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Alfred G & Ida Mendelson Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Alfred G & Ida Mendelson Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$21k
Granted FY2019
7
Grants FY2019
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2019.

Human Services$39kReligion$16kHealth$7kPhilanthropy$6kRecreation & Sports$3kArts & Culture$3kEducation$1k
02FY2019 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k6 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$136k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES$15,000
LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE$3,000
CAPITAL CAMPS & RETREAT CENTER$1,155
SHARE & CARE COCKAYNE SYNDROME NETWORK$500
BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON$500
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH$500
PARKINSON FOUNDATION$200
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 (FY17–19, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $15k → 8%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $13k → 8%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $11k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $500 → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $500 → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $500 → 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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$64k · 7 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
2

Total granted

$64k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+25%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • JF
    JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $38k · revenue +148%
  • JC
    JEWISH CAMP AND CONFERENCE SERVICE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +10%
  • JS
    JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museumgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +25%
  • AF
    ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2017 · $500
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
Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston

To advance the aspirations of families and individuals to enrich their lives, bodies and spirits, by providing the best in contemporary programs and experiences, informed by jewish values for today's jews and the people in their lives.

Human Services
2
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
3
Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc

The jewish federation of greater atlanta cares for, connects and strengthens our jewish community throughout greater atlanta, israel and the world.

Philanthropy
4
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation

To provide with compassion and dedication superior quality health care and rehabilitation for adults and to directly or indirectly coordinate arrangements and provision for comprehensive health care and social support services to frail…

Health
6
Tucson Jewish Community Center Inc

The mission of the tucson jewish community center (tucson j) is to cultivate and enrich jewish identity, ensure jewish continuity, foster wellness, and broaden communal harmony. the vision is to strive to be an outstanding jewish community…

Human Services
7
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
8
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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9
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
10
Council for Jewish Elderly

The mission of cje seniorlife is to enhance quality of life and facilitate independence of older adults. cje seniorlife values statement at cje seniorlife, we fulfill our mission and realize our vision for and on behalf of our clients, our…

Human Services
11
Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta Inc

To foster and ensure a vibrant greater Atlanta Jewish community by providing programs and services of distinction that attract, involve, and inspire meaningful connections and promote Jewish values.

Human Services
12
The Jerusalem Connection
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Social Service Agency; the most unlike its peers is Share and Care Cockayne Syndrome Network 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

11 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. 11 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC: $38,100 · Human ServicesJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC+2 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesADAS ISRAEL HEBREW CONGREGATION: $15,000 · OtherADAS ISRAEL HEBREW CONGREGAT…JEWISH CAMP AND CONFERENCE SERVICE INC: $3,173 · OtherJEWISH CAMP AND CONFERENCE S…+1 more: $500 · OtherLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 · HealthLUPUS RESE…SHARE AND CARE COCKAYNE SYNDROME NETWORK INC: $1,000 · HealthSHARE AND …NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $500 · HealthNATIONAL J…+1 more: $200 · HealthTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $6,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWIS…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,500 · Arts & CultureFIRST BOOK: $1,200 · Education
Human Services$39,600Other$18,673Health$6,700Philanthropy$6,000Arts & Culture$2,500Education$1,200

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 budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC: $38,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH CAMP AND CONFERENCE SERVICE INC: $3,173 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST BOOK: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE AND CARE COCKAYNE SYNDROME NETWORK INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $200 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.

The Robert P and Arle…The Morningstar Phila…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family FoundationVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Alfred G & Ida Mendelson Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alfred G & Ida Mendelson Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Bender Jcc of Greater Washington: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 13 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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