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David and Leah Brecher Family Foundation at a glance

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David and Leah Brecher Family 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.

$127k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
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 2025.

Religion$731kPhilanthropy$719kHuman Services$158kHealth$21kEducation$19kInternational$16kFood & Nutrition$3kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$11,550
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONG REB MEIR BAL HANES$60,000
Individual grant recipient$17,319
SHUL OF BAL HARBOUR INC$14,850
CHARITY LESS THEN 5000$11,550
YOUNG ISRAEL OF BAL HARBOR$8,100
YOUNG ISRAEL OF LAWRENCE-CEDARHURST$7,855
YESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY$7,500
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, $177k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SHALOM TASK FORCE INC: $2k → 17%ACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $4k → 14%OUR PLACE IN NEW YORK INC: $500 → 17%BONEI OLAM INC: $6k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER INC: $11k → 11%BONEI OLAM INC: $5k → 20%OHEL CHILDRENS HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $150k → 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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$844k · 11 repeat orgs$910k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
40

Total granted

$844k
$877k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
0%

Still filing today

18%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionHealthEducationInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • FC
    FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING
    2× · 2023–2024 · $300k
  • SO
    SHUL OF BAL HARBOUR INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $200k
  • CR
    CONG REB MEIR BAL HANES
    3× · 2023–2025 · $180k

Funded once

  • DA
    DAVID AND LEAH BRECHER CHARITY FUND - FIDELITY CHARITY
    one grant, 2022 · $418k
  • OC
    Ohel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +20%
  • CO
    CONGREGATION ORAYSA
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Tal Hashamayim Foundation
Religion
3
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
4
Tzemach Yifroch Foundation
—
5
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
6
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

—
7
Yad Yosef Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
9
Sherit Isroel
—
10
Mashiach Foundation
Arts & Culture
11
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Ohel Yakov Foundation
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tomchei Tzedaka Corp; the most unlike its peers is Shalvah Foundation. 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

17 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. 17 of the 54 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/17
Grantees still filing
8/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DAVID AND LEAH BRECHER CHARITY FUND - FIDELITY CHARITY: $418,000 · OtherDAVID AND LEAH BRECHER CHARITY FUND - FIDELITY CHARITYFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING: $299,500 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVINGSHUL OF BAL HARBOUR INC: $199,890 · OtherSHUL OF BAL HARBOUR INCCONG REB MEIR BAL HANES: $180,000 · OtherCONG REB MEIR BAL HANESCONGREGATION ORAYSA: $100,000 · OtherCONGREGATION ORAYSACHARITY LESS THEN 5000: $85,337 · OtherCHARITY LESS THEN 5000KOLLEL BOKER ZICHRON MEIR MOSHE INC: $55,000 · Other+33 more: $190,019 · Other+33 moreOhel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc: $150,000 · Human ServicesOhel Childr…Bonei Olam Inc: $11,000 · Human ServicesBonei Olam …AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $10,500 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FR…+3 more: $5,900 · Human ServicesNEFESH HACHAIM MENTORING INC: $12,000 · ReligionYESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $7,500 · ReligionTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $1,800 · Religion+1 more: $500 · ReligionCHAI LIFELINE INC: $10,000 · HealthMESIVTA NEZER HATORAH: $9,500 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MERKAZ CHASIDEI VIZNITZ INC: $5,000 · InternationalYAD ELKA INC: $2,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,527,746Human Services$177,400Religion$21,800Health$10,000Education$9,500International$5,000Food & Nutrition$2,500

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 budgetOhel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEFESH HACHAIM MENTORING INC: $12,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMESIVTA NEZER HATORAH: $9,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MERKAZ CHASIDEI VIZNITZ INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYAD ELKA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHALOM TASK FORCE INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHALVAH FOUNDATION: $1,800 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetMADRAIGOS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCAZ HATORAH OF WHITE OAK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOUR PLACE IN NY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Ohel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEFESH HACHAIM MENTORING INC ↗
  • Who funds Bonei Olam Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds MESIVTA NEZER HATORAH ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MERKAZ CHASIDEI VIZNITZ INC ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds YAD ELKA INC ↗
  • Who funds TOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP ↗

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 Ojc FundJewish Communal FundMaalotNational Society for …Otzar Hachesed Founda…Jewish Community Foun…Chasdei Yisroel IncAlyad Foundation IncZichron Chaim Charity…FjcDr Yashar and Mrs Per…Dbay Family Foundation
The Ojc FundNY28× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Maalot · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Otzar Hachesed Foundation Trust · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Chasdei Yisroel Inc · Alyad Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Fjc · Dr Yashar and Mrs Perie Hirshaut Family Foundation Inc · Dbay 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 David and Leah Brecher Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David and Leah Brecher Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Mesivta Nezer Hatorah: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get 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 · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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.
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Find your warmest path to David and Leah Brecher Family 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 54 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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