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$8.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$884k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$2.8MHealth$86kInternational$39kPhilanthropy$10kEducation$7kHuman Services$5k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $1,134,043 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,330,729 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,196,686 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
  • $250k+1 grant · $884k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION ORACH CHAIM YOTSEI UKRAINE$884,214
CONGREGATION OHR YESHYA$110,000
CONG YESHIVAS MEOR HACHAIM$55,000
PROTEZ FOUNDATION$33,000
BIRKAS SHESH$11,800
FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES UKRAINE INC$10,000
CONG CHASDEI LEV$9,726
TORAH UMESORAH$5,190
CONGREGATION BETH DAVID$5,113
OZER DALIM OF LAKEWOOD INC$5,000
TELSHE YESHIVA-CHICAGO$5,000
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 (FY23–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%VAAD HATZEDAKA INC: $30k → 15%OZER DALIM OF LAKEWOOD INC: $5k → 11%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.

Grants abroad, by region — $7.2M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$7.2M · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: EDUCATION

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 5 repeat orgs$581k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
16

Total granted

$2.3M
$403k

Still filing today

0%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $178k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthEducationOther

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

  • CO
    CONGREGATION ORACH CHAIM YOTSEI UKRAINE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M
  • CY
    CONG YESHIVAS MEOR HACHAIM
    4× · 2022–2025 · $232k
  • PO
    PERSPECTIVES ON HOPE INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $53k

Funded once

  • YY
    YAD YISROEL
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • CR
    Congregation Rav Lehoshia Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue 0%
  • EU
    EAM USA LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -9%

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
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Jewish Center of Ulyanovsk Inc

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

Religion
3
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
4
Vaad Hapula Inc

Support jewry in Israel

Religion
5
Tsal Kaplun Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
6
Gemilas Chesed Kramer Inc
Philanthropy
7
Ny Afo Meomek Halev Inc

AFOMeomekHalevIncisformedforthereligiouscharitablepurposeofprovidingJewishministrytothespiritualandphysicalneedsofdisadvantagedJewishpersonsfamiliesandchildrenbetheylocatedintheNewYorkaroundtheUSinIsraelorelsewhere

Religion
8
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
9
Hayashar Vehatov Inc

The furtherance of primacy of orthodox jewish jurisprudence

Religion
10
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Chevra Usa

Chevra USA exists to provide humanitarian aid to Jewish people, many of whom are elderly and Holocaust survivors, in the former Soviet Union, primarily Ukraine, Moldova and Poland, and in Israel. We operate soup kitchens and distribute…

Human Services
12
Chabad Lubavitch of Prague

To provide unaffiliated Jews with information and the ability to learn about their heritage.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine Inc 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 21 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%22%<5yr15%19%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr19%37%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr12%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%12%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr19%77%20–35yr13%1%35–55yr12%1%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 22% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/29
the rest of the field
14%
11,498/83,541

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

11 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. 11 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONGREGATION ORACH CHAIM YOTSEI UKRAINE — $1,980,635 · OtherCONGREGATION ORACH CHAIM YOTSEI UKRAINECONG YESHIVAS MEOR HACHAIM — $232,000 · OtherCONG YESHIVAS MEOR HACHAIMCONGREGATION OHR YESHAYEH — $110,000 · OtherYAD YISROEL — $100,000 · Other+14 more — $224,663 · Other+14 moreCongregation Rav Lehoshia Inc — $60,000 · ReligionEAM USA LLC — $50,000 · ReligionKedem for the Kiev Jewish Community — $35,658 · ReligionFederation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine INC — $10,000 · Religion+1 more — $5,190 · ReligionVaad Hatzedaka Inc — $29,656 · Human ServicesKEREN HATZEDAKA INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesPROTEZ FOUNDATION — $33,000 · HealthCare for Kiev Inc — $10,000 · PhilanthropyFEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC — $9,400 · PhilanthropySPARKS OF DAAS INC — $7,000 · Education
Other$2,647,298Religion$160,848Human Services$34,656Health$33,000Philanthropy$19,400Education$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCongregation Rav Lehoshia Inc — $60,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEAM USA LLC — $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetKedem for the Kiev Jewish Community — $35,658 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetVaad Hatzedaka Inc — $29,656 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCare for Kiev Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFederation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC — $9,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPARKS OF DAAS INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

  • Who funds Congregation Rav Lehoshia Inc
  • Who funds EAM USA LLC
  • Who funds Kedem for the Kiev Jewish Community
  • Who funds PROTEZ FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Vaad Hatzedaka Inc
  • Who funds Care for Kiev Inc
  • Who funds Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine INC
  • Who funds FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC
  • Who funds SPARKS OF DAAS INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HEBREW DAY SCHOOLS
  • Who funds KEREN HATZEDAKA 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.

The Ojc FundNY26.6× affinity14 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 · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Friends of the Kiev Jewish Community 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.

2022
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    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.

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    How do I get to American Friends of the Kiev Jewish Community?

    Find your warmest path to American Friends of the Kiev Jewish Community 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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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