· Private foundation
Aviva & Marvin Sussman Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE | $15,250 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGDAL OHR | $10,000 |
| JEWISH CENTER OF ATLANTIC BEACH | $9,824 |
| RABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY - YU | $3,600 |
| OHR TORAH STONE | $2,300 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAKOR CHAIM | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL OUTREACH PROGRAM | $2,000 |
| ETZION FOUNDATION | $1,800 |
| JGIVE-FRIEND OF ASOR | $1,800 |
| PARK EAST SYNAGOGUE | $1,700 |
| THE FRISCH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| LEKET | $1,000 |
| EMUNAH OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| CONGREGATION SONS OF ISRAEL | $1,000 |
| GESHER | $800 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
62 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- YUYESHIVA UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +39%
- MIMADRAIGOS INC7× · 2017–2023 · $43k · revenue +157%
- RIRABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY5× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGDAL TORAH INCone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
- MCMAKOR CHAIM USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +159%
- WJWORLD JEWISH RELIEF USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +184%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Religious School
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
The organization provides financial assistance to victims of acts of terrorism in the state of israel.
To further jewish education in israel
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ohr Olam Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
63 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 131 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MADRAIGOS INC ↗
- Who funds RABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Migdal OHR ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGDAL TORAH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIMAD ALON MOREH INC ↗
- Who funds THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERETZ HEMDAH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds The Frisch School ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds West Side Hatzoloh ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA ↗
- Who funds Gindi Maimonides Academy ↗
- Who funds MAKOR CHAIM USA INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF L MAAN DAAT ↗
- Who funds WORLD JEWISH RELIEF USA INC ↗
- Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
- Who funds KEREN OR INC ↗
- Who funds EMUNAH OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE DISABILITY FUND 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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Ojc Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Hyman & Ann Arbesfeld Foundation Inc · Jeannette and H Peter Kriendler Char Trust · Royal Heritage Foundation Inc · Cd Foundation · The Chestnut Foundation · Terumah Foundation 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 Aviva & Marvin Sussman Foundation 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.
- The Special Children Center — 5% of income from government
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
- Yeshiva High School for Girls Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- The Frisch School — 0% of income from government
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.