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Helen and Irving Spatz 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.

$566k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$202k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$2.1MReligion$1.2MEducation$395kPhilanthropy$154kHuman Services$101kArts & Culture$100kYouth Development$85kHousing & Shelter$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $260k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $302k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$9.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$202,000
BOCA REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$100,000
BOCA RATON SYNAGOGUE$40,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
CAMP HASC$30,000
BOCA RATON JEWISH EXPERIENCE$30,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH$25,000
ONEFAMILY$20,000
CONGREGATION ANSHE SHOLOM$15,000
YACHAD$15,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE$10,000
CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE$10,000
HATZALAH OF SO FLORIDA$10,000
THE NESHAMA FOUNDATION$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEMAYA SCHOOL$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $10k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%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

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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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 30 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
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Total granted

$4.0M
$2k

Still filing today

53%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
ReligionHealthEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • KY
    KATZ YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $245k · revenue +56%
  • CH
    CAMP HASC INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $205k · revenue +48%
  • NF
    NESHAMA FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +239%

Funded once

  • HO
    HOUSE OF SAGES
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
2
Kaplan Family Foundation Inc

To support the greater miami jewish federation and other irc code section 501(c)(3) organizations. philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking programs.

Philanthropy
3
Foundation for Jewish Camp Inc

Jewish summer camp is the enduring and irreplaceable connection and community that strengthens jewish identity, develops jewish leadership, and ensures a jewish future. foundation for jewish camp (fjc) is the only nonprofit whose singular…

Youth Development
4
Kesher Ld Inc Kesher

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…

Education
5
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
6
University of Judaism Foundation
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7
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…

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8
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
10
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
11
Greater Miami Hillel Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

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12
The Chasdei Shimon Foundation
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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

20 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. 20 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $1,802,000 · OtherALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINEBOCA REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $213,500 · OtherBOCA REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONCONGREGATION ANSHE SHOLOM: $172,000 · OtherCONGREGATION ANSHE SHOLOMAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEMAYA SCHOOL: $90,000 · Other+19 more: $408,000 · Other+19 moreBoca Raton Jewish Experience Inc: $576,000 · ReligionBoca Raton Jewish Exper…CAMP HASC INC: $205,000 · ReligionCAMP HASC INCNESHAMA FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · ReligionNESHAMA FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $15,000 · ReligionKATZ YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $245,000 · EducationKATZ YESHI…INTERNATIONAL MARCH OF THE LIVING I: $100,000 · EducationINTERNATIO…HEBREW ACADEMY FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN INC: $60,000 · EducationHEBREW ACA…JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $151,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyYACHAD INC: $85,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE: $10,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $4,000 · HealthTYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION: $4,000 · HealthBethesda Hospital Inc: $1,000 · HealthANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $16,000 · Civil Rights
Other$2,685,500Religion$866,000Education$405,000Philanthropy$156,000Housing & Shelter$85,000Health$19,000Civil Rights$16,000

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 budgetBoca Raton Jewish Experience Inc: $576,000 over 9y, 59% of budgetKATZ YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $245,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCAMP HASC INC: $205,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $151,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MARCH OF THE LIVING I: $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYACHAD INC: $85,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetNESHAMA FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 7y, 8.9% of budgetHEBREW ACADEMY FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP MORASHA INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $7,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBethesda Hospital Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 Boca Raton Jewish Experience Inc ↗
  • Who funds KATZ YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP HASC INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MARCH OF THE LIVING I ↗
  • Who funds YACHAD INC ↗
  • Who funds NESHAMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW ACADEMY FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAMP MORASHA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
  • Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Bethesda Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION 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 Communal FundNY17.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc · Fjc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Helen and Irving Spatz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen and Irving Spatz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Bethesda Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Helen and Irving Spatz Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 38 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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