· Private foundation
Gretel Bloch Charitable Trust
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k20 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIV | $15,300 |
| NA'AMAT USA | $10,000 |
| NEVE MICHAEL CHILDREN'S VILLAGE | $6,250 |
| HILLEL AT MIAMI UNIVERSITY | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CLEVELAND KOSHER FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED MAGEN DAVID | $5,000 |
| MALTZ MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE | $3,875 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $3,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,303 |
| KOLLEL YAD CHIAM MORDECHAI | $3,000 |
| OB ZEDEK CEDAR SINAI CONGREGATION | $2,500 |
| FAIRMOUNT TEMPLE MENS BROTHERHOOD | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of your 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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
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 FY2021, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- NMNeve Michael Childrens Village Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $11k · revenue +10%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · revenue +39%- TMThe Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage2× · 2020–2021 · $6k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- JFJOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +130%
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTHone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +13%
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.
The mission of fuchs mizrachi school is to educate each child in the orthodox jewish religious zionist tradition, imbued with the love of g-d, torah, people and the land of israel.
Hillel at Miami University, the center of Jewish life on campus, seeks to engage, connect, and empower students to explore their Jewish identity creating a vibrant Jewish community and inspiring the next generation of Jewish leaders.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Menorah Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Neve Michael Childrens Village Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 25 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 Neve Michael Childrens Village Inc ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage ↗
- Who funds HEIGHTS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MENORAH PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS 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 Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Miller Family Foundation · The Kline Family Foundation · Gail and Sheldon Goodman Family Foundation · The Horowitz Ratner Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Gretel Bloch Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.