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Icu 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.

$50k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$50k
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 2022.

Food & Nutrition$200kReligion$144kHealth$17kInternational$6kHuman Services$2kCivil Rights$500Philanthropy$250Other$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$50,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, 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%KEREN HALBUSHA INC: $1k → 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.

10%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40k · 8 repeat orgs$378k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
53

Total granted

$40k
$328k

Still filing today

0%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’22
InternationalReligionHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • YS
    YESHIVA SHEARITH HAPLETAH
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k
  • MS
    MESIVTA SANZ OF HUDSON COUNTY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k

Funded once

  • ML
    MESAMCHEI LEV
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $21k
  • BY
    BOBOVER YESHIVA
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
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
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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2
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
3
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
4
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
5
American Friends of Tzir Hemed
Philanthropy
6
American Friends of Ohel Bas Zion Inc
—
7
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
8
Ziv Israel Association
—
9
American Friends Tomchai Shabat Foundation
—
10
Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation
Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
12
Zichron Moshe Elihu Tzedoka Fund
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Libi Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Friends of Ora. 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

11 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. 11 of the 63 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MESAMCHEI LEV: $200,000 · OtherMESAMCHEI LEVIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $21,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOBOVER YESHIVA: $20,000 · OtherYESHIVA SHEARITH HAPLETAH: $15,000 · Other+50 more: $85,566 · Other+50 moreCHAI LIFELINE INC: $17,000 · HealthSHOSHANAS HOAMOKIM: $5,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $1,000 · InternationalEMET VESHALOM INC: $1,800 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIALA YESHIVA INC: $650 · ReligionKEREN HALBUSHA INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesGEMACH ZICHRON MOSHE INC: $500 · Community ImprovementPaamonim: $250 · Philanthropy
Other$391,566Health$17,000International$6,000Religion$2,450Human Services$1,000Community Improvement$500Philanthropy$250

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 budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $17,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHOSHANAS HOAMOKIM: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN HALBUSHA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIALA YESHIVA INC: $650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEMACH ZICHRON MOSHE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaamonim: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALUMNI OF THE RABBINICAL COLLEGE KNESSETH ISRAEL OF SLABODKA KOWNA: $150 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 CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHOSHANAS HOAMOKIM ↗
  • Who funds EMET VESHALOM INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC ↗
  • Who funds KEREN HALBUSHA 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 FundNY38× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Rostrust Foundation · Bzl Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Emes Foundation Inc · The Margareten Family Foundation · Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Inc · Fund for Life Foundation Inc · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Icu Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Icu Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Icu Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Icu 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 63 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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