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J & R Foundation

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.

$75k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$16MHuman Services$943kPhilanthropy$426kEducation$122kHealth$108kFood & Nutrition$62kCrime & Legal$50kInternational$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
$8,333
Median grant
1
States reached
$867k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEMILOS CHASADIM CHASDEI MOSHE$62,500
Ahavat Yisroel Humanity$8,333
Oneg Shabbos and Yom Tov$4,442
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 (FY18–24, $790k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Chaim LeChag Inc: $10k → 9%TIKVAH LECHAIM: $50k → 14%Ahavat Yisroel Humanity: $426k → 20%Ahavat Yisroel Humanity: $296k → 20%Ahavat Yisroel Humanity: $8k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 88% of J & R Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 11%.

J & R Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 50 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +156% since the first grant, against +68% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
152

Total granted

$15M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+156%
+68%

Still filing today

10%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • UO
    UTA OF KJ SC INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $512k · revenue +748% · 35% of their budget
  • YE
    YAD ELKA INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +156%
  • TA
    TZEDEK ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • CK
    CONGREGATION KOLEL VYASHKEM AVRUHO
    one grant, 2018 · $375k
  • CT
    CONGREGATION TZIDKAT JOSEF NAPHTALI
    one grant, 2019 · $263k
  • ME
    MASKIL EL-DAL INC
    one grant, 2018 · $250k
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
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
2
Chasdei Yakov Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
3
Tzemach Yifroch Foundation
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4
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
5
The Yad Moach Vlev Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
7
Yad Yosef Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Tzidkas Chaim Vleah Foundation Inc
—
9
Tov V Chesed Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Chasdei Yetev Lev Inc

Provide financial assistance to needy individuals, and to religious, educational, and charitable organizations in us and abroad.

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11
Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Ohel Yakov Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ahavat Yisroel Humanity Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Tov Vchesed Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the 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 203 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION KOLEL VYASHKEM AVRHOM: $4,025,600 · OtherCONGREGATION KOLEL VYASHKEM AVRHOMCONGREGATION OHR CHAIM: $3,691,200 · OtherCONGREGATION OHR CHAIMOIZ VEHUDER: $2,700,000 · OtherOIZ VEHUDER+184 more: $5,869,550 · Other+184 moreAHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY INC: $729,999 · Human ServicesTIKVAH LECHAIM INC: $50,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesUTA OF KJ SC INC: $512,000 · ReligionCHAYIM V CHESED: $56,500 · Religion+1 more: $18,000 · ReligionMERCAZ TORANI ORAITA INC: $60,000 · PhilanthropyTHE TOV VCHESED FOUNDATION: $48,001 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,800 · PhilanthropyLeChaim Charities Inc: $50,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthYAD ELKA INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionTHE OJC FUND: $20,000 · Education
Other$16,286,350Human Services$789,999Religion$586,500Philanthropy$109,801Health$51,000Food & Nutrition$50,000Education$20,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetAHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY INC: $729,999 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetUTA OF KJ SC INC: $512,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetMERCAZ TORANI ORAITA INC: $60,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCHAYIM V CHESED: $56,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYAD ELKA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTZEDEK ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTHE OJC FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYAAZORU INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAIM LECHAG INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRIVER TO COAST CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP SUREFIRE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUAH HELPLINE INCDBA REFUAH RESOURCES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 AHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds UTA OF KJ SC INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCAZ TORANI ORAITA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAYIM V CHESED ↗

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 FundNY82.7× affinity75 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · American Friends of Bnai Levy Foundation · Chayim V Chesed · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Zelig and Rifky Weiss Family Foundation Inc · Donors Fund Inc · The Lexicon Foundation Inc · Strulovich Family Foundation Trust · Vyazreim Inc · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · Asm Family Charitable Foundation Trust · U&R 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 J & R Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J & R Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%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
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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.

    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 203 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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