summit Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCAVES VALLEY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHOPE FOR CHILDREN PROMISE FOR HAITI: $5,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHelping Israel Fund: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGlobal Partners For Development: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Af Best Securities Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Af Best Securities Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    12get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    Find your warmest path to Af Best Securities Foundation 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 17 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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