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Cross River Community 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.

$6.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
246
Grants FY2024still arriving
20
States reached
$565k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Religion$3.6MEducation$1.6MCommunity Improvement$1.4MHealth$1.4MHuman Services$1.2MInternational$1.2MYouth Development$586kArts & Culture$417kOther$0
02FY2024 · 246 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k149 grants · $330k
  • $10k–50k68 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+7 grants · $2.6M
$5,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$721k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF BARZILAI$565,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TIFERES YISROEL$480,000
RELIGIOUS ZIONIST YOUTH MOVEMENT BNEI AKIVA OF THE US AND CANADA DBA BNEI A$410,000
AISH GLOBAL INC$350,000
MADRAIGOS INC$256,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC$250,000
SHAVEI HEVRON INSTITUTIONS INC$250,000
OPERATION HOPE INC$208,000
CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL$200,000
JEWISH FAMILY IDENTITY INC$137,000
SHULAMITH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS$125,000
DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC$113,000
CONSORTIUM OF JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC$111,000
OUR PLACE IN NEW YORK$102,600
BROOKLYN ALLIANCE INC$100,000
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 (FY22–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%AVIGDOR'S HELPING HAND: $72k → 13%THE JEWISH WOMAN ENTREPRENEUR: $11k → 13%LEGACY TREATMENT SERVICES: $5k → 7%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER INC: $14k → 11%KNOCK KNOCK GIVE A SOCK: $10k → 16%JASON ARD'S CHRISTMAS CRUSADE: $80k → 13%SULAM: $5k → 8%FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $6k → 7%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES: $20k → 20%ISRAEL MEDICAL FUND: $10k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $10k → 11%KNOCK KNOCK GIVE A SOCK: $10k → 16%AVIGDOR'S HELPING HAND: $36k → 13%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING & SERVICES INC: $20k → 20%RARITAN VALLEY ORTHODOX JEWISH COMMUNITY ASSCOCIATION: $4k → 8%SHALOM TASK FORCE: $5k → 17%IT'S A SHE THING INC: $5k → 20%SHALOM TASK FORCE: $5k → 17%ITS A SHE THING: $5k → 20%INCLUDENYC: $5k → 17%SHALOM TASK FORCE: $4k → 17%RISE CHARITABLE INC: $10k → 20%THE DISABILITY OPPORTUNITY FUND: $10k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $113k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $106k → 6%ACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $72k → 6%ACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $36k → 6%ACHIEZER: $10k → 6%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $12k → 7%SAFE HORIZON INC: $10k → 17%OUR PLACE IN NEW YORK: $103k → 20%THE CHEVRA GEMACH INC: $30k → 6%KULANU ACADEMY: $9k → 6%KULANU ACADEMY: $5k → 6%OUR PLACE IN NY INC: $100k → 20%KULANU ACADEMY: $4k → 6%BKBNK INC (THE BROOKLYN BANK): $15k → 20%BKBNK INC: $5k → 20%HELPING HAND FOUNDATION INC: $55k → 7%RELIEF RESOURCES: $5k → 20%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY (JFCS): $5k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $5k → 7%MISASKIM CORP: $7k → 20%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $5k → 7%GIRLS WHO CODE: $11k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $5k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $5k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $4k → 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

WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
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.
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.
$6.9M · 130 repeat orgs$5.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

130 repeat relationships: 100 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 145 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

130
366

Total granted

$6.9M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+11%

Still filing today

75%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthInternationalReligionPhilanthropyOther
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
    2× · 2023–2024 · $550k · revenue +31%
  • SS
    SHULAMITH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $500k · revenue +2%
  • RZ
    RELIGIOUS ZIONIST YOUTH MOVEMENT BNEI AKIVA OF THE US AND CANADA INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $410k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • SS
    SINAI SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2022 · $180k
  • CN
    CHOOSE NEW JERSEY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +58%
  • KO
    KIDS OF COURAGE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -64%
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
American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc

To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.

Religion
2
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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3
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
4
Ohr Meir Ubracha

The organization provides financial assistance to victims of acts of terrorism in the state of israel.

Philanthropy
5
Jewish Institute for the Blind (Jerusalem) Inc

To educate, enrich and empower visually impaired people across israel to achieve their full potential and become contributing members of society.

International
6
American Friends of Menuchas Asher Csenger Inc

To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel

Religion
7
The Abraham Initiatives Inc

Founded in 1989 and named for the common ancestor of jews and arabs, the abraham initiatives is a not-for-profit, non-partisan, organization dedicated to advancing coexistence and equality among israel's jewish and arab citizens, by…

International
8
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

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

Religion
9
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
10
Tzohar Halev Inc

Support of tzohar-a school for special needs children located in israel

Education
11
American Friends of Rabbinical College Netiv Hadaat Inc

To support, benefit, and assist yeshivat netiv hadaat- jerusalem

Education
12
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Northern New Jersey; the most unlike its peers is Rachel's Place Charitable Trust. 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

357 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. 357 of the 646 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
347/357
Grantees still filing
197/357
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPERATION HOPE INC: $509,000 · OtherOPERATION HOPE INCCHEVRA HATZALAH: $242,300 · OtherSINAI SCHOOLS: $180,000 · OtherAfrican-American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey: $214,645 · OtherBROOKLYN ALLIANCE INC: $200,000 · OtherTHE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $270,000 · Other+119 more: $3,609,987 · Other+119 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TIFERES YISROEL: $650,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YE…Central Fund of Israel: $550,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of IsraelRELIGIOUS ZIONIST YOUTH MOVEMENT BNEI AKIVA OF THE US AND CANADA INC: $410,228 · InternationalRELIGIOUS ZIONIST YOUT…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $250,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SO…SHAVEI HEVRON INSTITUTIONS INC: $250,000 · InternationalSHAVEI HEVRON INSTITUT…SHAAREI SHMUOS INC: $100,000 · International+8 more: $198,800 · International+8 moreDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $218,500 · Human ServicesDAVIS MEMO…OUR PLACE IN NY INC: $202,690 · Human ServicesOUR PLACE …ACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $118,000 · Human ServicesACHIEZER C…AVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC: $108,000 · Human ServicesAVIGDORS H…Jason Ards Christmas Crusade Inc: $80,000 · Human ServicesJason Ards…HELPING HAND FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesBROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES: $40,000 · Human Services+16 more: $236,160 · Human Services+16 moreAISH GLOBAL INC: $350,000 · ReligionAISH GLOB…CONSORTIUM OF JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC: $289,600 · ReligionCONSORTIU…JEWISH FAMILY IDENTITY INC: $137,000 · ReligionJEWISH FA…TZUR FOUNDATION INC: $75,600 · ReligionTZUR FOUN…Nefesh B'Nefesh Jewish Souls United Inc: $60,000 · ReligionNefesh B'…+3 more: $63,000 · Religion+3 moreFRIENDS OF BARZILAI: $565,000 · HealthHATZOLOH INCORPORATED DBA CHEVRA HATZALAH: $75,000 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $46,240 · HealthHATZOLAH EMERGENCY AIR RESPONSE TEAM INC: $36,000 · Health+7 more: $112,597 · HealthSHULAMITH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $500,000 · EducationROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · EducationTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationVIRTUAL ENTERPRISES INTERNATIONAL INC: $45,000 · Education+9 more: $137,466 · EducationMADRAIGOS INC: $428,826 · Youth DevelopmentOUR PLACE INC: $100,675 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF BROOKLYN INC: $28,000 · Youth Development+3 more: $39,000 · Youth Development
Other$5,225,932International$2,409,028Human Services$1,058,350Religion$975,200Health$834,837Education$802,466Youth Development$596,501

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TIFERES YISROEL: $650,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF BARZILAI: $565,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $550,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOPERATION HOPE INC: $509,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSHULAMITH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $500,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMADRAIGOS INC: $428,826 over 3y, 13% of budgetRELIGIOUS ZIONIST YOUTH MOVEMENT BNEI AKIVA OF THE US AND CANADA INC: $410,228 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetAISH GLOBAL INC: $350,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCONSORTIUM OF JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC: $289,600 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetTHE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $270,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $250,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetSHAVEI HEVRON INSTITUTIONS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $218,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAfrican-American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey: $214,645 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetOUR PLACE IN NY INC: $202,690 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBROOKLYN ALLIANCE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCHOOSE NEW JERSEY INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKIDS OF COURAGE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY IDENTITY INC: $137,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $118,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetAVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC: $108,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetOUR PLACE INC: $100,675 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSHAAREI SHMUOS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetCHAYAL EL CHAYAL INC: $93,610 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $93,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $80,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetJason Ards Christmas Crusade Inc: $80,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetTZUR FOUNDATION INC: $75,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHATZOLOH INCORPORATED DBA CHEVRA HATZALAH: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF BIKUR CHOLIM EZRAT ACHIM: $72,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStatewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of NJ: $70,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetNefesh B'Nefesh Jewish Souls United Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHELPING HAND FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BERGEN COUNTY INC: $54,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOORDINATING COUNCIL FOR THE JEWISH HOMELAND INC: $49,159 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $46,240 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVIRTUAL ENTERPRISES INTERNATIONAL INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF GENESIS JERUSALEM INC: $40,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $37,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHATZOLAH EMERGENCY AIR RESPONSE TEAM INC: $36,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHEVRA GEMACH INC: $32,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetEmpty Stocking Fund Inc: $32,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR JEWISH ADVANCEMENT AND RESEARCH INC: $30,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $29,040 over 2y, 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.

FjcJewish Communal FundUnited Jewish Appeal-…Alyad Foundation IncAstar Foundation IncThe Slomo and Cindy S…The Ojc FundGranit FoundationF G FoundationNational Society for …Associated Jewish Cha…Jewish Community Foun…
FjcNY54.5× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fjc · Jewish Communal Fund · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Alyad Foundation Inc · Astar Foundation Inc · The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation Inc · The Ojc Fund · Granit Foundation · F G Foundation · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 340%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Ywca Northern New Jersey: 42% of income from government
  • Diabetes Foundation Inc: 31% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Choose New Jersey Inc: 25% of income from government
  • The Morgan State University Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Nj: 6% of income from government
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Volunteer Center of Bergen County Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Community Loan Fund of New Jersey Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Legacy Treatment Services Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Services of Northern New Jersey Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rowan University Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
34get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Cross River Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cross River Community 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 646 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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