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Gary Aidekman 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.

$140k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

International$415kPhilanthropy$170kReligion$145kEducation$115kFood & Nutrition$109kHuman Services$45kRecreation & Sports$41kArts & Culture$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE$65,000
TEMPLE B'NAI OR$25,000
THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON$20,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST$20,000
CITY HARVEST$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JEWISH SERVICE FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED OF METROWEST INC: $25k → 16%JESPY HOUSE: $20k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$870k · 8 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$870k
$155k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+49%

Still filing today

38%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionEducationHealthOther

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

  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $415k · revenue +24%
  • THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON
    5× · 2019–2024 · $115k · revenue +26%
  • CITY HARVEST INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $109k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • JS
    JEWISH SERVICE FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED OF METROWEST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +122%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF METROWEST
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

2
Jewish Association for Developmental Disabilities Inc

To provide kosher, nonsectarian living arrangements for individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities.

Human Services
3
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
4
Joint Israel

To help build a more just society by creating model programs for disadvantaged populations. The activities focus primarily on helping Israel overcome the challenges facing five groups (cont. on sched O):

International
5
Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…

Health
6
Jewish Senior Life

To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.

Religion
7
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
8
Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies Inc

The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…

Human Services
9
Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School

Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…

10
Hebrew Health Care Inc

The mission of hebrew health care is to provide highly personalized quality programs and services to the seniors of our community. we assure dignified, informed, quality care to all regardless of source of payment for services. (see…

Health
11
Jewish Family Service

Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…

12
Jewish Home At Home Inc

Providing charitable services to the elderly or infirm to assist them to continue to reside in their home environment.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj and the most unlike its peers is City Harvest Inc. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $415,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution …JEWISH COMM FOUNDATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $67,500 · OtherJEWISH COMM FOUNDATION OF GREAT…TEMPLE B'NAI OR — $52,500 · OtherTEMPLE B'NAI ORURJ CAMP HARLAM — $41,000 · OtherURJ CAMP HARLAMMEMORIAL FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CULTURE FELLOWSHIPS — $40,000 · OtherMEMORIAL FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH …ITREK INC — $30,000 · OtherITREK INCJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF METROWEST — $25,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF METRO…Individual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFRIENDS OF THE IMPJ — $20,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE IMPJRutgers Hillel Corporation — $15,000 · Other+2 more — $20,000 · Other+2 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $169,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATIO…THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON — $115,000 · EducationTHE HUN SC…CITY HARVEST INC — $108,500 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVE…JEWISH SERVICE FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED OF METROWEST INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesJESPY HOUSE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesDaughters of Israel Inc — $10,000 · Health
International$415,000Other$331,000Philanthropy$169,500Education$115,000Food & Nutrition$108,500Human Services$45,000Health$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $415,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $169,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON — $115,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $108,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJESPY HOUSE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRutgers Hillel Corporation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDaughters of Israel Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ
  • Who funds THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC
  • Who funds JEWISH SERVICE FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED OF METROWEST INC
  • Who funds JESPY HOUSE INC
  • Who funds Rutgers Hillel Corporation
  • Who funds Daughters of Israel 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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Gary Aidekman 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Jespy House Inc2% of income from government
  • The Hun School of Princeton0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report 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, FY2025

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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How do I get to Gary Aidekman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gary Aidekman Family 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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