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Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and general studies faculty and community.

$8.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$5.7MEducation$556kInternational$368kPhilanthropy$183kArts & Culture$68kFood & Nutrition$50kHuman Services$47kHealth$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 32 grants below total $416,974, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,712,430 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,295,456 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $330k
$10,575
Median grant
4
States reached
$82M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND$45,457
KEREN Y&Y$30,100
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIRYAT CHINUCH LEBANIM$29,000
ASCENT INC$20,656
BAIS EFRAIM$20,000
NACHAL CHAREDI$19,731
CONGREGATION BETH MIKROH$19,500
CONG BETH MIKROH INC$19,500
RISING HEROES$15,000
CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL$12,605
UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONG$12,500
CONG MASORES HACHINUCH$12,000
FRIENDS OF NAHAL HEREDI$11,615
CHESED SHMIEL ZANVIL VHINDA (CONG BEIS ELIEZER)$10,850
AHAVATH ISRAEL$10,575
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, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Israel Medical Fund: $18k → 17%ISRAEL MEDICAL FUND CORP: $5k → 17%BIKUR CHOLIM: $6k → 17%BIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELAND: $5k → 17%AGUDATH ISRAEL: $15k → 17%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
MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 32 repeat orgs$4.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
53

Total granted

$2.0M
$4.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+3%

Still filing today

34%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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
ReligionInternationalEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI
    7× · 2019–2025 · $210k · revenue +332%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS NESIVOS AHRON C/O MICHAEL FRIEDMAN
    7× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +259%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIRYAT CHINUCH LABONIM INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $54k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • YS
    YESHIVA SHAAREI ARAZIM
    one grant, 2017 · $3.6M · revenue -25%
  • PM
    PARK MIKVAH INC
    one grant, 2017 · $120k
  • TT
    TOMCHEI TORAH B'ERETZ YISRAEL INC TOMCHEI TORAH B'ERETgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +73%
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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
3
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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4
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
5
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
6
Friends of Yeshiva Tehilas Shlomo Inc

Provide support to further jewish education

Philanthropy
7
Tamim Academies
Philanthropy
8
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
9
Kollel Nefesh Hachaim Inc
Education
10
American Friends of Amaleh Shel Torah Inc

None

Education
11
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
12
Yeshiva Beit Rafael

Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva Ruach Chaim Inc; the most unlike its peers is Telugu Asso of Greater Chicago. 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

44 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. 44 of the 99 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
27/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YESHIVA SHAAREI ARAZIM: $3,605,225 · EducationYESHIVA SHAAREI ARAZIMKEREN YEHOSHUA V'YISROEL: $170,580 · Education+4 more: $42,900 · EducationHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $454,426 · OtherHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELANDCONGREGATION ZICHRON ELIEZER: $195,000 · OtherCONGREGATION ZICHRON ELIEZERPARK MIKVAH INC: $119,514 · OtherPARK MIKVAH INCCLEVELAND TORAH CENTER INC: $109,750 · OtherAHAVATH ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $109,650 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH MIKROH INC: $107,500 · OtherYESHIVA KETANA TORAS CHAIM: $90,900 · OtherCONGREGATION BAIS EFRAIM I: $77,000 · Other+56 more: $939,004 · Other+56 moreFRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI: $210,331 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIRYAT CHINUCH LABONIM INC: $54,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $50,800 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel: $36,960 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF P'TACHINC: $25,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ACHY: $16,500 · International+1 more: $6,250 · InternationalTIDEWATER JEWISH FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS NESIVOS AHRON C/O MICHAEL FRIEDMAN: $81,000 · PhilanthropyTOMCHEI TORAH B'ERETZ YISRAEL INC TOMCHEI TORAH B'ERET: $50,000 · PhilanthropyMatan BSayser of Cleveland Inc: $43,750 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $40,000 · PhilanthropyFEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyOHR YOSEF INC: $12,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HEBREW DAY SCHOOLS: $50,000 · ReligionYESHIVA KTANA OF PASSAIC: $31,100 · ReligionCONSORTIUM OF JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC: $25,000 · ReligionASCENT-INNER DIMENSIONS OF JEWISH LIFESTYLE INC: $20,656 · ReligionYESHIVA RUACH CHAIM INC: $20,000 · ReligionRISING HEROES INC: $15,000 · ReligionLEV BEREL INC: $7,500 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAIS TEFILA: $7,000 · Religion+1 more: $5,100 · ReligionMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTELUGU ASSO OF GREATER CHICAGO: $25,000 · Arts & CultureISRAEL MEDICAL FUND CORP: $23,000 · Human ServicesAgudath Israel of Ohio Inc: $15,350 · Human ServicesBIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELAND: $11,110 · Human Services
Education$3,818,705Other$2,202,744International$399,841Philanthropy$351,750Religion$181,356Arts & Culture$50,000Human Services$49,460

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $454,426 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI: $210,331 over 7y, 10% of budgetKEREN YEHOSHUA V'YISROEL: $170,580 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetTIDEWATER JEWISH FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS NESIVOS AHRON C/O MICHAEL FRIEDMAN: $81,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIRYAT CHINUCH LABONIM INC: $54,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $50,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HEBREW DAY SCHOOLS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOMCHEI TORAH B'ERETZ YISRAEL INC TOMCHEI TORAH B'ERET: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMatan BSayser of Cleveland Inc: $43,750 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $36,960 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF P'TACHINC: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetKAD RIVKAH-HACHNOSAS KALLOH FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetTELUGU ASSO OF GREATER CHICAGO: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCONSORTIUM OF JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBINA GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetISRAEL MEDICAL FUND CORP: $23,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSINAI SPECIAL NEEDS INSTITUTE INC: $21,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA RUACH CHAIM INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ACHY: $16,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAgudath Israel of Ohio Inc: $15,350 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetRISING HEROES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHAVIE STERN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRABBINICAL COLLEGE OF TELSHE INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOHR YOSEF INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELAND: $11,110 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBAIS EPHRAIM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DESTINY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLEV BEREL INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAIS TEFILA: $7,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetZICHRON CHAIM INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQUEENS YESHIVA KETANA INC: $5,400 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 YESHIVA SHAAREI ARAZIM ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI ↗
  • Who funds KEREN YEHOSHUA V'YISROEL ↗
  • Who funds TIDEWATER JEWISH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS NESIVOS AHRON C/O MICHAEL FRIEDMAN ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIRYAT CHINUCH LABONIM INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HEBREW DAY SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds TOMCHEI TORAH B'ERETZ YISRAEL INC TOMCHEI TORAH B'ERET ↗
  • Who funds Matan BSayser of Cleveland Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA KTANA OF PASSAIC ↗
  • Who funds MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF P'TACHINC ↗
  • Who funds KAD RIVKAH-HACHNOSAS KALLOH FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds TELUGU ASSO OF GREATER CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds CONSORTIUM OF JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds BINA GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL MEDICAL FUND CORP ↗
  • Who funds SINAI SPECIAL NEEDS INSTITUTE 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.

National Society for …Jewish Federation of …The Ojc FundTidewater Jewish Foun…Associated Jewish Cha…Jewish Community Foun…Jack Adjmi Family Fou…Jewish Communal FundToras Chesed IncThe Jmg FoundationDonors Fund IncFjc
National Society for Hebrew Day SchoolsNY57.9× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Ojc Fund · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Toras Chesed Inc · The Jmg Foundation · Donors Fund Inc · Fjc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Mesorah Heritage Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
5report 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, FY20–25
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 99 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 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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