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Irving Montak Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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 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 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc; 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 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. 19 of the 22 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

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 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%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
    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
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 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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