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Hager 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.

$544k
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$3.5MInternational$2.3MCrime & Legal$1.5MHuman Services$679kHealth$321kPhilanthropy$286kEducation$277kArts & Culture$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $114k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $317k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $113k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$63,000
Lev Chabad Inc$50,000
Individual grant recipient$41,000
Friends of Nahal Herdi$35,000
American Friends of Sfath Emeth Yes$30,000
Minchas Asher$26,000
Yeshiva of the Telshe Alumni$25,000
Israeli American Council$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Tzohar Israel Foundation$18,000
American Friends of Zavat Chalav$18,000
Bais Shalom$15,000
Keren Hayeshivot Trust Yedidei Haar$15,000
Cong Tiferes Yaakov$12,000
Westside Kollel Los Angeles Interco$12,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Friendship Circle of Atlanta: $5k → 13%American friends of Unit 669 Inc: $5k → 16%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $113k → 20%LIFE'S DOOR: $10k → 20%Mothers of Crown Heights: $5k → 20%Ray of Hope: $15k → 14%ISRAEL MEDICAL FUND: $1k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $128k → 11%ZAKA SEARCH AND RESCUE INC: $10k → 17%ZAKA SEARCH AND RESCUE INC: $7k → 17%ZAKA SEARCH AND RESCUE INC: $5k → 17%Israeli American Council: $175k → 14%ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL: $150k → 14%ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL: $150k → 14%Israeli American Council: $25k → 14%ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL: $25k → 14%ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL: $25k → 14%ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL: $18k → 14%The Gitel Foundation: $5k → 14%Gitel Foundation: $2k → 14%AHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY: $2k → 20%A TIME: $1k → 20%AHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY: $5k → 20%Bonei Olam: $3k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $133k → 20%KAREN ACHIEZER: $12k → 14%Nachzik Chazak: $300 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
MD
DC
GA
FL
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.
$7.4M · 87 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

87 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 67 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
148

Total granted

$7.4M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
0%

Still filing today

44%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $358k 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
ReligionInternationalHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER
    3× · 2017–2020 · $374k · revenue +7%
  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    9× · 2017–2025 · $275k · revenue +145%
  • NY
    NEFESH YEHUDIE INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • JC
    Jewish Community Foundation-Moshe
    one grant, 2024 · $180k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAMIR MEDICAL
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • PC
    Paamonim Charity Organization
    one grant, 2023 · $60k
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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3
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
4
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
5
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
6
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
7
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
8
American Friends of Kehillas Shivtei Yeshurun Inc

Assistance to establish a community in ramat beit shemesh, israel, founded upon torah principles, prayer, justice, charity and kindness to all peoples. to encourage and promote jewish religious activities.

Religion
9
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
10
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Yeshivat Nachalat Yossef

The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.

Religion
12
Chabad Lametayel Inc

encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Us Friends of Yad Ezrah Inc; the most unlike its peers is Gitel Foundation. 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

103 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. 103 of the 268 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)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/103
Grantees still filing
61/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDF: $1,484,350 · OtherFIDFIndividual grant recipient: $430,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOHR ELIYAHU ACADEMY: $363,000 · OtherOHR ELIYAHU ACADEMYIndividual grant recipient: $283,000 · OtherYESHIVA GEDOLAH OF LA: $268,000 · Other+127 more: $3,499,771 · Other+127 moreISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $568,000 · Human ServicesISRAELI-AME…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $374,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FR…+9 more: $88,200 · Human Services+9 morePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $918,500 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL…FRIENDS OF YESHIVA TEHILAS SHLOMO INC: $43,500 · Philanthropy+4 more: $37,600 · PhilanthropyCentral Fund of Israel: $274,560 · InternationalCentral Fu…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SULAM INC: $255,000 · InternationalAMERICAN F…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBRON YESHIVA IN JERUSALEM INC: $94,000 · InternationalAMERICAN F…FRIENDS OF ELNET: $75,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $40,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI: $40,000 · InternationalEZER MIZION: $35,000 · International+13 more: $183,413 · International+13 moreNEFESH YEHUDIE INC: $205,000 · ReligionFRIENDS OF DARCHEI ROCHEL INC: $105,000 · ReligionMERKAZ HATORAH COMMUNITY KOLLEL: $49,000 · ReligionMINCHAS ASHER FOUNDATION: $35,000 · ReligionAISH TAMID OF LOS ANGELES: $28,600 · Religion+12 more: $131,000 · ReligionBIKUR CHOLIM: $77,500 · HealthSTAND BY ME INC: $60,000 · HealthLEV CHABAD INC: $50,000 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $20,000 · HealthTexas Israel Technology Partnership Inc: $10,000 · HealthLANIADO DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $10,000 · HealthMESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $55,000 · EducationNetzach Educational Network Inc: $50,000 · EducationKEREN YEHOSHUA V'YISROEL: $33,000 · EducationCHARITYEX FOUNDATION INC: $28,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RCT INC: $17,000 · EducationMERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationHERITAGE RETREATS INC: $7,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · Education
Other$6,328,621Human Services$1,030,200Philanthropy$999,600International$996,973Religion$553,600Health$227,500Education$205,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $918,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $568,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $374,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $274,560 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SULAM INC: $255,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetNEFESH YEHUDIE INC: $205,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetPEYLIM LEV LACHIM: $110,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF DARCHEI ROCHEL INC: $105,000 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBRON YESHIVA IN JERUSALEM INC: $94,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC: $85,441 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM: $77,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET: $75,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSTAND BY ME INC: $60,000 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetMESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $55,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNetzach Educational Network Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMERKAZ HATORAH COMMUNITY KOLLEL: $49,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF YESHIVA TEHILAS SHLOMO INC: $43,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOUR BIG KITCHEN LOS ANGELES: $40,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI: $40,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMINCHAS ASHER FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetEZER MIZION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetKEREN YEHOSHUA V'YISROEL: $33,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LUBAVITCH: $32,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMAGEN AM USA INC: $32,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAISH TAMID OF LOS ANGELES: $28,600 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCHARITYEX FOUNDATION INC: $28,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBinyamin Fund Inc DBA The Heart of Israel: $23,613 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $22,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIsrael Magen Fund Inc: $22,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DERECH EMUNAH: $20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Ayelet Hashachar: $18,600 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR: $18,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RCT INC: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBNEI DAVID FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEDER AVOS JEWISH HERITAGE GROUP INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRay Of Hope Mentoring Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAAGALIM INC: $13,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetKeren Achiezer Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF PANIM EL PANIM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTORAH LIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLIFE'S DOOR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERETZ HEMDAH: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SULAM INC ↗
  • Who funds NEFESH YEHUDIE INC ↗
  • Who funds PEYLIM LEV LACHIM ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF DARCHEI ROCHEL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBRON YESHIVA IN JERUSALEM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds STAND BY ME INC ↗
  • Who funds MESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds Netzach Educational Network Inc ↗
  • Who funds LEV CHABAD 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.

Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Communal FundAssociated Jewish Cha…The Ojc FundGoldner Family Founda…Jack Adjmi Family Fou…Chavi F Hertz Foundat…Ryzman Foundation IncThe Elishis Family Fo…Lee and Anne Samson C…The Dennis Berman Fam…The Jmg Foundation
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA70.2× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Communal Fund · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Ojc Fund · Goldner Family Foundation Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Chavi F Hertz Foundation Inc · Ryzman Foundation Inc · The Elishis Family Foundation · Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation · The Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc · The Jmg Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 190%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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 268 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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