· Public charity
Agudath Israel of Illinois
AGUDATH ISRAEL OF ILLINOIS seeks to inspire, educate, protect and provide financial relief for children and families of the orthodox jewish community within the chicagoland area
Read this first · the figures below need context
55% of Agudath Israel of Illinois’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Agudath Israel Of America Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Agudath Israel of Illinois named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $943k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $393k
- $250k+1 grant · $427k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TORAH PREP SCHOOL | $427,125 |
| H F EPSTEIN HEBREW ACADEMY | $142,916 |
| AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA | $130,000 |
| HENRY & LOUIS MERMELSTEIN CHARITAB | $120,000 |
| ESTHER MILLER BAIS YAAKOV | $38,250 |
| AREIVIM USA | $30,786 |
| MISSOURI TORAH INSTITUTE | $25,500 |
| AGUDAH CAMPS | $20,204 |
| AGUDAH BAIS HORAAH | $7,970 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $323k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 9 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CCCHICAGO CHESED FUND2× · 2020–2021 · $323k · revenue +21%
- CNCAMP NAGEELA MIDWEST INC3× · 2020–2022 · $107k · revenue +45%
- CMCHICAGO MEZUZAH AND MITZVAH CAMPAIGN2× · 2020–2021 · $98k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- CACONGREGATION AHAVAS TZDOKAH VCHESED INCone grant, 2021 · $175k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE KIEV JEWISH COMMUNITYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $160k · revenue +50%
- UMUNITED MOSDOS TORAH VEYIRAH YERUSHOLYIM INCone grant, 2021 · $115k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Support of religious schools in Israel
To further jewish education in israel
Yeshiva chayei olam inc., was established for the purpose of having an orthodox jewish high school. the school teaches talumdic studies, talmudic jurasprudence, orthodox jewish ethics and the old testament. in addition, the school provides…
Religious School
Religious Teaching
To operate a high school offering religious instruction and general studies as well as a post high school program of talmudic studies. the school shall be run under the standards of orthodox jewish law and tradition.
Provide college level education and extensive background of jewish law and talmudic studies and rabbinical ordination.
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Promoting education by providing financial assistance and support services to educational organizations worldwide; to promote the jewish religion and jewish education through provision of educational programs, assisting the creation of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vaad Harabbanim L'inyanei Tzeduka Inc and the most unlike its peers is Henry & Louise Mermelstein Charitable Foundation. 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 26 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
19 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. 19 of the 31 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TORAH CENTER-MIDWEST INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHESED FUND ↗
- Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE KIEV JEWISH COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds HENRY & LOUISE MERMELSTEIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP NAGEELA MIDWEST INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO MEZUZAH AND MITZVAH CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds BEER YITZHAK FOUNDATION INC co Ben Malakh ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MOSDOS NACHLAS SHIMON INC ↗
- Who funds ESTHER MILLER BAIS YAAKOV HIGH SCHOOL OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds VAAD HARABBANIM L'INYANEI TZEDUKA INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI TORAH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AGUDAH CAMPS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MESIVTA OF CLIFTON INC ↗
- Who funds KULANU YACHAD ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA DERECH HATORAH INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Daniel & Chayala Glenner Foundation · Dennis and Joyce Ruben Foundation · Fredman Family Charitable Trust · Jewish Federation of St Louis · Bitton Family Foundation Inc · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Greater Horizons
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 Agudath Israel of Illinois 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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