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American Committee for the Education and Welfare of Jews

The mission is to benefit an indefinite class of individuals who are either poor, distressed,and under privileged or come from broken homes.the organizaton activities include: financing the organization and operation of educational and religious projects in needy communities by subsidizing their capital and operating budgets,providing…

$1.4M
Granted FY2023
17
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$676k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE EDUCATION AND WELFARE OF JEWS’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2023 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $136k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $548k
  • $250k+1 grant · $676k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$309k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YAD YISROEL$675,901
WHITE FORREST JEWISH COMMUNITIES$200,000
TIKVA$102,500
BEIS AHARON V'YISRAEL$62,121
VAAD HATZOLAS NIDCHEI YISROEL$61,900
CHAMAH INTERNATIONAL$61,300
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THORAJT CHAIM$60,000
MITZVA FOR UKRAINE$33,240
OPEN CURTAIN$25,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MESHI$20,000
KNESST SIMCHA$20,000
SPARKS OF DAAS INC$17,670
CONGREGATION OHR CHAIM$10,000
VLNY OF BMBY$10,000
RAJE-USA INC$9,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RAJE-USA INC: $9k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.8M · 7 repeat orgs$618k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$3.8M
$185k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+24%

Still filing today

71%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $434k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’21’23
InternationalEducationReligionPublic BenefitPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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

  • YY
    YAD YISROEL
    6× · 2017–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +15%
  • TC
    TIKVA CORP
    6× · 2017–2023 · $986k · revenue +51%
  • VL
    VAAD L 'HATZOLAS NIDCHEI YISROEL INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $360k · revenue +24% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • FO
    FUND OF RUSSIAN SPEAKING JEWS INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $101k
  • CO
    CONGREGATION ORACH CHAIM
    one grant, 2021 · $60k
  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    2× · 2019–2020 · $18k · revenue +24%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
2
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Friends of Kishinev Jewry

To provide religious Jewish education to Kishinev Jewry

Religion
4
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
5
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
6
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
7
Jewish Center of Ulyanovsk Inc

To aid the poor and beedy with food, clothing abd spiritual gudiance

Religion
8
Friends of Kharkov Jewish Community Inc

To facilitate and provide support for Jewish religious, educational, as well as charitable activities in Kharkov, Ukraine, for its Jewish community and for its refugees.

International
9
University of Judaism Foundation
10
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
11
American Friends of Beit Yaakov Ko Tomar

Promotion of orthodox jewish education.

Philanthropy
12
American Friends of Tiferet David- Ostrova Inc

American friends of Tiferet David-Ostrova Biale's purpose is to support the charitable and communal efforts of the Ostrova Biala Rebbed Avidshlit'a in Israel and in the United States.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of the Kiev Jewish Community and the most unlike its peers is Sparks of Daas Inc. 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 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr15%5%5–10yr21%15%10–20yr20%55%20–35yr12%10%35–55yr10%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr21%3%10–20yr20%89%20–35yr12%7%35–55yr10%1%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund close more than the field 14% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
14%
3/22
the rest of the field
12%
7,400/60,712

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.

04the grantee network

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 22 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YAD YISROEL — $1,858,085 · OtherYAD YISROELOPERATION OPEN CURTAIN - GEMILAS CHESED FOR RUSSIAN JEWS — $231,665 · OtherOPERATION OPEN CURTAIN - GEMILAS CHESED FOR RUSSIAN JEWSJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MOSCOW — $200,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MOSCOWFUND OF RUSSIAN SPEAKING JEWS INC — $100,971 · Other+7 more — $174,363 · Other+7 moreTIKVA CORP — $986,150 · EducationTIKVA CORPSPARKS OF DAAS INC — $40,470 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THORAT CHAJM INC — $218,000 · InternationalAMERICAN F…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE KIEV JEWISH COMMUNITY — $138,517 · InternationalAMERICAN F…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANATEVKA INC — $33,240 · InternationalAMERICAN F…The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $17,500 · InternationalVAAD L 'HATZOLAS NIDCHEI YISROEL INC — $360,454 · ReligionVAAD L 'H…+1 more — $8,150 · ReligionBeis Aharon VYisroel Inc DBA American Friends of Here Next Year — $62,121 · Public BenefitAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MESHI INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyRAJE-USA INC — $9,000 · Human Services
Other$2,565,084Education$1,026,620International$407,257Religion$368,604Public Benefit$62,121Philanthropy$20,000Human Services$9,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYAD YISROEL — $1,858,085 over 6y, 22% of budgetTIKVA CORP — $986,150 over 6y, 14% of budgetVAAD L 'HATZOLAS NIDCHEI YISROEL INC — $360,454 over 6y, 28% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THORAT CHAJM INC — $218,000 over 6y, 23% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE KIEV JEWISH COMMUNITY — $138,517 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetBeis Aharon VYisroel Inc DBA American Friends of Here Next Year — $62,121 over 1y, 19% of budgetSPARKS OF DAAS INC — $40,470 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANATEVKA INC — $33,240 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MESHI INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAJE-USA INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA — $6,998 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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 · Alyad Foundation Inc · Agudath Israel of America · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Koum Family Foundation · Partners in Giving Inc · Morasha Olami Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 American Committee for the Education and Welfare of Jews 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to American Committee for the Education and Welfare of Jews?

    Find your warmest path to American Committee for the Education and Welfare of Jews 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.7M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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