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Ari and Nechama Baer Foundation Inc at a glance

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Ari and Nechama Baer Foundation Inc

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.

$601k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$3.6MPhilanthropy$577kPublic Safety & Disaster$120kYouth Development$116kEducation$96kHealth$67kHuman Services$25kFood & Nutrition$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $253k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $308k
$11,333
Median grant
6
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Chabad of North Hollywood$129,540
Valley Torah High School$122,945
Bais Tefila$55,883
Small Donations to Various 501c3 cl$35,364
Yeshiva Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin$35,000
Individual grant recipient$26,540
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERES BNOS YER$20,175
CONGREGATION TZEMACH TZEDEK$20,000
San Fernando Valley Hebrew High Sch$18,600
FRIENDS OF MAYANOT INSTITUTE INC$18,000
Valley Village Community Kollel$17,500
Individual grant recipient$11,333
Emek Hebrew Academy$10,200
American Friends of Tiferes Chaim$10,000
Rav Chaims Kollelim Inc$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Special Children's Center: $5k → 11%Bonei Olam: $10k → 20%Bonei Olam: $10k → 20%Relief Resources Inc: $5k → 20%Bonei Olam: $10k → 20%Beit Hayeled Los Angeles: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NV
NJ
CA
MD
FL
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 23 repeat orgs$959k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
34

Total granted

$3.7M
$801k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+32%

Still filing today

22%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • YK
    Yeshiva Ketana of Los Angeles
    2× · 2023–2024 · $68k · revenue +45%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +51%
  • BO
    Bonei Olam Inc
    3× · 2019–2023 · $30k · revenue +160%

Funded once

  • CO
    Chabad of Newbury Park
    one grant, 2022 · $297k
  • VC
    Valley Community Church
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • MB
    Manela Brothers Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $74k · revenue -55%
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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Friends of Yeshiva Tehilas Shlomo Inc

Provide support to further jewish education

Philanthropy
3
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
4
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
5
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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6
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship
Religion
8
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
9
Gemilas Chesed Kramer Inc
Philanthropy
10
Friends of Meor Israel

Education and religious activities and research

Education
11
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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12
Ohr Yisrael Yeshiva Inc

Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Yeshiva Dmir Inc; the most unlike its peers is Manela Brothers Foundation 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

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 67 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHABAD OF NORTH HOLLYWOOD: $1,532,807 · OtherCHABAD OF NORTH HOLLYWOODSAN FERNANDO VALLEY HEBREW HIGH SCHOOL VALLEY TORAH HIGH SCHOOL: $363,066 · OtherSAN FERNANDO VALLEY HEBREW HIGH SCHOOL VALLEY TORAH HIGH SCHOOLSmall Donations to Various 501c3 cl: $331,545 · OtherSmall Donations to Various 501c3 clChabad of Newbury Park: $297,301 · OtherChabad of Newbury ParkEMEK HEBREW DAY SCHOOL: $273,509 · OtherEMEK HEBREW DAY SCHOOLVALLEY VILLAGE COMMUNITY KOLLEL INC: $264,500 · OtherVALLEY VILLAGE COMMUNITY KOLLEL INC+44 more: $1,245,293 · Other+44 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $125,000 · PhilanthropyManela Brothers Foundation Inc: $73,975 · PhilanthropyKESER DOVIDINC: $29,700 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF MAYANOT INSTITUTE INC: $18,000 · PhilanthropyYeshiva Ketana of Los Angeles: $67,680 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERES BNOS YERUSHAL: $20,175 · EducationCongregation Tzemach Tzedek: $20,000 · EducationTORAH ORE SEMINARY: $10,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF YESHIVA OHR ELCHONON INC: $5,000 · EducationBonei Olam Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesBEIT HAYELED LOS ANGELES: $10,000 · Human ServicesRELIEF RESOURCES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $30,250 · InternationalGush Etzion Foundation % Juliette Landesman: $5,000 · InternationalCHAZAK: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentHATZOLAH OF LOS ANGELES: $20,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$4,308,021Philanthropy$246,675Education$122,855Human Services$50,000International$35,250Youth Development$25,000Public Safety & Disaster$20,000

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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetManela Brothers Foundation Inc: $73,975 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetYeshiva Ketana of Los Angeles: $67,680 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $30,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKESER DOVIDINC: $29,700 over 1y, 17% of budgetCHAZAK: $25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERES BNOS YERUSHAL: $20,175 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetHATZOLAH OF LOS ANGELES: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCongregation Tzemach Tzedek: $20,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF MAYANOT INSTITUTE INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRav Chaims Kollelim Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBEIT HAYELED LOS ANGELES: $10,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetTORAH ORE SEMINARY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTOUCH OF KINDNESS INC: $7,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRELIEF RESOURCES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGush Etzion Foundation % Juliette Landesman: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YESHIVA OHR ELCHONON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds Manela Brothers Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Yeshiva Ketana of Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC ↗
  • Who funds Bonei Olam Inc ↗
  • Who funds KESER DOVIDINC ↗
  • Who funds CHAZAK ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERES BNOS YERUSHAL ↗
  • Who funds HATZOLAH OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds Congregation Tzemach Tzedek ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF MAYANOT INSTITUTE 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.

Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Communal FundThe Ojc FundGoldner Family Founda…Better Communities To…Jewish Federation Cou…Zichron Chaim Charity…National Society for …Rohcs Family Foundati…Hager FoundationDonors Fund IncGs Donor Advised Phil…
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA40.5× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Goldner Family Foundation Inc · Better Communities Together Foundation · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Rohcs Family Foundation Inc · Hager Foundation · Donors Fund Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Ari and Nechama Baer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ari and Nechama Baer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • The Special Children Center: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get 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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Find your warmest path to Ari and Nechama Baer Foundation Inc 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 67 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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