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Aviva & Marvin Sussman Foundation at a glance

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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.

$62k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$292kEducation$82kYouth Development$43kInternational$27kHealth$23kHuman Services$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k37 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$500
Median grant
11
States reached
$31k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NATIONAL OUTREACH PROGRAM$2,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAKOR CHAIM$2,000
JGIVE-FRIEND OF ASOR$1,800
ETZION FOUNDATION$1,800
PARK EAST SYNAGOGUE$1,700
THE FRISCH SCHOOL$1,000
LEKET$1,000
CONGREGATION SONS OF ISRAEL$1,000
EMUNAH OF AMERICA$1,000
GESHER$800
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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200 → 14%THE SPECIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $360 → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $150 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $150 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%THE DISABILITY OPPORTUNITY FUND: $300 → 6%THE DISABILITY OPPORTUNITY FUND: $300 → 6%THE DISABILITY OPPORTUNITY FUND: $250 → 6%THE DISABILITY OPPORTUNITY FUND: $250 → 6%THE DISABILITY OPPORTUNITY FUND: $250 → 6%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $360 → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $250 → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $200 → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $500 → 17%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $500 → 17%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $500 → 17%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $500 → 17%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $360 → 17%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $360 → 17%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
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
GA
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$448k · 62 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
45

Total granted

$448k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+46%

Still filing today

52%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
InternationalEducationHealthReligionHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • YU
    YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +39%
  • MI
    MADRAIGOS INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $43k · revenue +157%
  • RI
    RABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    5× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGDAL TORAH INC
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
  • MC
    MAKOR CHAIM USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +159%
  • WJ
    WORLD JEWISH RELIEF USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +184%
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
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
3
Sherit Isroel
—
4
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
5
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
6
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

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

Religion
7
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
8
University of Judaism Foundation
—
9
American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc

To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.

Religion
10
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

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

Education
11
Ohr Meir Ubracha

The organization provides financial assistance to victims of acts of terrorism in the state of israel.

Philanthropy
12
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 131 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
45/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE INC: $84,412 · OtherLINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE INCJEWISH CENTER OF ATLANTIC BEACH: $50,785 · OtherJEWISH CENTER OF ATLANTIC BEACHAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA MIGDAL TORAH: $29,400 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA MIGDAL TORAHCONGREGATION SHEARITH ISRAEL: $29,243 · OtherCONGREGATION SHEARITH ISRAELPARK EAST SYNAGOGUE: $16,350 · OtherPARK EAST SYNAGOGUEMANHATTAN DAY SCHOOL: $13,860 · Other+79 more: $64,226 · Other+79 moreYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $59,550 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITYRABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $12,400 · EducationRABBI ISAAC ELCHAN…The Frisch School: $3,000 · Education+6 more: $3,720 · EducationMADRAIGOS INC: $42,500 · Youth DevelopmentMADRAIGOS IN…American Friends of Migdal OHR: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentAmerican Fri…AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $10,805 · InternationalTHE GESHER FOUNDATION INC: $5,300 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERETZ HEMDAH: $4,200 · InternationalMAKOR CHAIM USA INC: $2,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF L MAAN DAAT: $1,616 · InternationalEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC: $1,360 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $1,100 · International+5 more: $1,516 · InternationalOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $12,000 · ReligionNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN: $8,000 · ReligionETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA: $2,050 · ReligionGindi Maimonides Academy: $2,000 · ReligionWORLD JEWISH RELIEF USA INC: $1,580 · ReligionOhr Olam Corp: $1,000 · Religion+1 more: $430 · ReligionAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,810 · HealthWest Side Hatzoloh: $2,660 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,800 · HealthSharsheret Inc: $1,530 · HealthBIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN INC: $1,341 · HealthMUCOLIPIDOSIS TYPE IV FOUNDATION INC: $1,237 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $698 · Health+2 more: $660 · HealthHEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC: $2,220 · Human ServicesTHE DISABILITY FUND INC: $1,350 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,100 · Human ServicesBOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $810 · Human ServicesBELEV ECHAD INC: $500 · Human ServicesTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $360 · Human Services+1 more: $28 · Human Services
Other$288,276Education$78,670Youth Development$52,500International$27,897Religion$27,060Health$12,736Human Services$6,368

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 budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $59,550 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMADRAIGOS INC: $42,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetRABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $12,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $10,805 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN: $8,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIMAD ALON MOREH INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGDAL TORAH INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GESHER FOUNDATION INC: $5,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERETZ HEMDAH: $4,200 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frisch School: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,810 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWest Side Hatzoloh: $2,660 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC: $2,220 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA: $2,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAKOR CHAIM USA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF L MAAN DAAT: $1,616 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD JEWISH RELIEF USA INC: $1,580 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $1,530 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN OR INC: $1,480 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC: $1,360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DISABILITY FUND INC: $1,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN INC: $1,341 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMUCOLIPIDOSIS TYPE IV FOUNDATION INC: $1,237 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOhr Olam Corp: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Gimmel Foundation Inc: $840 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $810 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $698 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTALMUDIC RESEARCH CENTER OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELEV ECHAD INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $442 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHABAD OF RURAL GEORGIA INC: $430 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Community Relations Council of New York: $371 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER TORAH ACADEMY: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF EZRA L MARPEH: $360 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEMA'AN ACHAI: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC BEACH RESCUE UNIT INC: $350 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $180 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 BIMAD ALON MOREH INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGDAL TORAH 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 MAKOR CHAIM USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Gindi Maimonides Academy ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 Communal FundFjcJewish Community Foun…Jewish Federation of …The Ojc FundCombined Jewish Phila…Hyman & Ann Arbesfeld…Jeannette and H Peter…Royal Heritage Founda…Cd FoundationThe Chestnut Foundati…Terumah Foundation Inc
Jewish Communal FundNY45× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Aviva & Marvin Sussman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aviva & Marvin Sussman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 131 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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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home