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Astar Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$174k
Granted FY2025still arriving
95
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$339kPhilanthropy$273kArts & Culture$39kHuman Services$20kInternational$16kEducation$14kYouth Development$10kHealth$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 95 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k90 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
$360
Median grant
12
States reached
$921k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHOR YOSHUV INSTITUTE$40,230
CONGREGATION KNESETH ISRAEL$24,700
JEWISH HERITAGE CENTER$15,518
PROJECT INSPIRE$10,000
AISH HATORAH OF CLEVELAND$10,000
SCRANTON HEBREW DAY SCHOOL$6,250
SUPPORTERS OF TORAH$5,000
MOSDOS BOTOSHAN$3,652
Individual grant recipient$3,600
JOY$2,860
AL KANFEI NISHARIM$2,650
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT$2,480
CONGREGATION KHAL MEVAKSHEI HASHEM$2,333
CHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE$2,180
YESHIVA BETH MOSHE SCHOOL$1,908
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 (FY22–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%TSEDAKA CENTER: $150 → 15%ISRAEL MEDICAL FUND CORP: $1k → 17%FRIENDS OF YASHAR LACHAYAL: $500 → 8%VAAD HATZEDAKA: $40 → 15%ISRAEL MEDICAL FUND CORP: $1k → 17%CHAIM4EVER: $500 → 11%KEREN HATZEDAKA: $307 → 11%YAD CHAYA: $360 → 13%MOSDOS NESIVAS SHALOM: $100 → 14%BELEV ECHAD INC: $180 → 17%AVIGDORS HELPING HAND: $77 → 13%ISRAEL SELECT CHARITY FUND: $36 → 14%OZER DALIM OF LAKEWOOD: $180 → 11%CHAI4EVER: $136 → 11%TZEDAKAH TATZEEL MEMOVES: $3k → 6%OZER DALIM OF LAKEWOOD: $50 → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $500 → 11%GEMACH OF JACKSON: $500 → 11%GEMACH OF JACKSON: $140 → 11%AL KANFEI NISHARIM: $3k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $2k → 6%AL KANFEI NISHARIM: $2k → 6%ACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $500 → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $180 → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $100 → 6%KUPAT GIVAT HAMIVTAR: $50 → 6%A TIME: $280 → 20%A TIME: $250 → 20%A TIME: $180 → 20%A TIME: $180 → 20%BONEI OLAM: $360 → 20%BONEI OLAM: $290 → 20%BONEI OLAM: $286 → 20%BONEI OLAM: $180 → 20%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
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DE
TN
DC
TX
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$640k · 80 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +3% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

80 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 50 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
153

Total granted

$640k
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
0%

Still filing today

43%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
ReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalEducationHealthOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $16k · revenue +63%
  • AG
    AISH GLOBAL INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $13k · revenue +32%
  • HE
    HATZOLAH EMERGENCY AIR RESPONSE TEAM INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF OHR MOSHE MIAMI
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • MY
    MESIVTA YESHIVA RABBI CHAIM BERLIN
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • AH
    AISH HATORAH OF CLEVELAND
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
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.

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Sherit Isroel
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2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
4
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
5
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
6
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
7
Zicron Eliyahu Inc
—
8
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Ezreinu Inc
Health
10
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
11
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
12
Gemilas Chesed Kramer Inc
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Chesed Fund Limited. 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

105 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. 105 of the 287 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/105
Grantees still filing
42/105
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST: $252,690 · OtherAVAILABLE UPON REQUESTCONGREGATION KNESETH ISRAEL: $83,742 · OtherCONGREGATION KNESETH ISRAELSHOR YOSHUV: $41,230 · OtherSHOR YOSHUVJEWISH HERITAGE CENTER: $21,418 · Other+137 more: $228,483 · Other+137 morePROJECT INSPIRE INC: $24,826 · ReligionPROJECT I…AISH GLOBAL INC: $12,852 · ReligionAISH GLOB…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAH AND TEFILAH RAMAT ESHKOL INC: $10,000 · ReligionAMERICAN …MOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC: $8,088 · ReligionMOMENTUM …HITMASRUT INC: $3,180 · Religion+14 more: $8,878 · Religion+14 moreOHR MEIR UBRACHA: $6,920 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $3,480 · PhilanthropyGOFUNDMEORG: $2,466 · PhilanthropyTHE CHESED FUND LIMITED: $1,893 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF DARCHEI HILLEL INC: $1,800 · PhilanthropyDAILY GIVING INC: $1,528 · PhilanthropyHIDABROOT CORP: $1,440 · PhilanthropyJust One Chesed Inc: $860 · Philanthropy+5 more: $2,485 · PhilanthropyAL KANFEI NISHARIM INC: $4,450 · Human ServicesTZEDAKAH TATZEEL MEMOVES INC: $2,680 · Human ServicesDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $2,280 · Human ServicesISRAEL MEDICAL FUND CORP: $2,250 · Human ServicesBonei Olam Inc: $1,116 · Human ServicesA Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange: $890 · Human ServicesGEMACH OF JACKSON INC: $640 · Human ServicesCHAI 4EVER INC: $636 · Human Services+6 more: $2,577 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $15,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $200 · Arts & CultureSCRANTON HEBREW DAY SCHOOL: $9,700 · EducationORLANDO TORAH ACADEMY INC: $2,410 · EducationSHULAMITH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS OF BROOKLYN: $1,280 · Education+4 more: $1,670 · EducationHATZOLAH EMERGENCY AIR RESPONSE TEAM INC: $2,898 · HealthAMUDIM COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $1,552 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $200 · HealthBEIT BINYAMIN INC: $186 · Health
Other$627,563Religion$67,824Philanthropy$22,872Human Services$17,519Arts & Culture$15,700Education$15,060Health$4,836

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROJECT INSPIRE INC: $24,826 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAISH GLOBAL INC: $12,852 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAH AND TEFILAH RAMAT ESHKOL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSCRANTON HEBREW DAY SCHOOL: $9,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC: $8,088 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOHR MEIR UBRACHA: $6,920 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAL KANFEI NISHARIM INC: $4,450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $3,480 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHITMASRUT INC: $3,180 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHATZOLAH EMERGENCY AIR RESPONSE TEAM INC: $2,898 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTZEDAKAH TATZEEL MEMOVES INC: $2,680 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $2,466 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORLANDO TORAH ACADEMY INC: $2,410 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $2,280 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL MEDICAL FUND CORP: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUR PLACE INC: $2,163 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetZICHRON ELIYAHU INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF DARCHEI HILLEL INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS OF COURAGE INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMISHMERES HASHOLOM INC: $1,610 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAMUDIM COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $1,552 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAILY GIVING INC: $1,528 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAYS ORGANIZATION INC: $1,525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIDABROOT CORP: $1,440 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHULAMITH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS OF BROOKLYN: $1,280 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $1,116 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTZEDAKAH VCHESED INC: $1,033 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHILOH ISRAEL CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange: $890 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJust One Chesed Inc: $860 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCKAWAY CITIZENS SAFETY PATROL INC: $720 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOD HAADAM: $660 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEMACH OF JACKSON INC: $640 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI 4EVER INC: $636 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC: $605 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $580 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN HATZEDAKA INC: $537 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Yashar L'Chayal Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF ILLINOIS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA SHAAREI ARAZIM: $470 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP HASC INC: $445 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHR NAAVA: $418 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN CHAIM ZANVIL INC: $360 over 1y, 0.1% 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 PROJECT INSPIRE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds AISH GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAH AND TEFILAH RAMAT ESHKOL INC ↗
  • Who funds SCRANTON HEBREW DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds OHR MEIR UBRACHA ↗
  • Who funds AL KANFEI NISHARIM INC ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds HITMASRUT INC ↗
  • Who funds HATZOLAH EMERGENCY AIR RESPONSE TEAM INC ↗
  • Who funds TZEDAKAH TATZEEL MEMOVES INC ↗
  • Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
  • Who funds ORLANDO TORAH ACADEMY 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.

Alyad Foundation IncThe Ojc FundJewish Communal FundJack Adjmi Family Fou…The Basch Family Foun…Zichron Yechiel Meche…Associated Jewish Cha…Cross River Community…The Fishoff Family Fo…The Jmg FoundationThe J W FoundationEisenberg Family Foun…
Alyad Foundation IncNY118.9× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alyad Foundation Inc · The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Basch Family Foundation · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Cross River Community Foundation · The Fishoff Family Foundation · The Jmg Foundation · The J W Foundation · Eisenberg Family Foundation 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 Astar Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Astar Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Bnos Melech of Lakewood Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Chai 4EVER Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Astar Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Astar 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 287 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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