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Erlbaum Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k171 grants · $266k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $266k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $276k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MESIVTA HIGH SCHOOL OF GREATER PHILA | $100,000 |
| MINDING YOUR MIND FOUNDATION | $76,000 |
| JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY JRA | $50,000 |
| CHEVRA THE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| MESIVTA HIGH SCHOOL OF GREATER PHILA | $25,000 |
| CANCER RESEARCH FUND | $20,000 |
| KAVOD | $18,000 |
| CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL THE | $12,500 |
| CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL THE | $12,500 |
| ASCENT | $12,500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FND | $10,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF BROOKLYN | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ISRAEL MAGEN FUND | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $795k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
208 repeat relationships — 106 still active in FY2024, 102 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY6× · 2019–2024 · $492k · revenue +9%- MHMESIVTA HIGH SCHOOL OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA3× · 2019–2021 · $336k · revenue +48%
- KKAVOD6× · 2019–2024 · $126k · revenue +275%
Funded once
- NLNYU LANGONE HEALTHone grant, 2020 · $33k
- YRYIML RABBI'S DISCRETIONARY FUNDone grant, 2022 · $17k
- DHDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -60%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Religious School
To further jewish education in israel
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samuel D Cozen Memorial Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
184 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 184 of the 490 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
- Who funds MESIVTA HIGH SCHOOL OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds The Chevra Inc ↗
- Who funds KAVOD ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds MORRIS AND ROSE CASKEY TORAH ACADEMY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds ALL 4 ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds IS KOSLOFF TORAH ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds Gan Israel Chabad Inc ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND AND MIRIAM KLEIN JCC (D/B/A KLEINLIFE) ↗
- Who funds Jewish Heritage Programs ↗
- Who funds MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds Israel Magen Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds CHASDEI ELIYAHU ↗
- Who funds KOHELET YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Tzedakah Foundation · Katz Family Charitable Trust · The Snider Foundation · The Saramar Charitable Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Specter Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Day Schools of Greater Philadelphia · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ojc Fund · Samuel D Cozen Memorial Fund · The Edwin J and Barbara R Berkowitz Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Erlbaum Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
- Yeshiva Nesivos Hatorah Inc — 3% of income from government
- Young Israel of Margate — 3% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.