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David & Ruth Moskowitz Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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David & Ruth Moskowitz Family Charitable Foundation

Further the charitable, educational, and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland.

$111k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

60% of David & Ruth Moskowitz Family Charitable Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Cleveland, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’18
1
’19
2
’21
2
’22
3
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$284kReligion$47kInternational$27kEducation$25kFood & Nutrition$9k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $88,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $111,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $22,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND$53,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$20,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO$8,500
RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF TELSHE INC$7,000
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION: $7k → 17%CHABAD LUBAVITCH JEWISH CENTER OF MARION COUNTY INC: $6k → 9%PALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INC: $6k → 11%RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF TELSHE INC: $7k → 9%HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $25k → 17%RABINICAL COLLEGE OF TELSHE INC: $7k → 9%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $85k → 17%RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF TELSHE INC: $7k → 9%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $54k → 17%RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF TELSHE INC: $7k → 9%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $53k → 17%RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF TELSHE INC: $7k → 9%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $50k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $42k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $9k → 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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 72% of David & Ruth Moskowitz Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 29%.

David & Ruth Moskowitz Family Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 13% 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 field
05the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 8 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $284,150 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELANDRABBINICAL COLLEGE OF TELSHE INC: $35,000 · OtherRABBINICAL COLLEGE O…HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $25,000 · OtherHEBREW ACADEMY OF CL…PALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INC: $6,000 · OtherPALM BEACH ORTHODOX …CHABAD LUBAVITCH JEWISH CENTER OF MARION COUNTY INC: $6,000 · OtherCHABAD LUBAVITCH JEW…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $20,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $7,000 · InternationalJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $8,500 · Religion
Philanthropy$284,150Other$72,000International$27,000Religion$8,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $284,150 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRABBINICAL COLLEGE OF TELSHE INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $7,000 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 & Ruth Moskowitz Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David & Ruth Moskowitz Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to David & Ruth Moskowitz Family Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to David & Ruth Moskowitz Family Charitable 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 8 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 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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