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Grant Recommendation Fund
GRANT RECOMMENDATION FUND was formed in 2018 in the state of new york as a donor advised fund to assist donors in distributing charity.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 104 grants below total $2,387,964 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,220,279 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,832,315 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k27 grants · $195k
- $10k–50k65 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YESHIVA KEREN ORAH | $171,900 |
| CONGREGATION KOLLEL TIFERES SHLOMO | $121,200 |
| MOADIM UZMANIM | $120,000 |
| YESHIVA GEDOLAH ZICHRON MOSHE | $101,000 |
| CONGREGATION YESHIVA YAD MOSHE | $85,000 |
| ZICHRON MENACHEM | $84,800 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER INC | $78,860 |
| CONGREGATION AHAVAS TZDOKAH VCHESED | $65,600 |
| TIFERETH BNAI ZION | $60,100 |
| FO YESHIVA TEHILAS SHLOMO | $60,000 |
| UNITED CHARITY INSTITUTIONS OF | $50,000 |
| YESHIVAT NACHLAT HALVIIM | $50,000 |
| CONGREGATION FOREST GLEN INC | $48,600 |
| CONGREGATION ZICHRONE BINYAMIN | $43,600 |
| CONGREGATION ANSHI FALLSBURG | $40,600 |
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 (FY18–18, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Grants abroad, by region — $1.2M on the FY2018 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 Teaching
Religious School
Support of religious schools in Israel
Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.
Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.
Organization raises funds which are disbursed to religious schools of higher education and talmudic research
publish religious books
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva Ruach Chaim Inc and the most unlike its peers is Moadim Uzmanim. 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 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 102 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 Moadim Uzmanim ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YESHIVA TEHILAS SHLOMO INC ↗
- Who funds United Charity of Jerusalem ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT NACHLAT HALVIIM TRUST ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAS OHR V'DAAS ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA WOLOZIN BNEI BRAK ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAIS MEDRASH TAHAROS ↗
- Who funds ANIYEI YERUSHALAYIM INC ↗
- Who funds LEV BEREL INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA IMREI BINA INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Tiferet Tzion Inc ↗
- Who funds MACHON HARAV SHACH INC ↗
- Who funds Torah Center For Higher Rabbinical Studies Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLEL SHAAREI SIMCHA ↗
- Who funds ALUMNI OF THE RABBINICAL COLLEGE KNESSETH ISRAEL OF SLABODKA KOWNA ↗
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 · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Donors Fund Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Jmg Foundation · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Ohr Hakotel 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 Grant Recommendation Fund 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.
- Yeshiva Shaar Hatalmud — 6% 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.