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Herbert & Ethel Somerstein Memorial Foundation Inc at a glance

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Herbert & Ethel Somerstein Memorial Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$13k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$23kHuman Services$5kYouth Development$930Education$200Arts & Culture$100Public Safety & Disaster$100Other$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$650
Median grant
1
States reached
$306
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KEREN AHAVAS CHESED$5,301
TORAH ACADEMY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
CONG BAIS MEDRASH OF CEDARHURST$650
OHEL TORAH$392
BAIS MEDRASH OF HARBORVIEW$200
Individual grant recipient$100
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 29% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%BAIS MEDRASH OF HARBORVIEW: $200 → 6%SCHEDULE ATACHED: $11k → 13%OHEL TORAH: $392 → 20%CONG BAIS MEDRASH OF CEDARHURST: $650 → 6%TORAH ACADEMY: $5k → 13%CHOSON VNOSEN: $1k → 20%KEREN AHAVAS CHESED: $5k → 20%BIKUR CHOLIM VCHESED: $100 → 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.
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.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8k · 8 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
22

Total granted

$8k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+5%

Still filing today

38%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentReligionArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • MC
    Miscellaneous Charities Below $100
    3× · 2020–2023 · $5k
  • CE
    CAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME
    3× · 2020–2023 · $930 · revenue +22%
  • CS
    Congregation Sdei Yaakov Square
    3× · 2020–2023 · $720

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $11k
  • CK
    Cong Khal Chasidim of Chernobale
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • CK
    Congregation Keren Ahavas Chaim
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
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
Tal Hashamayim Foundation
Religion
3
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
4
The Yad Moach Vlev Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Meor Hachaim Foundation
Philanthropy
6
The Keren Rachaim Fund
—
7
Keren Kinyan Torah Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Zechut Avot Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Zichroin Rabbeini Meshilem Feiish Ztl Foundation
—
10
Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship
Religion
11
Ohel Yakov Foundation
—
12
Keren Yad Le-Yosef Foundation Trust
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva Beth Abraham of Jerusalem Inc; the most unlike its peers is Camp Extreme D/B/a Project Extreme. 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

9 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. 9 of the 36 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $10,511 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKEREN AHAVAS CHESED: $5,301 · OtherKEREN AHAVAS CHESEDTORAH ACADEMY: $5,000 · OtherTORAH ACADEMYCong Khal Chasidim of Chernobale: $4,950 · OtherCong Khal Chasidim of ChernobaleMiscellaneous Charities Below $100: $4,664 · OtherMiscellaneous Charities Below $100+24 more: $8,862 · Other+24 moreCAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME: $930 · Youth DevelopmentDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $350 · Human ServicesTHE NE'EMAN FOUNDATION: $280 · Human ServicesERNA LINDENFELD HACHNOSAS KALLAH FUND: $100 · Human ServicesYESHIVA BETH ABRAHAM OF JERUSALEM INC: $400 · ReligionMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $100 · Arts & CultureHEBREW DAY SCHOOL OF SULLIVAN AND ULSTER COUNTIES INC: $100 · Education
Other$39,288Youth Development$930Human Services$730Religion$400Arts & Culture$100Education$100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME: $930 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA BETH ABRAHAM OF JERUSALEM INC: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW DAY SCHOOL OF SULLIVAN AND ULSTER COUNTIES INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetERNA LINDENFELD HACHNOSAS KALLAH FUND: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQUEENS HATZOLO AID INC: $100 over 1y, 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 CAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA BETH ABRAHAM OF JERUSALEM INC ↗
  • Who funds Ohel Torah ↗
  • Who funds DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NE'EMAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW DAY SCHOOL OF SULLIVAN AND ULSTER COUNTIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ERNA LINDENFELD HACHNOSAS KALLAH FUND ↗
  • Who funds QUEENS HATZOLO AID 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.

The Ojc FundJewish Communal FundBelsky Family Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Society for …National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ojc FundNY23.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Belsky Family Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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 36 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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