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Davmarn 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$405k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.3MReligion$766kPhilanthropy$180kHealth$135kCivil Rights$100kArts & Culture$67kHuman Services$66kInternational$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $274k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $538k
  • $250k+1 grant · $405k
$9,515
Median grant
5
States reached
$-4839
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$405,000
WEST COAST KOLLEL$150,000
YULA HIGH SCHOOL$101,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$86,500
THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LA$75,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$75,000
MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE$50,000
GINDI MAIMONIDES ACADEMY$27,500
MAOR ACADEMY LA INC$25,000
KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF USC$25,000
BELEV ECHAD INC$25,000
CHABAD OF MALIBU$23,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC$22,000
YOUNG ISRAEL OF CENTURY CITY$21,075
BIKUR CHOLIM$18,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%A TORAH INFERTILITY MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: $500 → 20%BELEV ECHAD INC: $25k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 29 repeat orgs$285k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
24

Total granted

$2.2M
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+17%

Still filing today

52%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k 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
ReligionEducationInternationalArts & CultureHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • YH
    YULA HIGH SCHOOL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $287k · revenue +134%
  • NY
    New York University
    3× · 2022–2024 · $175k · revenue +21%
  • SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • YB
    YULA BOYS HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • AO
    AF OF GENESIS JERUSALEM
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • OM
    OPENDOR MEDIA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +13%
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
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
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2
Sherit Isroel
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3
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
4
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
5
Yad Laniyim
Philanthropy
6
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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7
Yeshiva Ketana of Los Angeles

The Organization is a school dedicated to providing an outstanding Judaic and general education in an environment that is consistent with this ideology. The Organization seeks to fulfill its mission by hiring the finest teachers and staff…

Education
8
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

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…

Education
10
Yeshivas Ohr Yissochor Academy Inc

To operate a school in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith.

Education
11
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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12
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is New York 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

36 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. 36 of the 74 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
22/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YESHIVA UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: $661,000 · OtherYESHIVA UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORKWEST COAST KOLLEL: $452,373 · OtherWEST COAST KOLLELNATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAEL: $76,050 · Other+47 more: $376,680 · Other+47 moreYULA HIGH SCHOOL: $286,500 · EducationYULA HIGH SCHOOLNew York University: $175,000 · EducationNew York UniversityUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $141,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CA…Maor Academy LA Inc: $25,000 · Education+1 more: $200 · EducationJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $180,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropySIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $58,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureGindi Maimonides Academy: $52,500 · ReligionTHE TORAH AND NATURE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · ReligionOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $25,000 · ReligionOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $10,000 · Religion+2 more: $2,000 · ReligionCHAI LIFELINE INC: $36,800 · HealthBIKUR CHOLIM: $33,000 · HealthSharsheret Inc: $12,000 · HealthAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $13,600 · InternationalEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $6,100 · InternationalBest Buddies International Inc: $2,000 · International
Other$1,566,103Education$628,200Philanthropy$181,500Arts & Culture$158,500Religion$119,500Health$81,800International$31,700

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 budgetYULA HIGH SCHOOL: $286,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $180,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $175,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $141,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $58,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $36,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM: $33,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE TORAH AND NATURE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetBELEV ECHAD INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMaor Academy LA Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $13,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREPUBLICAN JEWISH COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOUCH OF KINDNESS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $6,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTIKVAH-ETTA AND LAZEAR ISRAEL CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $5,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIBE MEDIA CORP: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR BIG KITCHEN LOS ANGELES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP HASC INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInner City Law Center: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA COUNTY DA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC: $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCK4ISRAEL INC: $500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC: $200 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 YULA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds Gindi Maimonides Academy ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM ↗
  • Who funds THE TORAH AND NATURE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BELEV ECHAD INC ↗
  • Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
  • Who funds Maor Academy LA Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC ↗
  • Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
  • Who funds OPENDOR MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds EMUNAH OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds REPUBLICAN JEWISH COALITION ↗
  • Who funds TOUCH OF KINDNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds TIKVAH-ETTA AND LAZEAR ISRAEL CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED ↗

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 Community Foun…Jack and Gitta Nagel …Lee and Anne Samson C…Jewish Federation Cou…Jewish Communal FundNatalie & Jonathan Ge…Ryzman Foundation IncThe Elishis Family Fo…California Community …Englanoff Family Foun…The Sassoon Family Fo…The Ejnra Foundation
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA43.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jack and Gitta Nagel Foundation · Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Jewish Communal Fund · Natalie & Jonathan Gerber Family Foundation · Ryzman Foundation Inc · The Elishis Family Foundation · California Community Foundation · Englanoff Family Foundation · The Sassoon Family Foundation · The Ejnra 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 Davmarn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Davmarn Foundation. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of 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 · 0–15%
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.

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 74 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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