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Ch Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$273k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$119k
Largest
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$1.1MReligion$122kPhilanthropy$58kFood & Nutrition$55kHealth$47kHuman Services$16kInternational$2kYouth Development$2k
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $122k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $119k
$1,260
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UMJCA$118,833
Individual grant recipient$31,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIFFERET RAFAEL$30,700
IRANIAN AMERICAN JEWISH FEDERATION OF NY$20,000
Individual grant recipient$16,080
CONGREGATION OF SHAARE DINA$14,200
BIKE 4 CHAI$10,000
FOUNTAIN OF KINDNESS$9,100
TOMCHEI SHABBOS OF QUEENS$7,000
Individual grant recipient$5,200
Individual grant recipient$3,100
EZRAT ISRAEL$1,260
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOL YEHUDA$1,040
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MOSDOT NER DAVID INC$1,040
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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.

US giving: 80% of grant dollars ($1.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 20% that went abroad ($278k) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MY SOLDIER: $7k → 6%MY SOLDIER: $5k → 6%MY SOLDIER: $2k → 6%MY SOLDIER: $2k → 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.

Beyond the US: 20% of all-years giving ($278k)

3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Israel$220k · 43 grants
Thailand$57k · 8 grants
Canada$1k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 38 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
23

Total granted

$1.3M
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+6%

Still filing today

13%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TI
    TSQ INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +103%
  • CL
    CHAI LIFELINE INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $36k · revenue +44%
  • MS
    MY SOLDIER INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $15k · revenue +203%

Funded once

  • TL
    TORAH LIVE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue -18%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • GO
    GIFT OF GIVING INTL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +18%
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
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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2
Tal Hashamayim Foundation
Religion
3
Friends of Chabad Tzfas Inc

To help the wellbeing of the jewish community of safed, israel and to promote jewish observance and education

International
4
Chasdei Chava Fund

Give out money for needy poor families

Philanthropy
5
Tzemach Yifroch Foundation
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6
Israel Charitable Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
7
Sherit Isroel
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8
Zichroin Rabbeini Meshilem Feiish Ztl Foundation
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9
Mashiach Foundation
Arts & Culture
10
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
11
Chabad Lametayel Inc

encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.

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12
Zichron Moshe Elihu Tzedoka Fund
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc; the most unlike its peers is Multiple Sclerosis Foundation Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 65 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UMJCA: $580,310 · OtherUMJCAIndividual grant recipient: $172,130 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIFFERET RAFAEL: $87,210 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIFFERET RAFAELUMJCA ANGEL FUND: $79,000 · OtherUMJCA ANGEL FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $57,040 · OtherTSQ INC: $48,800 · Other+46 more: $206,992 · Other+46 moreIRANIAN AMERICAN JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW YORK INC: $57,600 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCHAI LIFELINE INC: $36,180 · HealthFOUNTAIN OF KINDNESS INC: $11,100 · Health+1 more: $126 · HealthTORAH LIVE INC: $13,500 · ReligionAmerican Friends of Kol Yehuda Inc: $8,060 · ReligionCHAIM TOVIM OUTREACH INC: $1,000 · ReligionTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $980 · Religion+2 more: $900 · ReligionMY SOLDIER INC: $15,460 · Human ServicesGIFT OF GIVING INTL INC: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,231,482Philanthropy$58,600Health$47,406Religion$24,440Human Services$15,460Food & Nutrition$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIRANIAN AMERICAN JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW YORK INC: $57,600 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTSQ INC: $48,800 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $36,180 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMY SOLDIER INC: $15,460 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTORAH LIVE INC: $13,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFOUNTAIN OF KINDNESS INC: $11,100 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of Kol Yehuda Inc: $8,060 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGIFT OF GIVING INTL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCHAIM TOVIM OUTREACH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $980 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $126 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC: $30 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 IRANIAN AMERICAN JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds TSQ INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds MY SOLDIER INC ↗
  • Who funds TORAH LIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNTAIN OF KINDNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds American Friends of Kol Yehuda Inc ↗
  • Who funds GIFT OF GIVING INTL 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.

Bnei Binyamin & Rivka Kalaty Charitable Foundation IncNY22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bnei Binyamin & Rivka Kalaty Charitable Foundation Inc · Davood and Tamara Zar Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Ch Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ch Foundation 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 65 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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