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Isadore & Yetta Joshowitz Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Isadore & Yetta Joshowitz Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$150k
Granted FY2025still arriving
80
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$321kReligion$177kEducation$104kYouth Development$19kHealth$18kHuman Services$10kCivil Rights$4kInternational$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k76 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
$400
Median grant
13
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GTR PGH$60,500
KOLLEL BAIS YITZCHOK (KOLLEL JEWISH LEARNING CENTER)$16,000
HILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH$11,950
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION$10,000
YESHIVA SCHOOLS$5,000
CONGREGATION POALE ZEDECK$2,600
BANOT SHERUT OF PITTSBURGH$2,500
PADRES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
SHAARE TORAH$2,000
YOUNG ISREAL OF PITTSBURGH$2,000
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY$2,000
CAMP STONE$2,000
HILLEL INTERNATIONAL$1,700
YESIVA NACHLEI TORAH$1,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PARDES: $2k → 17%CAMP STONE: $2k → 17%PARDES: $2k → 17%CAMP STONE: $2k → 17%CAMP STONE: $2k → 17%HILLEL THE FDN 4 JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $2k → 14%CAMP STONE: $2k → 17%CAMP STONE: $2k → 17%PADRES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES: $2k → 17%PADRES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES: $2k → 17%JOSHOWITZ FAMILY FUND GEMILAS CHESED: $20k → 11%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 17%GEMILAS CHESSED JOSHOWTIZ FAMILY FUND: $12k → 11%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 17%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 17%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 17%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GTR PGH: $61k → 11%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GTR PGH: $61k → 11%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GTR PGH: $60k → 11%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GTR PGH: $60k → 11%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GTR PGH: $45k → 11%CLASSROOMS WITHOUT BORDERS: $10k → 11%KOLLEL BAIS YITZCHOK (KOLLEL JEWISH LEARNING CENTER): $16k → 11%KOLLEL BAIS YITZCHOK (KOLLEL JEWISH LEARNING CENTER): $16k → 11%KOLLEL BAIS YITZCHOK (KOLLEL JEWISH LEARNING CENTER): $16k → 11%HILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH: $13k → 11%HILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH: $12k → 11%HILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH: $12k → 11%HILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH: $12k → 11%HILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH: $12k → 11%KOLLEL BAIS YITZCHOK (KOLLEL JEWISH LEARNING CENTER): $8k → 11%SHAARE TORAH: $7k → 11%KOLLEL BAIS YITZCHOK (KOLLEL JEWISH LEARNING CENTER): $6k → 11%YESHIVA SCHOOLS: $5k → 11%YESHIVA SCHOOLS: $5k → 11%BANOT SHERUT OF PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%BANOT SHERUT OF PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%YESHIVA SCHOOLS: $5k → 11%YESHIVA SCHOOLS: $5k → 11%YESHIVA SCHOOLS: $5k → 11%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $4k → 11%CONGREGATION POALE ZEDECK: $3k → 11%CONGREGATION POALE ZEDECK: $3k → 11%BANOT SHERUT OF PITTSBURGH: $3k → 11%CONGREGATION POALE ZEDECK: $2k → 11%YOUNG ISREAL OF PITTSBURGH: $2k → 11%PITTSBURGH JEWISH CHRONICLE: $2k → 11%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
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
MS
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$636k · 90 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

90 repeat relationships: 69 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
50

Total granted

$636k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+20%

Still filing today

32%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureInternationalEducationReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HA
    HILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH
    5× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +14%
  • YU
    YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +25%
  • HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $9k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • JF
    JOSHOWITZ FAMILY FUND GEMILAS CHESED
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • GC
    GEMILAS CHESSED JOSHOWTIZ FAMILY FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
University of Judaism Foundation
—
3
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
4
Sherit Isroel
—
5
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
7
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
8
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
9
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
10
Yad Laniyim
Philanthropy
11
Moskowitz Prize for Zionism Inc
—
12
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hillel Jewish University Center; the most unlike its peers is Reading Ready Pittsburgh. 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

46 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. 46 of the 151 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
28/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF GTR PGH: $286,500 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GTR PGHKOLLEL BAIS YITZCHOK (KOLLEL JEWISH LEARNING CENTER): $62,000 · OtherKOLLEL BAIS YITZCHOK (KOLLEL JEWISH LEARNING CENTER)YESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH: $25,000 · OtherJOSHOWITZ FAMILY FUND GEMILAS CHESED: $20,000 · Other+114 more: $194,540 · Other+114 moreHILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH: $60,350 · EducationHILLEL ACAD…YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationYESHIVA UNI…+3 more: $2,125 · EducationMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $2,000 · HealthBREAKAWAY FROM CANCER: $1,000 · HealthHERITAGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $850 · Health+4 more: $475 · HealthHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $8,600 · Religion+3 more: $400 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH: $2,500 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NACHLAS ZVI: $1,750 · PhilanthropyLEV MALKA INC: $540 · PhilanthropyBraddock Carnegie Library Assoc: $3,700 · Arts & CultureFILM PITTSBURGH: $1,100 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $300 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $200 · Arts & CultureONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $2,500 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $2,500 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel: $500 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $200 · International+2 more: $150 · International
Other$588,040Education$72,475Health$14,325Religion$9,000Philanthropy$7,290Arts & Culture$6,300International$5,850

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 budgetHILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH: $60,350 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $8,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBraddock Carnegie Library Assoc: $3,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPittsburgh Kollel Bais Yitzchok: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NACHLAS ZVI: $1,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND: $1,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER: $1,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA NACHLEI TORAH INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFILM PITTSBURGH: $1,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRELIGIOUS ZIONISTS OF AMERICA MIZRACHI HAPOEL HAMIZRACHI INC: $1,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKAWAY FROM CANCER: $1,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKOLLEL OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL AT BARUCH INC: $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetReading Ready Pittsburgh: $750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLEV MALKA INC: $540 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCRANTON HEBREW DAY SCHOOL: $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED SPACES: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA DERECH CHAIM: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE B'NAI B'RITH NON-PROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION-COVENANT HOUSE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Livnot ULehibanot: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INTERNATIONAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc: $50 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 HILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds PARDES INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Braddock Carnegie Library Assoc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds ONE ISRAEL FUND LTD ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC ↗
  • Who funds Pittsburgh Kollel Bais Yitzchok ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NACHLAS ZVI ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND ↗

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 Federation of …The Pittsburgh Founda…Jewish Communal FundTzedakah FoundationDavid S Shapira Found…The Jack Buncher Foun…Morris Charles M Tr U…The Fine FoundationRichard and Dana Gree…Giant Eagle FoundationHillman Family Founda…Fourteen Ten Foundati…
Jewish Federation of Greater PittsburghPA29.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Tzedakah Foundation · David S Shapira Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Morris Charles M Tr Ua-Char · The Fine Foundation · Richard and Dana Green Philanthropic Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Fourteen Ten 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 Isadore & Yetta Joshowitz Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Isadore & Yetta Joshowitz Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Yeshiva Nachlei Torah Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Kollel of Greater Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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 151 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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