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Chaim J & Fay R Fortgang Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Chaim J & Fay R Fortgang Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$25k
Granted FY2026still arriving
35
Grants FY2026still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2026.

Religion$47kHealth$16kInternational$13kPhilanthropy$8kEducation$8kArts & Culture$7kHuman Services$2kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2026 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$449k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION BETH JOSEPH$5,000
CONGREGATION TORAH OHR INC$2,069
HEBREW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH$1,800
KOL HANEARIM INC$1,500
KOLEL CHAFETZ HASHEM$1,400
WOMENS INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION$1,200
RENEWAL OF LIFE$1,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$1,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$1,000
CHABAD LUBAVITCH ON CAMPUS - PRINCETON$1,000
KOLLEL CHABAD$1,000
BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC$860
KEHILAT ZWEHIL INC$720
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ZERA SHIMSHON$500
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE CHABAD LUBAVITCH INC$500
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 (FY25–26, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DEENA MOTECHIN JACOBS GEMILAS CHESED FUND: $100 → 11%RENEWAL OF LIFE: $4k → 20%RENEWAL OF LIFE: $1k → 20%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$55k · 23 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2026, 10 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
35

Total granted

$55k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+1%

Still filing today

57%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25’26
InternationalReligionPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CL
    CHAI LIFELINE INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue +7%
  • YN
    YESHIVAT NOAM
    2× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +7%
  • BT
    BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    2× · 2025–2026 · $1k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TSHEBINER
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -45%
  • HF
    HEBRON FUND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +10%
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
Sherit Isroel
—
2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
4
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

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

Religion
5
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
6
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Zicron Eliyahu Inc
—
8
Humanitarian Partnership for Israel

Providing financial assistance to needy individuals as well as to other charitable, educational, and religious organizations in israel and worldwide

Philanthropy
9
Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Tal Hashamayim Foundation
Religion
11
Israel Initiative 2020 Inc
International
12
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed Israel Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Middle East Media and Research Institute 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

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 80 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
21/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION BETH JOSEPH: $15,000 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH JOSEPHAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TSHEBINER: $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TSHEBINERCONGREGATION TORAH OHR INC: $3,525 · OtherCONGREGATION TORAH OHR INCIndividual grant recipient: $3,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHABAD LUBAVITCH ON CAMPUS- PRINCETON: $2,800 · OtherHEBREW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH: $1,800 · Other+43 more: $17,387 · Other+43 morePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $7,500 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWM…HEBRON FUND INC: $6,800 · PhilanthropyHEBRON FUND INCBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1,060 · PhilanthropyBOYS TOWN JERUSAL…GARDEN OF DREAMS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyGARDEN OF DREAMS …+1 more: $122 · PhilanthropyCHAI LIFELINE INC: $10,652 · HealthCHAI LIFELIN…HATZOLAH EMERGENCY AIR RESPONSE TEAM INC: $1,000 · HealthHATZOLAH EME…+1 more: $72 · HealthFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $7,200 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS O…ATHLETES FOR ISRAEL INC: $1,800 · Arts & CultureATHLETES …+1 more: $150 · Arts & CultureYESHIVAT NOAM: $7,100 · EducationYESHIVAT SHALSHELET INC: $500 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationKOL HANEARIM INC: $2,000 · InternationalWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION: $1,200 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,000 · InternationalONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC: $500 · InternationalHAYELADIM SHELANU - OUR CHILDREN INC: $360 · International+8 more: $520 · InternationalRENEWAL OF LIFE INC: $4,600 · Human Services+2 more: $112 · Human Services
Other$53,812Philanthropy$16,482Health$11,724Arts & Culture$9,150Education$7,700International$6,080Human Services$4,712

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 budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $10,652 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $7,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVAT NOAM: $7,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEBRON FUND INC: $6,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRENEWAL OF LIFE INC: $4,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKOL HANEARIM INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATHLETES FOR ISRAEL INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGARDEN OF DREAMS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVAT SHALSHELET INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OF NEW SQUARE INC DBA CHESED 247: $334 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAdi Israel Foundation Inc: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEYLIM LEV LACHIM: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEED ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $122 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYeshiva Tiferes Yisroel: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM: $86 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $72 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Tiberias Institutions Relief Society Inc: $18 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENERAL ISRAEL ORPHAN HOME FOR GIRLS: $18 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $12 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.

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 FundThe Ojc FundFjcF G FoundationJack Adjmi Family Fou…House of Gross Founda…The Nathan and Marily…Jewish Federation of …The Irving I Moskowit…Alyad Foundation IncDallas Jewish Communi…Associated Jewish Cha…
Jewish Communal FundNY32.8× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Fjc · F G Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · House of Gross Foundation Inc · The Nathan and Marilyn Silberman Fdn · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · The Irving I Moskowitz Foundation · Alyad Foundation Inc · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore

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 Chaim J & Fay R Fortgang Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chaim J & Fay R Fortgang Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 80 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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