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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 you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of CHAIM J & FAY R FORTGANG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2026 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$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
KOLLEL CHABAD$1,000
CHABAD LUBAVITCH ON CAMPUS - PRINCETON$1,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$1,000
RENEWAL OF LIFE$1,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$1,000
BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC$860
KEHILAT ZWEHIL INC$720
Individual grant recipient$500
SHINE FOUNDATION$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your 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 your 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

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve 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

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

  • 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%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed Israel Foundation and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%10%<5yr15%10%5–10yr21%15%10–20yr21%34%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr10%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%2%<5yr15%7%5–10yr21%8%10–20yr21%26%20–35yr13%45%35–55yr10%11%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
11%
6,544/59,117

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.

04the grantee network

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

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 2017–2026, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
21/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC — $500 · InternationalONE ISRAEL FUND LTD — $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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 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 budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYeshiva Tiferes Yisroel — $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
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.

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.

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

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 Chaim J & Fay R Fortgang Family Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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