· Public charity
Caroline & Joseph S Gruss Life Monument Funds Inc
Support jewish education
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN JEWISH EDUCATION INC | $5,553,557 |
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 (FY17–22, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 35% of Caroline & Joseph S Gruss Life Monument Funds Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 64% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
93 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 93 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.6M 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
- BHBEER HAGOLAH INSTITUTES INC5× · 2018–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +68%
- BBBNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY5× · 2017–2023 · $856k · revenue +149%
- WTWESTCHESTER TORAH ACADEMY6× · 2017–2023 · $778k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- TETORAS EMES ACADEMY OF MIAMI INCone grant, 2018 · $200k
- EMEAST MIDWOOD HEBREW DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $102k
- JIJEWISH INTERACTIVE INCone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -73%
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.
To provide education in general and judiac studies
To provide children with an outstanding Jewish and Secular education.
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Religious School
At Gesher Jewish Day School we inspire our students to be passionate about learning, practice justice, kindness and respect, aspire to a life guided by Jewish values, torah and community.
Yeshiva toras aron is a religious elementary school providing quality education for grades k-8 for the children of lakewood nj.
YBH of Passaic, a K-8 yeshiva in Passaic, New Jersey, emphasizes the primacy of Torah and Yiras Shomayim and offers a serious and comprehensive General Studies curriculum. YBH stresses the importance of middos tovos and acting with…
Denver academy of torah (the "school")provides education to students from kindergarten through high school. the school's mission is to nuture students to be torah-observant role models and future leaders through an intellectually rigorous…
To instill in its students a personal love for and commitment tohashem, the study and practice of torah, halacha, and jewish values asa way of life, and a love for the state of israel and the jewishpeople.
Parochial elementary school with a focus on sephardic tradition.
To operate a school in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Solomon Schechter Day School of Nassau County and the most unlike its peers is East Flatbush Religious School for. 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 38 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 136 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 CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN JEWISH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BEER HAGOLAH INSTITUTES INC ↗
- Who funds BNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER TORAH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA HAR TORAH ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA OF CENTRAL QUEENS ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SHULAMITH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds TORAS EMES ACADEMY OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds BAIS YAAKOV ATERES MIRIAM ↗
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: United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education · The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Inc · Fjc · Maalot · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Friends of Mosdot Goor · Our Jewish Children 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 Caroline & Joseph S Gruss Life Monument Funds Inc 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.
- Torah Academy of Boca Raton Inc — 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.