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Cherna Moskowitz Foundation at a glance

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Cherna Moskowitz Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

International$37MReligion$10MEducation$2.3MHealth$2.2MCivil Rights$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.1MFood & Nutrition$590kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
  • $250k+4 grants · $6.0M
$600,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$61M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL$3,447,000
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK$1,000,000
FRIENDS OF IR DAVID$1,000,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT EL YESHIVA CENTER$600,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC$200,000
FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT NIR KIRYAT ARBA$100,000
BEIS MIDRASH OF QUEENS$50,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $230k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $20k → 6%LARGER THAN LIFE: $100k → 13%EZRA CENTER OF CALIFORNIA: $50k → 10%LARGER THAN LIFE: $25k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $20k → 15%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $10k → 17%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $5k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
WI
NY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 45% of Cherna Moskowitz Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Cherna Moskowitz Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 63% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$52M · 57 repeat orgs$5.7M to everyone else

57 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
63

Total granted

$52M
$5.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+49%

Still filing today

61%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
InternationalPhilanthropyReligionEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    8× · 2017–2024 · $29M · revenue +145%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BET EL YESHIVA
    6× · 2018–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +24% · 49% of their budget
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • TI
    THE IRVING I MOSKOWITZ FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +7%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2019 · $750k
  • AC
    AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +143%
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
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2
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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3
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
4
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
5
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
6
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
7
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
8
University of Judaism Foundation
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9
American Friends of Tzir Hemed
Philanthropy
10
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Yeshivat Haraayon Hayehudi

To produce jewish leaders capable of acting and reacting in a prescribed jewish manner to the problems and challenges facing the state of israel and the jewish people.

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12
American Friends of Yeshivat Nachalat Yossef

The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Israel Fund Ltd; the most unlike its peers is Hope for the Future Educational 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.
05the grantee network

84 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. 84 of the 122 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.

19
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/84
Grantees still filing
53/84
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Central Fund of Israel: $28,983,500 · InternationalCentral Fund of IsraelFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $2,700,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC: $1,350,000 · International+27 more: $5,575,500 · International+27 moreMOSKOWITZ PRIZE FOR ZIONISM INC: $1,543,000 · OtherMOSKOWITZ PRIZE FOR…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT HESDER SDEROT: $1,183,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZOLAH: $1,100,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA SHAVEI HEVRON: $910,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL: $750,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF…Beis Midrash of Queens: $715,000 · OtherBeis Midrash of Que…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BEL EL YESHIVA CENTER: $700,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF…NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAEL: $387,500 · Other+44 more: $2,971,000 · Other+44 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BET EL YESHIVA: $2,875,000 · EducationPROCLAIMING JUSTICE TO THE NATIONS INC: $146,000 · Education+4 more: $80,100 · EducationAmerican Friends of Mercaz Harav Kook: $1,300,000 · ReligionNefesh B'Nefesh Jewish Souls United Inc: $500,000 · ReligionGENERATION OF ISRAEL INC: $400,000 · ReligionFRIENDS OF ITAMAR INCORPORATED: $350,000 · ReligionFRIENDS OF NIR KIRYAT ARBA: $250,000 · Religion+8 more: $301,000 · ReligionTHE IRVING I MOSKOWITZ FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican Friends of Ayelet Hashachar: $285,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF KIRYAT ARBA INC: $125,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican Friends of Shaalei Torah Inc: $81,500 · Philanthropy+11 more: $336,500 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MENIFA INC: $1,075,000 · Youth DevelopmentLARGER THAN LIFE USA INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesEzra Center of California: $50,000 · Human ServicesISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $20,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $15,000 · Human Services
International$38,609,000Other$10,259,500Education$3,101,100Religion$3,101,000Philanthropy$1,828,000Youth Development$1,075,000Human Services$230,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $28,983,500 over 8y, 15% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BET EL YESHIVA: $2,875,000 over 6y, 49% of budgetFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $2,700,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC: $1,350,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetAmerican Friends of Mercaz Harav Kook: $1,300,000 over 3y, 70% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $1,130,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $1,075,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MENIFA INC: $1,075,000 over 2y, 86% of budgetTHE IRVING I MOSKOWITZ FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $750,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBeis Midrash of Queens: $715,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNefesh B'Nefesh Jewish Souls United Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetHATIKVAH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $430,000 over 4y, 65% of budgetGENERATION OF ISRAEL INC: $400,000 over 4y, 96% of budgetTHE NEGEV FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetFRIENDS OF ITAMAR INCORPORATED: $350,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetSHAVEI HEVRON INSTITUTIONS INC: $350,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetAmerican Friends of Ayelet Hashachar: $285,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetFRIENDS OF NIR KIRYAT ARBA: $250,000 over 4y, 73% of budgetCOORDINATING COUNCIL FOR THE JEWISH HOMELAND INC: $200,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIMAD ALON MOREH INC: $166,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetHOPE FOR THE FUTURE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetPROCLAIMING JUSTICE TO THE NATIONS INC: $146,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetLARGER THAN LIFE USA INC: $125,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCLARION PROJECT INC: $125,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF KIRYAT ARBA INC: $125,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetBinyamin Fund Inc DBA The Heart of Israel: $115,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetJUBILEE ORPHANAGE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetHELP US SAVE THE YOUTHS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetOHR SOMAYACH INTERNATIONAL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWestern Wall Heritage Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI: $90,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $85,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Shaalei Torah Inc: $81,500 over 2y, 47% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAALEH ADUMIM FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAVEI YISRAEL INC: $55,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetHEBRON FUND INC: $54,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEzra Center of California: $50,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BARUCH UMARPEH: $50,000 over 3y, 48% of budgetJEWISH HERITAGE MOVEMENT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NETZER CHAZANI INC: $50,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWestern Center For Journalism: $50,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetKULANU INC: $50,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $50,000 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.

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.

The Irving I Moskowit…Jewish Communal FundThe Dennis Berman Fam…Associated Jewish Cha…Jewish Federation of …Greater Miami Jewish …The Frieman FoundationIranian American Jewi…Adelson Family Founda…Gertrude and Morris B…FjcAlyad Foundation Inc
The Irving I Moskowitz FoundationCA96× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Irving I Moskowitz Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · The Frieman Foundation · Iranian American Jewish Federation of New York Inc · Adelson Family Foundation · Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation · Fjc · Alyad Foundation 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 Cherna Moskowitz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cherna Moskowitz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Jewish Community Services of South Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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

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How do I get to Cherna Moskowitz Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cherna Moskowitz 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 122 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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