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Irving Montak 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.

$35k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Education$1.7MInternational$883kHealth$460kCommunity Improvement$250kArts & Culture$216kPublic Benefit$80kReligion$38kPhilanthropy$29kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONE FAMILY FUND$25,000
AFNATAL$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OPERATION BENJAMIN INC: $80k → 6%TOURO COLLEGE: $500k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $250k → 17%SINAI SPECIAL NEEDS INSTITUTE - SINAI SCHOOLS: $500k → 7%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PEACE OF MIND: $25k → 8%THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC: $18k → 16%FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH: $216k → 17%UNITED WAY OF BERGEN COUNTY: $25k → 7%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $115k → 17%ONE FAMILY FUND: $25k → 7%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $4k → 17%CONG BNAI YESHURUN RABBI'S DISCRET FND: $18k → 7%CHAI LIFELINE INC: $200k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $10k → 7%SEFARIA: $180k → 17%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $500k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITAL INC: $250k → 17%RABBI LEO JUNG MEMORIAL FUND: $20k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $200k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGDAL OHR: $500k → 17%AFNATAL: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
2
University of Judaism Foundation
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3
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
4
Sherit Isroel
—
5
Ohr Meir Ubracha

The organization provides financial assistance to victims of acts of terrorism in the state of israel.

Philanthropy
6
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
7
American Friends of Israel Emergency Aid Fund

To provide funding for medical and humanitarian projects throughout israel. the organization might make grants to other organizations providing such services, including, but not limited to, evp israel and israel emergency aid fund, israeli…

Public Safety & Disaster
8
American Friends of Ariel University Inc

To provide financial support to the university, its professors to further research, and in some cases its students in the form of scholarships. additionally, some funding is dedicated to furthering the public profile of the university in…

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9
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
10
American Friends of Israel Organizations Inc

Funding of organizations qualified under section 501(c) or equivalent as operating for charitable, religious, or educational purposes, or that would so qualify based on the nature of such organization's operations

International
11
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc and the most unlike its peers is Yeshiva University. 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

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YESHIVA UNIVERSITY — $500,000 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITYTOURO UNIVERSITY — $500,000 · EducationTOURO UNIVERSITYSEFARIA INC — $180,000 · EducationSEFARIA INCSINAI SPECIAL NEEDS INSTITUTE - SINAI SCHOOLS — $500,000 · OtherSINAI SPECIAL NEEDS INSTIT…CHAI LIFELINE INC — $200,000 · OtherCHAI LIFELINE INCOPERATION BENJAMIN INC — $80,000 · OtherOPERATION BENJAMIN INC+4 more — $73,000 · Other+4 moreAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR — $500,000 · Youth DevelopmentAmerican Friend…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC — $250,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIE…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $115,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIE…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PEACE OF MIND INC — $25,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIE…ONE FAMILY FUND — $25,000 · InternationalONE FAMILY FU…THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC — $18,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC — $250,000 · Community ImprovementPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $200,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICA GIVES INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $4,109 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $216,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,180,000Other$853,000Youth Development$500,000International$433,000Community Improvement$250,000Philanthropy$239,109Arts & Culture$216,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY — $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR — $500,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetTOURO UNIVERSITY — $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC — $250,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $216,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEFARIA INC — $180,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $115,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION BENJAMIN INC — $80,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF PEACE OF MIND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetONE FAMILY FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BERGEN COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $4,109 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Jewish Communal FundNY14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Irving Montak Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
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no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get 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, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Irving Montak Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Irving Montak 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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