· Public charity
Hands on Tzedakah Inc
To reach out to individuals in need by supporting programs that fall below the radar screen of traditional funding.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $259,281 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,985,005 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,725,724 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $163k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $96k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $96,115 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CAREGIVING YOUTH | $40,689 |
| MATANYA'S HOPE | $37,215 |
| SWEET DREAM MAKERS INC | $30,777 |
| THE VOLEN CENTER | $19,500 |
| MILAGRO CENTER | $14,985 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $10,000 |
| JUST IMAGINE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $551k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $1.7M on the FY2025 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.
Stated purpose: MEALS-POOR · SUPPLIES/ASSISTANCE · FOOD/AID/SUPPLIES
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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- RNRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $936k · revenue +59%
- MFMILAGRO FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $219k · revenue +51%
- AAAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CAREGIVING YOUTH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $194k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- BTBNAI TORAH CONGREGATIONone grant, 2017 · $103k
- SGST GREGORYS EPISCOPAL CHURCH INC2× · 2020–2025 · $27k
- JJARCone grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue -19%
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.
Miami jewish health systems, inc. was incorporated to provide shelter for the elderly and develop social & health programs relating to their care. in addition, research & educational programs are conducted for the elderly to enhance their…
Jewish family services of greater orlando (jfs orlando) provides services to stabilize individuals and families in crisis and enhances the quality of life across generations to all members of the central florida community. annually, our…
The mission of the greater miami jewish federation is to mobilize human and financial resources to care for those in need, strengthen jewish life and advance the unity, values and shared purpose of the jewish people in miami, in israel and…
To provide, and guide other schools in providing, an education in both jewish and secular studies that meet the needs of the invididual student, and which empowers each student to reach his/her highest level of independent and…
The mission of ferd & gladys alpert jewish family & children's service of palm beach county, inc. is to serve the community by: - providing a range of needed social services to strengthen individuals and families. - participating in…
Jewish family home care, inc. is dedicated to empowering individuals, strengthening older adults and families, and protecting the vulnerable by providing exceptional home care and nursing assessments services guided by jewish values,…
Mission: masada home care, inc. provides home health care services to elderly and disabled persons residing in miami-dade county. our goal is to assist our clients in becoming as independent as possible while enjoying the many benefits…
The soref jcc is a nonprofit organization which contributes to the welfare of the entire community by providing a center for cultural, educational, recreational, and social services, while continuing to preserve jewish tradition and values.
Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)
Miami children's museum is a non-profit educational institution, which meets the needs of all children in our multicultural community. visitors of all ages are encouraged to play together, learn, imagine, and create. the museum offers…
JFCS strengthens individuals and families by empowering people to care for themselves and others. This is accomplished through a wide range of high quality social services and programs designed to assist families with many of life's…
The friedberg jewish community center promotes jewish life and values by providing programs and services in a warm and caring environment for all people in every stage of life. we build a community one member at a time.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding South Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is East Naples Middle School Pto Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 29 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 RUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MILAGRO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CAREGIVING YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Sweet Dream Makers Inc ↗
- Who funds JUST IMAGINE ↗
- Who funds MAE VOLEN SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MATANYA'S HOPE ↗
- Who funds BOCA HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY PEDIATRIC PATIENTS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Caridad Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds ADOLPH & ROSE LEVIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCADO GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds Project Ezra ↗
- Who funds ROSE ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JARC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF BROWARD AND PALM BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds World of Change ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER TEL HASHOMER INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA 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: Boca West Children's Foundation Fka Boca West Community Charitable Foundation · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Hands on Tzedakah Inc 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.
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Caridad Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mae Volen Senior Center Inc — 0% 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.
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