· Private foundation
Alex Gross Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k2 grants · $224k
- $250k+1 grant · $329k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHALVA HIGH SCHOOL | $328,850 |
| VARIOUS CHARITIES | $166,568 |
| THE DONORS FUND | $57,752 |
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 (FY19–22, $189k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +110% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SHSHALVA HIGH SCHOOL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +110% · 45% of their budget
- BCBIKUR CHOLIM OF LAKEWOOD INC4× · 2019–2022 · $111k · revenue +38%
- TTTOMCHEI TORAH B'ERETZ YISRAEL INC TOMCHEI TORAH B'ERET4× · 2019–2022 · $93k · revenue +182%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $141k
- ODOHR DEVORA INCone grant, 2022 · $83k
- KOKEREN ORAHone grant, 2020 · $62k
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.
Religious Teaching
The purpose of this organization is to support indigent torah scholars and their families by providing stipends and additional funds at jewish holiday times.
publish religious books
Provide financial assistance to torah and talmudic scholars, as well as to other needy individuals and other organizations that work to promote these purposes.
To award financial grants to religios orthodox jewish organizations and to help by financial means, the needy, sick and disabled people.
To publish and disseminate the torah lectures of rabbi elya boruch finkel of blessed memory.
Provide financial assistance to needy individuals, and to religious, educational, and charitable organizations in us and abroad.
Charitable contributions and interest free loans to indigent torah scholars
Provide a building for a religious school.
Provides finacial assistance to needy individuals and to religious, charitable organizations
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Torah Education of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Unite Programs. 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 14 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
13 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. 13 of the 34 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 SHALVA HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATIONS FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds DONORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM OF LAKEWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds TOMCHEI TORAH B'ERETZ YISRAEL INC TOMCHEI TORAH B'ERET ↗
- Who funds TZUR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TORAH EDUCATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MACHZIKEI YISROEL INC ↗
- Who funds KANFEI FAIGA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITE PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds AHAVAS TZEDAKA INC ↗
- Who funds RELIEF RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Bonei Olam 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 · Donors Fund Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Senior Community Services Inc · Jacob and Malka Fischer Foundation · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Alex Gross Foundation 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.
- Kanfei Faiga Inc — 4% of income from government
- Torah Education of America Inc — 1% of income from government
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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