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Damar Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$207k
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0175% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$259kHuman Services$154kPhilanthropy$87kInternational$78kHealth$69kEducation$68kArts & Culture$52kFood & Nutrition$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k51 grants · $120k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $86k
$2,200
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$28,400
CHAI LIFELINE$18,000
MANHATTAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE$10,000
FRIENDS OF BET KENESSET HANSAI$10,000
CHASDEI YISOREL$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CONGREGATION FUND OF ISRAEL SOUP KITCHEN$8,000
MIGDAL OHR$7,000
SAMCHAINU$6,800
ACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER$6,000
HEBREW ACADEMY OF SPECIAL CHILDREN$5,400
ISRAEL CHESSED CENTER$5,100
KEREN OR$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CONGREGATION AISH CHODESH$5,000
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 (FY19–24, $60k) 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. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AVIGDOR'S HELPING HAND: $10k → 13%BIKUR CHOLIM STATEN ISLAND: $500 → 11%AVIGDOR'S HELPING HAND: $1k → 13%RAJE USA: $1k → 20%SHALOM TASK FORCE: $5k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHER YEHUDA: $1k → 6%ACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 6%ACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 6%ACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 6%ACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 6%ACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 6%KULANU ACADEMY: $2k → 6%MATAN B'SETER BAMBI: $6k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $3k → 20%KULANU ACADEMY: $800 → 6%BONEI OLAM: $3k → 20%MATAN B'SETER BAMBI: $1k → 20%MATAN B'SETER BAMBI: $1k → 20%MATAN B'SETER BAMBI: $1k → 20%MATAN B'SETER BAMBI: $500 → 20%BONEI OLAM: $500 → 20%KEREN CHESSED CHOSSON V'KALLAH: $500 → 20%WE LOVE TO HELP: $100 → 20%WE LOVE TO HELP: $100 → 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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$753k · 60 repeat orgs$260k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
80

Total granted

$753k
$179k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+12%

Still filing today

28%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthReligionOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +63%
  • CY
    CHASDEI YISROEL INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +59%
  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    4× · 2021–2024 · $29k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • KZ
    KAHAL ZICHRON MAYER MOSHE
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • TM
    THE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue -26%
  • R
    RENEWAL
    one grant, 2022 · $18k
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
Ohr Meir Ubracha

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

Philanthropy
2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
Sherit Isroel
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4
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

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

Religion
5
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
6
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
7
American Friends of Yeshiva High School of Kiryat Arba Inc

Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide educational and social improvement for the children of kiryat arba, israel.

Philanthropy
8
American Friends of Chasdei Lev

To provide clothing and food, distribute funds and pay third-party bills to and for the benefit of needy individuals and families, in a dignified manner, through chasdei lev.

Religion
9
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
10
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

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

Education
11
Partners Charity Fund for Israel

To support charitable organization and programs providing food, clothing and financial aid to indigent individuals and families in financial distress.

Philanthropy
12
Yeshivah Beth Israel Tifereth Menachem Foundation

To provide support to jewish religious education in israel and around the world, and provide financial assistance to and on behalf of yeshivah beth israel tifereth menachem.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chasdei Yisroel Inc; the most unlike its peers is Yeshiva University. 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, 2017–2025.

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. 41 of the 165 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
20/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $88,318 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYESHIVA UNIVERSITY WOMENS ORGANIZATION: $75,000 · OtherYESHIVA UNIVERSITY WOMENS ORGANIZATIONMIGDAL OHR: $37,000 · OtherMANHATTAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE SYNAGOGUE: $30,000 · OtherYESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $26,000 · OtherKAHAL ZICHRON MAYER MOSHE: $25,000 · OtherSAMCHAINU INC: $25,400 · Other+128 more: $401,128 · Other+128 moreACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $23,500 · Human ServicesAVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesMATAN B'SETER BAMBIINC: $9,500 · Human ServicesBonei Olam Inc: $5,500 · Human ServicesSHALOM TASK FORCE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesKULANU ACADEMY INC: $2,600 · Human Services+5 more: $3,200 · Human ServicesCentral Fund of Israel: $29,075 · InternationalEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC: $21,893 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ACHY: $3,600 · InternationalFRIENDS OF MISHTERET YISRAEL: $2,500 · International+2 more: $1,500 · InternationalBIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN INC: $20,018 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $18,500 · HealthTHE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATION: $18,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureCHASDEI YISROEL INC: $45,280 · Philanthropy+1 more: $180 · PhilanthropyYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $18,704 · EducationKEREN OR INC: $5,000 · EducationHERITAGE RETREATS INC: $4,600 · EducationBNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $2,160 · Education+1 more: $500 · Education
Other$707,846Human Services$60,300International$58,568Health$57,518Arts & Culture$51,500Philanthropy$45,460Education$30,964

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 budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHASDEI YISROEL INC: $45,280 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $29,075 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAMCHAINU INC: $25,400 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $23,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC: $21,893 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN INC: $20,018 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $18,704 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $18,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMATAN B'SETER BAMBIINC: $9,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE LEON MAYER FUND INC: $6,860 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN OR INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHALOM TASK FORCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHERITAGE RETREATS INC: $4,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ACHY: $3,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKULANU ACADEMY INC: $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MISHTERET YISRAEL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $2,160 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $1,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN HASHVIIS INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH INTERNATIONAL CONNECTION NY INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHER YEHUDI: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADRAIGOS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNTAIN OF KINDNESS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetONE FAMILY FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR THE RESOLUTION OF AGUNOT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAJE-USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT INSPIRE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBikur Cholim of Staten Island Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKeren Simchas Chosson Ve Kallah: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY CHILDRENS HELP ORGANIZATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAIS YAAKOV ATERES MIRIAM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWE LOVE TO HELP: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHASDEI BENTZION INC: $180 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.

  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds CHASDEI YISROEL INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds SAMCHAINU INC ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EMUNAH OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC ↗
  • Who funds MATAN B'SETER BAMBIINC ↗
  • Who funds THE LEON MAYER FUND INC ↗

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 FundCross River Community…Ip FoundationUnited Jewish Appeal-…Hyman & Ann Arbesfeld…FjcZichron Chaim Charity…Pbc Foundation IncCdl Foundation IncRoyal Heritage Founda…Md Friedman Family Fo…
Jewish Communal FundNY42.4× affinity32 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 · Cross River Community Foundation · Ip Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Hyman & Ann Arbesfeld Foundation Inc · Fjc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Pbc Foundation Inc · Cdl Foundation Inc · Royal Heritage Foundation Inc · Md Friedman Family Foundation

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 Damar Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Damar 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%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Damar Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Damar Foundation Inc 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 165 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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