How much does E R G Foundation give?

E R G Foundation reported 155 grants totaling $1,177,234 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 122 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does E R G Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (29%), Health (6%), Human Services (6%).

Who are E R G Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Recorded Talmud ($254k), Friends of United Hatzalah Inc ($243k), Reach for the Stars Learning Center ($210k).

Does E R G Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does E R G Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as E R G Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Isaac & Marjorie Gindi Foundation Inc, Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc, The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc.

Where is E R G Foundation based?

E R G Foundation is based in NY.

E R G Foundation

E R G Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

E R G 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.

$1.2M

Granted FY2024still arriving

155

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$250k

Largest

01What it funds

0178% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$1.7MHealth$369kHuman Services$362kArts & Culture$279kEducation$243kInternational$199kFood & Nutrition$162kPhilanthropy$74kOther$0

02FY2024 · 155 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k124 grants · $197k
$10k–50k28 grants · $475k
$50k–250k2 grants · $255k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$1,300

Median grant

States reached

$5.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$250,000
REACH FOR THE STARS LEARING CENTER	$150,000
Individual grant recipient	$105,094
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH	$45,000
Individual grant recipient	$37,655
THE SEPHARDIC FOOD FUND	$34,285
MATTEH MOSHE	$26,000
ORTHODOX UNION	$26,000
MEGAN DAVID YESHIVAH	$25,400
YAD YOSEF	$20,000
RENEWAL	$18,900
AIEF	$18,750
YDE SCHOOL	$18,200
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT	$18,000
MEGAN DAVID YESHIVAH	$18,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $214k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.3M · 125 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

125 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2024, 66 since wound down; 88 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

125

270

Total granted

$4.3M

$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

Still filing today

42%

14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $356k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

ReligionHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyInternationalArts & CultureOther

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

TR
THE RECORDED TALMUD
5× · 2018–2023 · $254k · revenue +4%
FO
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $243k · revenue +274%
RF
REACH FOR THE STARS LEARNING CENTER
2× · 2018–2024 · $210k · revenue +91%

Funded once

C2
CENTURY 21 ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2020 · $65k · revenue -67%
RF
RSEARCH FOR THE STARS LEARNING CENTER
one grant, 2019 · $50k
RF
Reach for the Stars
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -74%

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.

Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

Sherit Isroel

—

Tal Hashamayim Foundation

Religion

American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International

Yad Yosef Foundation

Philanthropy

The Keren Rachaim Fund

—

University of Judaism Foundation

—

American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah

—

Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation

Philanthropy

Tzemach Yifroch Foundation

—

Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc

Philanthropy

American Friends of Yeshivat Nachalat Yossef

The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.

Religion

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed Israel Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Express 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

120 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. 120 of the 484 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

116/120

Grantees still filing

68/120

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,999,312Education$603,422Arts & Culture$274,500Youth Development$208,182Human Services$207,308Food & Nutrition$126,332International$114,001

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

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.

Isaac & Marjorie Gindi Foundation IncNY132.2× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Isaac & Marjorie Gindi Foundation Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · The Amin and Lillian Adjmi Foundation · Ralph J Harary Foundation Inc · The Ralph S Gindi Family Foundation · Cabasso Family Foundation · The Setton Foundation · Chehebar Family Foundation · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · I Chera & Sons Foundation Inc · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc

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 E R G Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from E R G Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

18get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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 E R G Foundation?

Find your warmest path to E R G 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home