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Caroline & Joseph S Gruss Life Monument Funds Inc

Support jewish education

$5.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$24MReligion$11MHealth$454kHuman Services$214kYouth Development$36kInternational$11k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,553,557
Median grant
1
States reached
$315k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN JEWISH EDUCATION INC$5,553,557
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 (FY17–22, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%KULANU TORAH ACADEMY: $26k → 6%Kulanu Torah Academy: $12k → 6%KULANU TORAH ACADEMY: $11k → 6%KULANU TORAH ACADEMY: $9k → 6%KULANU TORAH ACADEMY: $8k → 6%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 35% of Caroline & Joseph S Gruss Life Monument Funds Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 64%.

Caroline & Joseph S Gruss Life Monument Funds Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29M · 93 repeat orgs$6.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

93
41

Total granted

$29M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+8%

Still filing today

32%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • BH
    BEER HAGOLAH INSTITUTES INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +68%
  • BB
    BNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY
    5× · 2017–2023 · $856k · revenue +149%
  • WT
    WESTCHESTER TORAH ACADEMY
    6× · 2017–2023 · $778k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • TE
    TORAS EMES ACADEMY OF MIAMI INC
    one grant, 2018 · $200k
  • EM
    EAST MIDWOOD HEBREW DAY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $102k
  • YK
    Yeshiva Ketana of Los Angelesgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +74%
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
Rabbi David L Silver Yeshiva Academy

To provide education in general and judiac studies

Education
2
Yeshiva Derech Torah of Monsey Inc

To provide children with an outstanding Jewish and Secular education.

Education
3
Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc

Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students

Education
4
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.

Education
5
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
6
Gesher School Inc

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.

Education
7
Yeshiva Toras Aron Inc

Yeshiva toras aron is a religious elementary school providing quality education for grades k-8 for the children of lakewood nj.

Education
8
Passaic Hebrew Institute

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…

Education
9
Denver Academy of Torah

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…

Education
10
Yeshivat Kadimah High School

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.

—
11
Yeshivat Or Hachaim of Lakewood Inc

Parochial elementary school with a focus on sephardic tradition.

Education
12
Yeshivas Ohr Yissochor Academy Inc

To operate a school in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Solomon Schechter Day School of Nassau County; 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.
05the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 136 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/48
Grantees still filing
35/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YESHIVAH OF FLATBUSH: $2,166,976 · OtherYESHIVAH OF FLATBUSHCONGREGATION DARCHEI TORAH: $1,719,207 · OtherCONGREGATION DARCHEI TORAHMESIVTA YESHIVA RABBI CHAIM BERLIN: $1,706,836 · OtherMESIVTA YESHIVA RABBI CHAIM BERLINBEER HAGOLAH INSTITUTES INC: $1,560,294 · OtherBEER HAGOLAH INSTITUTES INCHEBREW ACADEMY OF THE FIVE TOWNS AND ROCKAWAY: $1,312,375 · OtherHEBREW ACADEMY OF THE FIVE TOWNS AND ROCKAWAYYESHIVATH TORAH VODAATH: $1,304,324 · OtherYESHIVATH TORAH VODAATHBNOS MENACHEM INC: $1,143,443 · OtherWESTCHESTER DAY SCHOOL: $981,484 · Other+92 more: $12,255,181 · Other+92 moreCENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN JEWISH EDUCATION: $5,553,557 · EducationCENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN JEWISH …BNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $856,210 · EducationBNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAYWESTCHESTER TORAH ACADEMY: $778,386 · EducationWESTCHESTER TORAH ACADEMYYESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLS: $761,532 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLSABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL: $571,193 · EducationABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL+24 more: $1,945,509 · Education+24 moreTORAS EMES ACADEMY OF MIAMI INC: $200,000 · ReligionBOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $127,855 · ReligionJEWISH INTERACTIVE INC: $100,000 · ReligionYESHIVAT DARCHE ERES INC: $90,764 · Religion+1 more: $5,065 · ReligionKULANU ACADEMY INC: $65,972 · Human ServicesMADRAIGOS INC: $36,000 · Youth Development
Other$24,150,120Education$10,466,387Religion$523,684Human Services$65,972Youth Development$36,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN JEWISH EDUCATION: $5,553,557 over 1y, 82% of budgetBEER HAGOLAH INSTITUTES INC: $1,560,294 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetBNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $856,210 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetWESTCHESTER TORAH ACADEMY: $778,386 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLS: $761,532 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL: $571,193 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetYESHIVA HAR TORAH: $502,979 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetYESHIVA OF CENTRAL QUEENS: $302,250 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetNORTH SHORE HEBREW ACADEMY: $280,922 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSHULAMITH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $207,241 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTORAS EMES ACADEMY OF MIAMI INC: $200,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBAIS YAAKOV ATERES MIRIAM: $199,291 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetSOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF NASSAU COUNTY: $153,510 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBARKAI FOUNDATION INC: $132,539 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetASSOCIATED BETH RIVKA SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $130,912 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $127,855 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSHEFA SCHOOL: $113,164 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetEAST FLATBUSH RELIGIOUS SCHOOL FOR: $109,507 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetNORTH SHORE HEBREW ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL: $107,362 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPARENTS FOR TORAH FOR ALL CHILDREN INC: $106,403 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCarmel Academy: $103,216 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SOLOMON SCHECHTER SCHOOL OF QUEENS INC: $100,297 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetYeshiva Ketana of Los Angeles: $100,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetJEWISH INTERACTIVE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetSAM & ESTHER MINSKOFF CULTURAL CENTER PARK EAST DAY SCHOOL INC: $95,067 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHANNAH SENESH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL: $94,361 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYeshiva Tiferes Yisroel: $92,928 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetYESHIVAT DARCHE ERES INC: $90,764 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLURIA ACADEMY OF BROOKLYN: $80,372 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTORAH ACADEMY OF BOCA RATON INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetKULANU ACADEMY INC: $65,972 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSolomon Schechter School of Manhattan: $62,111 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBEIT RABBAN DAY SCHOOL: $54,416 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetKINNERET DAY SCHOOL INC: $42,875 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMADRAIGOS INC: $36,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetYESHIVAT SHAARE TORAH INC: $26,367 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEZRA ACADEMY OF QUEENS: $18,591 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYESHIVA DERECH CHAIM: $13,626 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYESHIVA OHAVEI TORAH OF RIVERDALE INC: $11,287 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEBREW ACADEMY FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN INC: $5,695 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHULAMITH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS OF BROOKLYN: $5,115 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUSA OUTREACH: $5,065 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 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 ↗

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.

United Jewish Appeal-…Center for Initiative…The Ojc FundJewish Communal FundNational Society for …Yeled V'Yalda Early C…FjcMaalotJewish Community Foun…Zichron Chaim Charity…Friends of Mosdot GoorOur Jewish Children I…
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York IncNY106.5× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Caroline & Joseph S Gruss Life Monument Funds Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Caroline & Joseph S Gruss Life Monument Funds Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Torah Academy of Boca Raton Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 136 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 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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By state
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