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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.

$808k
Granted FY2024still arriving
196
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$100k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$1.4MHuman Services$867kEducation$821kHealth$720kInternational$333kArts & Culture$251kCivil Rights$110kPhilanthropy$87kOther$0
02FY2024 · 196 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k171 grants · $266k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $266k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $276k
$1,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI$10,000
ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA$10,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FND$10,000
GAN ISRAEL CHABAD INC$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PALS PROGRAMS: $1k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHER YEHUDI: $4k → 6%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $13k → 11%KAVOD: $28k → 17%ALL4ISRAEL: $10k → 7%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $13k → 11%KAVOD: $19k → 17%KAVOD: $25k → 12%FUCCILE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%KAVOD: $18k → 17%KAVOD: $18k → 12%KAVOD: $18k → 17%ALL4ISRAEL: $10k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHER YEHUDI: $2k → 6%ISRAEL MAGEN FUND: $10k → 7%ISRAEL MAGEN FUND: $10k → 7%ALL4ISRAEL: $30k → 7%ALL4ISRAEL: $10k → 7%JOIN ISRAEL: $1k → 6%ALL4ISRAEL: $10k → 7%RENEWAL OF LIFE INC: $1k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $4k → 20%COMMITTEE FOR THE RESCUE OF ISRAEL'S BABIES: $720 → 20%FRIENDS OF KETER TORAH: $1k → 20%ISRAEL MAGEN FUND: $10k → 14%KEN'S KREW INC: $5k → 17%JCHAI: $3k → 10%JCHAI: $1k → 10%JCHAI: $1k → 10%JCHAI: $1k → 10%JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $1k → 10%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $127k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $110k → 7%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED IN NEW YORK: $1k → 17%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $54k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $50k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $50k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY JRA: $50k → 7%JOIN ISRAEL: $2k → 17%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $50k → 7%JOIN ISRAEL: $1k → 17%JOIN ISRAEL: $1k → 17%OUR PLACE IN NEW YORK: $1k → 17%OUR PLACE IN NEW YORK: $1k → 17%OUR PLACE IN NEW YORK: $680 → 17%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY JRA: $1k → 7%BIKKUR CHOLIM OF PHILADELPHIA: $3k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 208 repeat orgs$556k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

208
232

Total granted

$4.4M
$420k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+21%

Still filing today

42%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationReligionPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $492k · revenue +9%
  • MH
    MESIVTA HIGH SCHOOL OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA
    3× · 2019–2021 · $336k · revenue +48%
  • K
    KAVOD
    6× · 2019–2024 · $126k · revenue +275%

Funded once

  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HEALTH
    one grant, 2020 · $33k
  • YR
    YIML RABBI'S DISCRETIONARY FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $17k
  • YI
    YOUNG ISRAEL OF CHERRY HILL-CHESSED FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
University of Judaism Foundation
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3
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
4
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
5
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
6
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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7
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
8
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
9
The Keren Rachaim Fund
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10
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

184 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. 184 of the 490 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)
42
Early backer (in before they grew)
179/184
Grantees still filing
127/184
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MINDING YOUR MIND FOUNDATION: $442,000 · OtherMINDING YOUR MIND FOUNDATIONMESIVTA HIGH SCHOOL OF GREATER PHILA: $361,800 · OtherMESIVTA HIGH SCHOOL OF GREATER PHILAGUIDELINE SERVICES-MENACHEM SCHMIDT: $145,543 · OtherGUIDELINE SERVICES-MENACHEM SCHMIDTDAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $88,476 · Other+140 more: $1,498,906 · Other+140 moreJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $491,700 · Human ServicesJEWISH RELIEF AGENC…KAVOD: $126,000 · Human ServicesKAVODALL 4 ISRAEL INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesALL 4 ISRAEL INCMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesIsrael Magen Fund Inc: $30,000 · Human Services+8 more: $44,584 · Human Services+8 moreMESIVTA HIGH SCHOOL OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $336,370 · EducationMESIVTA HIGH …MORRIS AND ROSE CASKEY TORAH ACADEMY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $86,877 · EducationMORRIS AND RO…IS KOSLOFF TORAH ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $62,575 · EducationIS KOSLOFF TO…KOHELET YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL INC: $21,053 · Education+7 more: $42,723 · Education+7 moreThe Chevra Inc: $185,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $121,800 · Arts & CultureAUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $4,500 · Arts & CultureCentral Fund of Israel: $88,380 · InternationalFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $30,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $14,400 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $10,200 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $10,000 · InternationalAdi Israel Foundation Inc: $8,000 · InternationalCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $6,600 · International+6 more: $29,200 · InternationalJewish Heritage Programs: $50,800 · ReligionZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA: $31,360 · ReligionOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $16,664 · ReligionPARTNERS IN TORAH: $15,001 · ReligionAmerican Friends of Darche Noam Inc - David Shapell College of Jewish Studies: $13,040 · ReligionJEWISH LEARNING VENTURE: $7,618 · ReligionKOLEL TORAH INC: $6,800 · Religion+2 more: $8,200 · ReligionGan Israel Chabad Inc: $61,800 · Recreation & SportsRAYMOND AND MIRIAM KLEIN JCC (D/B/A KLEINLIFE): $58,860 · Recreation & SportsDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC: $15,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $3,334 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,536,725Human Services$807,284Education$549,598Arts & Culture$351,300International$196,780Religion$149,483Recreation & Sports$138,994

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $491,700 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetMESIVTA HIGH SCHOOL OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $336,370 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetThe Chevra Inc: $185,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetKAVOD: $126,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $121,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $88,380 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMORRIS AND ROSE CASKEY TORAH ACADEMY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $86,877 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetALL 4 ISRAEL INC: $80,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetIS KOSLOFF TORAH ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $62,575 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGan Israel Chabad Inc: $61,800 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetRAYMOND AND MIRIAM KLEIN JCC (D/B/A KLEINLIFE): $58,860 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetJewish Heritage Programs: $50,800 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA: $31,360 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Magen Fund Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCHASDEI ELIYAHU: $24,236 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetKOHELET YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL INC: $21,053 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $17,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $16,664 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN TORAH: $15,001 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOrot: $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $14,972 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $14,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Friends of Darche Noam Inc - David Shapell College of Jewish Studies: $13,040 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC: $12,160 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF BROOKLYN INC: $11,800 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMEOR INC: $11,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $10,318 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL CONSENSUS PROJECT INC: $10,287 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $10,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEREN GEMILAS CHASODIM FOUNDATION CO READ PROPERTY GROUP: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc: $9,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $9,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAdi Israel Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH LEARNING VENTURE: $7,618 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $7,320 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKOLEL TORAH INC: $6,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $6,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KEREN MALKI INC: $6,400 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICANS FOR PEACE AND TOLERANCE INC: $6,400 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetYAD EZRA V'SHULAMIT: $6,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHER YEHUDI: $6,100 over 2y, 0.7% 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 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 ↗

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 Federation of …Tzedakah FoundationKatz Family Charitabl…The Snider FoundationThe Saramar Charitabl…Jewish Communal FundThe Specter FoundationFoundation for Jewish…Jewish Community Foun…The Ojc FundSamuel D Cozen Memori…The Edwin J and Barba…
Jewish Federation of Greater PhiladelphiaPA74.8× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 490 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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$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