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House of Gross 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.

$17k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$109kHealth$17kEducation$15kHuman Services$10kPhilanthropy$8kInternational$7kFood & Nutrition$3kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$180
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KEREN OR INC$5,118
Individual grant recipient$1,275
Individual grant recipient$1,200
CONGREGATION ADAS ISRAEL$1,100
CONG BAIS MEDRACH KEREM SHLOMO$1,000
Y I W S$720
BIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN CO MRS M GOTTESMAN$613
PASSAIC-CLIFTON COMMUNITY KOLLEL$600
CHESED FUND$600
CONGREGATION EITZ CHAIM$580
PFAP$500
YOUNG ISRAEL OF THE WEST SIDE$500
Individual grant recipient$430
YITZY'S TORAH GEMACH OF JACKSON$360
CITY OF REFUGE$300
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 (FY17–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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%GEMACH OF JACKSON: $50 → 11%METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $36 → 17%UNITED CHARITY INSTITUTIONS OF JERUSALEM: $100 → 14%UNITED CHARITY INSTITUTIONS OF JERUSALEM: $100 → 14%CHAI4EVER: $100 → 11%METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $200 → 17%DOROT INC: $100 → 17%DOROT INC: $100 → 17%DOROT INC: $100 → 17%ATIME: $262 → 20%ATIME: $154 → 20%ONEG SHABBAT OF THE WEST SIDE CO SHERRY & MARK FESSEL: $500 → 17%ONEG SHABBAT OF THE WEST SIDE CO SHERRY & MARK FESSEL: $500 → 17%KIMPATORIN AID: $100 → 20%ONEG SHABBAT OF THE WEST SIDE CO SHERRY & MARK FESSEL: $360 → 17%ONEG SHABBAT OF THE WEST SIDE CO SHERRY & MARK FESSEL: $180 → 17%KIMPATORIN AID: $100 → 20%UNITED CHARITY INSTITUTIONS OF JERUSALEM: $200 → 20%MATAN B'SETER BAMBI: $180 → 20%ATIME: $54 → 20%BONEI OLAM: $100 → 20%ATIME: $54 → 20%UNITED CHARITY INSTITUTIONS OF JERUSALEM: $100 → 20%ATIME: $25 → 20%UNITED CHARITY INSTITUTIONS OF JERUSALEM: $100 → 20%MISASKIM: $36 → 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

ME
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
DC
GA
TX
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.
$141k · 120 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

120 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 102 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

120
127

Total granted

$141k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+22%

Still filing today

33%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationReligionHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • KO
    KEREN OR INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $13k · revenue +78%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MERCAZ HATORAH INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +96%
  • OS
    ONEG SHABBAT OF THE WEST SIDE DBA TOMCHEI SHABBOS OF MANHATTAN
    4× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +300%

Funded once

  • YO
    YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +28%
  • MO
    MESIVTA OF CLIFTON INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +6%
  • CZ
    CONGREGATION ZICHRON AVOS CO RABBI AVROHOM KAPLAN
    one grant, 2020 · $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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Sherit Isroel
—
3
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
4
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
5
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
6
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
7
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
8
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
9
Gemilas Chesed Kramer Inc
Philanthropy
10
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
11
University of Judaism Foundation
—
12
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed Israel Foundation; the most unlike its peers is GivingFund. 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

88 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 88 of the 272 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/88
Grantees still filing
60/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION AHAVAS CHESED: $14,764 · OtherCONGREGATION AHAVAS CHESEDTOMCHEI SHABBOS OF PASSAICCLIFTON: $10,135 · OtherTOMCHEI SHABBOS OF PASSAICCLIFTONNATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAEL: $9,840 · OtherNATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAELZICHRON AVOS CO AVROHOM KAPLAN: $8,500 · OtherZICHRON AVOS CO AVROHOM KAPLANIndividual grant recipient: $7,018 · OtherCONGREGATION AHAVAS CHESED CO AARON COHEN: $4,600 · Other+138 more: $82,284 · Other+138 moreKEREN OR INC: $12,812 · EducationKEREN OR INCYESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $5,000 · EducationYESHIVA OF GR…MESIVTA OF CLIFTON INC: $2,100 · EducationMESIVTA OF CL…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MERCAZ HATORAH INC: $1,720 · EducationAMERICAN FRIE…+5 more: $692 · EducationGivingFund: $4,000 · PhilanthropyFEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC: $1,297 · PhilanthropyDONORS FUND INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $190 · PhilanthropyYESHIVA KTANA OF PASSAIC: $2,100 · ReligionESHEL: $1,000 · ReligionVAAD HARABBANIM L'INYANEI TZEDUKA INC: $800 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR: $629 · ReligionMIKVAH USA INC: $600 · ReligionGreat Charity Chaye Olam Institutions of Jerusalem Inc: $400 · ReligionCITY OF REFUGE: $300 · Religion+5 more: $814 · ReligionGENERAL ISRAEL ORPHAN HOME FOR GIRLS: $700 · InternationalJerusalem Orphan Home Inc: $600 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $400 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $300 · InternationalJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA: $300 · InternationalCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $236 · InternationalTORAH COMMUNITY FUND INC: $200 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $200 · InternationalKOLEL CHIBAS JERUSALEM: $200 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC: $180 · InternationalAMIT CHILDREN INC: $180 · International+4 more: $418 · InternationalONEG SHABBAT OF THE WEST SIDE DBA TOMCHEI SHABBOS OF MANHATTAN: $1,540 · Human ServicesUnited Charity of Jerusalem: $600 · Human ServicesA Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange: $549 · Human ServicesDOROT INC: $300 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $236 · Human ServicesKIMPATORIN AID INC: $200 · Human ServicesMATAN B'SETER BAMBIINC: $180 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $350 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $280 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC: $236 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $225 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC: $200 · Arts & Culture
Other$137,141Education$22,324Philanthropy$6,987Religion$6,643International$3,914Human Services$3,705Arts & Culture$2,291

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKEREN OR INC: $12,812 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGivingFund: $4,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMESIVTA OF CLIFTON INC: $2,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA KTANA OF PASSAIC: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONEG SHABBAT OF THE WEST SIDE DBA TOMCHEI SHABBOS OF MANHATTAN: $1,540 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC: $1,297 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDONORS FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetESHEL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $980 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEER HAGOLAH INSTITUTES INC: $931 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVAAD HARABBANIM L'INYANEI TZEDUKA INC: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPassaic Clifton Passover Fund Inc Food for Pesach: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGENERAL ISRAEL ORPHAN HOME FOR GIRLS: $700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHATZOLAH OF PASSAIC CLIFTON EMS: $660 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR: $629 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJerusalem Orphan Home Inc: $600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMIKVAH USA INC: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Charity of Jerusalem: $600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetA Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange: $549 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $540 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $522 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA OF NORTH JERSEY: $375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM: $318 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $236 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC: $236 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $236 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $225 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNoam Shabbos Inc: $218 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC: $208 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTORAH COMMUNITY FUND INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIMPATORIN AID INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKOLEL CHIBAS JERUSALEM: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC: $200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEED ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $190 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC: $180 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 KEREN OR INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds GivingFund ↗
  • Who funds MESIVTA OF CLIFTON INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA KTANA OF PASSAIC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MERCAZ HATORAH INC ↗
  • Who funds ONEG SHABBAT OF THE WEST SIDE DBA TOMCHEI SHABBOS OF MANHATTAN ↗
  • Who funds FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC ↗
  • Who funds DONORS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ESHEL ↗

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 FundZichron Chaim Charity…Gertrude and Morris B…The Setton FoundationMoses and Miriam Voge…Jack Adjmi Family Fou…Associated Jewish Cha…The Sorala FoundationF G FoundationThe Nathan and Marily…The Fishoff Family Fo…
The Ojc FundNY48.6× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation · The Setton Foundation · Moses and Miriam Vogel Charitable Foundation Tr · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Sorala Foundation · F G Foundation · The Nathan and Marilyn Silberman Fdn · The Fishoff Family 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 House of Gross Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from House of Gross Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 220%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Chai 4EVER Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Yeshiva of Greater Washington Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
22get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 House of Gross Foundation Inc 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 272 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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