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Ims Charitable Trust at a glance

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Ims Charitable Trust

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$63k
Granted FY2021
8
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Education$330kReligion$238kHealth$119kInternational$85kHuman Services$51kRecreation & Sports$23kPhilanthropy$15kEmployment$6kOther$0
02FY2021 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k6 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
$3,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$35,820
THE MACCABEE FOUNDATION$10,000
THANC FOUNDATION$5,000
UNITED MASHADI JEWISH COMMUNITY OF AMERICA$3,750
WIZO$2,800
KEREN HAYELED$2,600
PERSIAN JEWISH CENTER$2,000
CHABAD OF THE HAMPTONS$750
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 (FY17–20, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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%LARGER THAN LIFE: $12k → 13%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $2k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $6k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $10k → 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.
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$909k · 19 repeat orgs$194k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2021, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
45

Total granted

$909k
$191k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+41%

Still filing today

47%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
InternationalHealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SG
    STEPHEN GAYNOR SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $250k · revenue +36%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    2× · 2020–2021 · $36k · revenue +211%
  • UG
    UNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $22k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • DN
    DS NEW BORN PARENTS LOUNGE
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT RUTH INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -1%
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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
Sherit Isroel
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3
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
4
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
5
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
6
University of Judaism Foundation
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7
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
8
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
9
Yeshiva University High Schools

The yeshiva university high schools has as its educational mission to teach and perpetuate the values of torah and secular studies. see schedule o.

Education
10
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Zichron Chaim Meir Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Torah Temimah Jerusalem

The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Impactisrael Inc; the most unlike its peers is Untermyer Gardens Conservancy Inc. 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

28 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. 28 of the 67 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)
28/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $150,260 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPERSIAN JEWISH CENTER: $146,910 · OtherPERSIAN JEWISH CENTERWIZO: $55,994 · OtherWIZOMaccabee Foundation Inc: $42,000 · OtherMaccabee Foundation IncCONGREGATION KEHILATH JESHURUN: $40,956 · OtherCONGREGATION KEHILATH JESHURUNBREAST CANCER RESEARCH: $38,500 · OtherBREAST CANCER RESEARCHAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA: $25,000 · OtherDS NEW BORN PARENTS LOUNGE: $25,000 · Other+38 more: $139,804 · Other+38 moreSTEPHEN GAYNOR SCHOOL: $250,295 · EducationSTEPHEN GAYNOR SCHOOLLong Island Hebrew Academy: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $7,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $36,170 · InternationalEZER MIZION: $20,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT RUTH INC: $15,000 · InternationalIMPACTISRAEL INC: $7,000 · International+2 more: $2,860 · InternationalTHE THANC FOUNDATION INC: $26,800 · HealthUpper East Side Hatzolah Inc: $4,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $2,500 · Health+2 more: $680 · HealthLARGER THAN LIFE USA INC: $11,960 · Human ServicesENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesBELEV ECHAD INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesMOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesUNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC: $22,000 · Recreation & SportsMDRC: $6,000 · Employment
Other$664,424Education$267,295International$81,030Health$33,980Human Services$29,460Recreation & Sports$22,000Employment$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTEPHEN GAYNOR SCHOOL: $250,295 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMaccabee Foundation Inc: $42,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $36,170 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THANC FOUNDATION INC: $26,800 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC: $22,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEZER MIZION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT RUTH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLARGER THAN LIFE USA INC: $11,960 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHEFA SCHOOL: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMDRC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELEV ECHAD INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $2,540 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE 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 STEPHEN GAYNOR SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Maccabee Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds THE THANC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds EZER MIZION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT RUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds LARGER THAN LIFE USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Long Island Hebrew Academy ↗
  • Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds SHEFA SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MDRC ↗
  • Who funds BELEV ECHAD INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Upper East Side Hatzolah Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER 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 FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Nazee & Joseph Moinia…Jerome L Stern Family…Iranian American Jewi…Greater Miami Jewish …Jewish Community Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…
Jewish Communal FundNY28.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Nazee & Joseph Moinian Foundation · Jerome L Stern Family Foundation Inc · Iranian American Jewish Federation of New York Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Ims Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ims Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 67 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home