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Fogel Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
79% of Fogel Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Donors Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Fogel Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $50k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k5 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rav Shayala's Kitchen | $15,000 |
| Cheder Toras Zev | $13,000 |
| Beth Abba Trust | $6,800 |
| Lakewood Cheder School | $5,000 |
| Yeshiva Torah Vodaath | $5,000 |
| CONG AHAVAS TZEDAKA VCHESED | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of your 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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- CTCHEDER TORAS ZEV4× · 2020–2023 · $91k · revenue +57%
- LCLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC4× · 2018–2022 · $50k · revenue +54%
- BABETH ABA TRUST6× · 2017–2023 · $41k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $15k
- AFAmer Frieds of Zichron Eliyahu Incone grant, 2018 · $10k
- BMBais Medrash Ohr Chaimone grant, 2019 · $8k
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.
Provide a building for a religious school.
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
Religious School
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
A post-secondary school offering an educational program in talmudic study
Provide college level education and extensive background of jewish law and talmudic studies and rabbinical ordination.
Yeshiva toras aron is a religious elementary school providing quality education for grades k-8 for the children of lakewood nj.
To support schools of religious studies.
To expand torah education
Education
Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva Tiferes Boruch and the most unlike its peers is Reb Shayalas Kitchen. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 31 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
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 DONORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHEDER TORAS ZEV ↗
- Who funds LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ABA TRUST ↗
- Who funds Reb Shayalas Kitchen ↗
- Who funds Mosdos Rabbainu Nachum Meshadyk ↗
- Who funds KOLLEL CHAZON ISH ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA TIFERES BORUCH ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA RUACH HATORAH INC ↗
- Who funds Keren Acheinu Bnei Yisroel Inc ↗
- Who funds MENUCHA U'KEDUSHA INC ↗
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: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · The Setton Foundation · Toras Chesed Inc · The Adjmi-Dwek Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Donors Fund Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Fogel 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cheder Toras Zev — 22% of income from government
- Yeshiva Tiferes Boruch — 2% 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.
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