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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.

$553k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$329k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$1.8MReligion$931kHealth$521kPhilanthropy$210kFood & Nutrition$39kHuman Services$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $224k
  • $250k+1 grant · $329k
$166,568
Median grant
1
States reached
$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHALVA HIGH SCHOOL$328,850
VARIOUS CHARITIES$166,568
THE DONORS FUND$57,752
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%RELIEF RESOURCES: $11k → 20%RELIEF RESOURCES: $3k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $3k → 20%BIKUR CHOLIM OF LAKEWOOD INC: $49k → 11%MACZIKEI YISROEL INC: $39k → 11%BIKUR CHOLIM OF LAKEWOOD INC: $31k → 11%AHAVAS TZEDAKAH: $22k → 11%BIKUR CHOLIM OF LAKEWOOD INC: $21k → 11%BIKUR CHOLIM OF LAKEWOOD INC: $11k → 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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.7M · 15 repeat orgs$650k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +110% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
18

Total granted

$7.7M
$650k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+110%
+3%

Still filing today

53%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SH
    SHALVA HIGH SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +110% · 45% of their budget
  • BC
    BIKUR CHOLIM OF LAKEWOOD INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $111k · revenue +38%
  • TT
    TOMCHEI TORAH B'ERETZ YISRAEL INC TOMCHEI TORAH B'ERET
    4× · 2019–2022 · $93k · revenue +182%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $141k
  • OD
    OHR DEVORA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $83k
  • KO
    KEREN ORAH
    one grant, 2020 · $62k
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
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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2
Yeshivas Toras Zev Inc

The purpose of this organization is to support indigent torah scholars and their families by providing stipends and additional funds at jewish holiday times.

Religion
3
Ohr Olam Corp

publish religious books

Religion
4
Mifal Tzedaka Vchesed Chasdei Aharo N Inc

Provide financial assistance to torah and talmudic scholars, as well as to other needy individuals and other organizations that work to promote these purposes.

Philanthropy
5
Zera Koidesh Inc

To award financial grants to religios orthodox jewish organizations and to help by financial means, the needy, sick and disabled people.

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6
Mchon Kisvei R Elya Boruch Inc

To publish and disseminate the torah lectures of rabbi elya boruch finkel of blessed memory.

Religion
7
Chasdei Yetev Lev Inc

Provide financial assistance to needy individuals, and to religious, educational, and charitable organizations in us and abroad.

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8
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
9
Ateres Zekainim Inc

Charitable contributions and interest free loans to indigent torah scholars

Philanthropy
10
Rashbi Tehillim Incorporated
Religion
11
Toras Chaim Development Company Inc

Provide a building for a religious school.

Education
12
Zichron Meshilem Feish Inc

Provides finacial assistance to needy individuals and to religious, charitable organizations

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Torah Education of America Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 34 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS CHARITIES: $4,717,737 · OtherVARIOUS CHARITIESKROVEI LEV INC: $255,753 · Other+19 more: $769,072 · Other+19 moreSHALVA HIGH SCHOOL INC: $1,771,126 · EducationSHALVA HIGH SCHOOL INC+1 more: $50,000 · EducationGENERATIONS FOR LIFE INC: $364,971 · HealthKANFEI FAIGA INC: $27,973 · HealthDONORS FUND INC: $209,550 · PhilanthropyTOMCHEI TORAH B'ERETZ YISRAEL INC TOMCHEI TORAH B'ERET: $92,500 · PhilanthropyBIKUR CHOLIM OF LAKEWOOD INC: $110,900 · Human ServicesMACHZIKEI YISROEL INC: $39,072 · Human ServicesAHAVAS TZEDAKA INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesRELIEF RESOURCES INC: $13,900 · Human Services+1 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesTZUR FOUNDATION INC: $65,695 · ReligionUNITE PROGRAMS: $25,000 · Religion
Other$5,742,562Education$1,821,126Health$392,944Philanthropy$302,050Human Services$188,872Religion$90,695

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHALVA HIGH SCHOOL INC: $1,771,126 over 6y, 45% of budgetGENERATIONS FOR LIFE INC: $364,971 over 5y, 39% of budgetDONORS FUND INC: $209,550 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM OF LAKEWOOD INC: $110,900 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTOMCHEI TORAH B'ERETZ YISRAEL INC TOMCHEI TORAH B'ERET: $92,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTZUR FOUNDATION INC: $65,695 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTORAH EDUCATION OF AMERICA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMACHZIKEI YISROEL INC: $39,072 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetKANFEI FAIGA INC: $27,973 over 2y, 35% of budgetUNITE PROGRAMS: $25,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetAHAVAS TZEDAKA INC: $22,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRELIEF RESOURCES INC: $13,900 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $3,000 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 Ojc FundJewish Communal FundDonors Fund IncJack Adjmi Family Fou…Senior Community Serv…Jacob and Malka Fisch…Zichron Btz Tzedakah …Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
The Ojc FundNY23.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Kanfei Faiga Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Torah Education of America Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get 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 · 0–10%
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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How do I get to Alex Gross Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Alex Gross 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 34 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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