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Folger Family Foundation at a glance

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Folger 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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$249kEducation$12kHuman Services$9kArts & Culture$1kInternational$900Philanthropy$800Health$500Youth Development$500
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$41k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TORAS CHESED INC$10,200
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 (FY17–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SHOE DISCOUNT CORP: $1k → 20%Keren Aniyim: $500 → 20%MISASKIM CORP: $300 → 20%BETH OLOTH: $400 → 20%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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$214k · 29 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
44

Total granted

$214k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+25%

Still filing today

21%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • TC
    TORAS CHESED INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $19k · revenue +62%
  • BM
    BETH MEDRASH GOVOHA OF LAKEWOOD INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $4k · revenue +15%
  • KZ
    KEREN ZERAH KODESH INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue ×74 · 95% of their budget

Funded once

  • AZ
    AMIDEI ZION OF BOBOV INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • CL
    COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • CB
    CONGREGATION BNEI AVROHOM YAKOV
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.

Education
2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
Yeshiva Chayei Olam

Yeshiva chayei olam inc., was established for the purpose of having an orthodox jewish high school. the school teaches talumdic studies, talmudic jurasprudence, orthodox jewish ethics and the old testament. in addition, the school provides…

Education
4
Birchas Yaakov Kollel Inc

Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith

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5
Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc

Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students

Education
6
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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7
Toras Chaim Development Company Inc

Provide a building for a religious school.

Education
8
Yeshiva Keren Hatorah of Passaic- Clifton

To operate a high school offering religious instruction and general studies as well as a post high school program of talmudic studies. the school shall be run under the standards of orthodox jewish law and tradition.

Education
9
Yeshivas Toras Zev Inc

The purpose of this organization is to support indigent torah scholars and their families by providing stipends and additional funds at jewish holiday times.

Religion
10
Yeshivat Yagdil Torah Inc

Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.

Education
11
Yeshiva Knesseth Yisroel

To provide financial support to the yeshiva knesseth yisroel institution, its rabbis, and students, and lend support to other religious institutions in israel and around the world, with the goal of furthering jewish values among the jewish…

Philanthropy
12
Keren Avrum Yosef Inc

To provide assistance to jewish religious schools

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kollel Bais Yosef Inc; the most unlike its peers is Shoe Discount Corp. 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

22 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. 22 of the 73 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
19/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ZICHRON MENACHEM INC: $81,700 · OtherZICHRON MENACHEM INCYESHIVAS NOVOMINSK: $31,300 · OtherYESHIVAS NOVOMINSKAMIDEI ZION OF BOBOV INC: $25,000 · OtherAMIDEI ZION OF BOBOV INCIndividual grant recipient: $8,500 · Other+49 more: $89,770 · Other+49 moreTORAS CHESED INC: $19,200 · ReligionTORAS CHE…CHAYIM V CHESED: $2,000 · ReligionCHAYIM V …KOLLEL BAIS YOSEF INC: $1,000 · ReligionYESHIVA SHAAREI OORAH INC: $1,000 · Religion+1 more: $500 · ReligionBETH MEDRASH GOVOHA OF LAKEWOOD INC: $4,000 · EducationBAIS TOVA INC: $1,800 · EducationYESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM INC: $1,000 · EducationYESHIVA TORAS ARON INC: $1,000 · EducationYeshiva Tiferes Yisroel: $390 · EducationSHOE DISCOUNT CORP: $1,000 · Human ServicesKEREN ANIYIM INC: $500 · Human ServicesBETH OLOTH: $400 · Human ServicesMISASKIM CORP: $300 · Human ServicesGUARDIANS OF THE SICK INC: $500 · HealthAHAVAS CHAIM INC: $500 · HealthKIDS KICKING CANCER INC: $500 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAGDIL TORAH INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureLCBY INC: $800 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $600 · International
Other$236,270Religion$23,700Education$8,190Human Services$2,200Health$1,500Arts & Culture$1,000Philanthropy$800International$600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTORAS CHESED INC: $19,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBETH MEDRASH GOVOHA OF LAKEWOOD INC: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN ZERAH KODESH INC: $2,100 over 2y, 95% of budgetCHAYIM V CHESED: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAIS TOVA INC: $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHOE DISCOUNT CORP: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAGDIL TORAH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEYLIM LEV LACHIM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKOLLEL BAIS YOSEF INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYESHIVA TORAS ARON INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLCBY INC: $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUARDIANS OF THE SICK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAHAVAS CHAIM INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN ANIYIM INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS KICKING CANCER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH OLOTH: $400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYeshiva Tiferes Yisroel: $390 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISASKIM CORP: $300 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 TORAS CHESED INC ↗
  • Who funds BETH MEDRASH GOVOHA OF LAKEWOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds KEREN ZERAH KODESH INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAYIM V CHESED ↗
  • Who funds BAIS TOVA INC ↗
  • Who funds SHOE DISCOUNT CORP ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAGDIL TORAH INC ↗
  • Who funds PEYLIM LEV LACHIM ↗
  • Who funds KOLLEL BAIS YOSEF INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA TORAS ARON 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.

The Ojc FundJewish Communal FundNational Society for …Donors Fund IncTidewater Jewish Foun…Jewish Community Foun…Zichron Chaim Charity…Jewish Federation of …Jack Adjmi Family Fou…Eisenberg Family Foun…The Eisner Charitable…The Moshe and Frady K…
The Ojc FundNY40.1× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Donors Fund Inc · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Eisenberg Family Foundation Inc · The Eisner Charitable Foundation Inc · The Moshe and Frady Kalter Foundation Inc C/O Moshe Kalter

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Yeshiva Toras Aron Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Bais Tova Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Yeshiva Orchos Chaim Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 73 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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