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Chesed Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DESERT TORAH ACADEMY | $11,500 |
| CHABAD OF SOUTHERN NEVADA | $7,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| BEHIND THE BLUE | $3,500 |
| CENTRAL FUND FOR ISRAEL | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| QUALITY OF LIFE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
| CHABAD OF EAST BAY | $1,800 |
| YJP LAS VEGAS | $1,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIR OF LV | $1,000 |
| SAFE NEST | $500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CFCentral Fund of Israel9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +145%
- TJTHE JERUSALEM FELLOWSHIPS INC5× · 2019–2023 · $12k · revenue +59%
- AGAMERICA GIVES INC4× · 2018–2021 · $7k · revenue +392%
Funded once
- CACANTOR'S ASSEMBLYone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -21%
- AYAM YISRAEL CHAI FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +94%
- DDDEANS DISCRETIONARY FUNDone grant, 2018 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
International humanitarian aid organization. the organization provides aid to people living under the poverty line and subsistent living standards including the elderly, orphans, widows, handicapped, homeless, abused, new immigrants, and…
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
To support the needy in israel.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Assistance to the indigent
Founded in 1948, Shelters for Israels mission is to provide funding for vital projects, programs, and facilities in Israel to support the neediest populations, with a focus on improving the lives of children and the elderly, including…
Yad ezra v'shulamit's mission is to provide over 300,000 people in israel with food and basic supplies for those living in poverty by distributing 12,000 weekly food baskets. with a focus on children we try to ensure that hundreds of…
Rescue in israel exists as ohel avraham (abrahams tent) in israel ohel avraham carries out the day to day work, working with the homeless on the streets of tel aviv. ohel avraham is a registered not for profit organization in israel. ohel…
Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity Inc and the most unlike its peers is News. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 45 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds THE JERUSALEM FELLOWSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds QUALITY OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds CANTOR'S ASSEMBLY ↗
- Who funds AM YISRAEL CHAI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEHIND THE BLUE ↗
- Who funds SOROPTIMIST INTL OF MCMINNVILLE ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 150 ↗
- Who funds NEWS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF POLICE CHAPLAINS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Chesed Foundation 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.
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.
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