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Ahavas Avraham Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
286
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$6.0MHuman Services$1.9MEducation$1.3MPhilanthropy$283kCommunity Improvement$229kInternational$197kHealth$190kArts & Culture$104kOther$0
02FY2024 · 286 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k208 grants · $439k
  • $10k–50k72 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$2,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH$500,000
YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH$500,000
YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH$100,000
YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH$50,000
YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH$50,000
V'BO$50,000
FRIENDS OF SOUTHFIELD POLICE$45,500
CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH$45,000
CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH$45,000
CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH$45,000
CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH$45,000
CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH$45,000
CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH$45,000
CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH$45,000
CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH$36,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISRAEL SELECT CHARITY FUND: $500 → 13%YAD CHAYA: $360 → 13%BASBLUE: $50k → 21%CORE: $5k → 14%THE DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $5k → 6%ZICHRON MATTEL: $5k → 11%RENEWAL OF LIFE: $5k → 20%ATIME: $2k → 20%ATIME: $1k → 20%AHAVAT YISROEL HUMONITY: $10k → 20%CHEDVAS HATORAH: $1k → 20%DETROIT CHESED PROJECT: $100 → 8%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

MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 146 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

146 repeat relationships: 63 still active in FY2024, 83 since wound down; 117 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

146
349

Total granted

$7.2M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+19%

Still filing today

29%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $701k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • VB
    V'HECHZAKTA BO
    2× · 2022–2023 · $265k · revenue +15%
  • AO
    ALUMNI OF THE RABBINICAL COLLEGE KNESSETH ISRAEL OF SLABODKA KOWNA
    2× · 2021–2023 · $43k · revenue +50%
  • P
    PELOTONIA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • MW
    MIRIAM'S WELL - BE'ER MIRIAM
    one grant, 2022 · $145k · revenue -46% · 33% of their budget
  • FO
    FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • SO
    SON OF DAVID MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2022 · $60k
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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
3
University of Judaism Foundation
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4
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

—
5
Sherit Isroel
—
6
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
7
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
8
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
9
Kollel Nefesh Hachaim Inc
Education
10
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
11
Ohr Olam Corp

publish religious books

Religion
12
American Friends of Yeshivat Nachalat Yossef

The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva Gedola Amudei Ohr Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kln Foundation. 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

135 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. 135 of the 615 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
124/135
Grantees still filing
84/135
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YESHIVATH BETH YEHUDAH: $2,890,713 · OtherYESHIVATH BETH YEHUDAHTORAS CHAIM: $871,493 · OtherTORAS CHAIMV'HECHZAKTA BO: $265,000 · Other+151 more: $3,625,249 · Other+151 moreTHE CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH: $540,331 · ReligionTHE CENTER F…MIRIAM'S WELL - BE'ER MIRIAM: $145,000 · ReligionMIRIAM'S WEL…THE AFIKIM FOUNDATION: $131,000 · ReligionTHE AFIKIM F…MINCHAS ASHER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OSEH CHAYIL: $48,000 · ReligionYESHIVA GEDOLA AMUDEI OHR INC: $40,000 · Religion+5 more: $105,900 · Religion+5 morePELOTONIA: $40,000 · EducationHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT: $38,000 · EducationTORAH ORE SEMINARY: $33,000 · EducationYeshiva Tiferes Yisroel: $33,000 · EducationNACHLAS BAIS YAAKOV: $30,000 · EducationMEOR INC: $26,000 · EducationOholei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch: $25,000 · EducationBARRY UNIVERSITY INC: $16,290 · EducationTHE DESTINY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationORLANDO TORAH ACADEMY INC: $15,000 · EducationMESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $15,000 · EducationWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $12,500 · Education+3 more: $30,000 · EducationJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $52,948 · PhilanthropyDONORS FUND INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF AHAVATH SHALOM INC: $18,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEFESH DOVID INC: $11,800 · PhilanthropyCHASDEI DAVID INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyKLN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LUBAVITCH: $28,000 · InternationalKav LNoar Foundation: $25,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $22,500 · InternationalSHIR BAMIDBAR INC: $21,100 · InternationalNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $12,500 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel: $10,500 · InternationalJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $10,000 · InternationalBASBLUE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesAHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureARTIST ADVOCACY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$7,652,455Religion$1,060,231Education$328,790Philanthropy$162,748International$129,600Human Services$60,000Arts & Culture$45,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTHE CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH: $540,331 over 3y, 87% of budgetV'HECHZAKTA BO: $265,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMIRIAM'S WELL - BE'ER MIRIAM: $145,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetTHE AFIKIM FOUNDATION: $131,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetDETROIT RESOURCE CENTER: $96,900 over 4y, 34% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $52,948 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYAD YISROEL: $50,180 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBASBLUE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMINCHAS ASHER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDONORS FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OSEH CHAYIL: $48,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetPELOTONIA: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA GEDOLA AMUDEI OHR INC: $40,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT: $38,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $37,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTORAH ORE SEMINARY: $33,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYeshiva Tiferes Yisroel: $33,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMATAN BSETER: $31,440 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetNACHLAS BAIS YAAKOV: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LUBAVITCH: $28,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMEOR INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKav LNoar Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetOholei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $24,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHIR BAMIDBAR INC: $21,100 over 3y, 56% of budgetHATZALAH OF MICHIGAN: $20,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetYAD EZRA: $18,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF AHAVATH SHALOM INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBARRY UNIVERSITY INC: $16,290 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $15,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SUNDERLAND KOLLEL LTD: $15,400 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DESTINY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetORLANDO TORAH ACADEMY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEFESH DOVID INC: $11,800 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERKAZ HATORAH COMMUNITY KOLLEL: $11,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHASDEI DAVID INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKLN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% 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.

  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH ↗
  • Who funds V'HECHZAKTA BO ↗
  • Who funds MIRIAM'S WELL - BE'ER MIRIAM ↗
  • Who funds THE AFIKIM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds YAD YISROEL ↗
  • Who funds BASBLUE INC ↗
  • Who funds MINCHAS ASHER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DONORS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OSEH CHAYIL ↗
  • Who funds ALUMNI OF THE RABBINICAL COLLEGE KNESSETH ISRAEL OF SLABODKA KOWNA ↗
  • Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA GEDOLA AMUDEI OHR INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds LIMUDEI DA'AS INC ↗

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.

The Jmg FoundationNational Society for …The Ojc FundJack Adjmi Family Fou…Associated Jewish Cha…Community Foundation …The Sorala FoundationThe Zev and Susan Mun…Jewish Communal FundUnited Jewish Foundat…The Meer Family Found…Zichron Chaim Charity…
The Jmg FoundationNJ68.2× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jmg Foundation · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · The Ojc Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Sorala Foundation · The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · United Jewish Foundation · The Meer Family Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Cheder Toras Zev: 22% of income from government
  • Bais Yaakov of Boston Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Nachlas Bais Yaakov: 2% of income from government
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University: 2% of income from government
  • Willamette University: 1% of income from government
  • Heichal Hatorah: 1% of income from government
  • Mesorah Heritage Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Barry University Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Yeshiva of Greater Washington Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get 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
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 Ahavas Avraham 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 615 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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