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J Samuel Harwit Zl and Manya Harwit-Aviv Charitable Trust at a glance

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J Samuel Harwit Zl and Manya Harwit-Aviv Charitable Trust

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.

$519k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through 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 2025.

Education$1.4MReligion$932kInternational$830kYouth Development$350kPhilanthropy$350kHealth$288kHuman Services$250kHousing & Shelter$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $420k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHABAD'S TERROR VICTIMS PROJECT INC$50,000
AMIT CHILDREN$30,000
TEMPLE BETH SHALOM$30,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
HILLEL HEBREW ACADEMY$25,000
JETS$25,000
BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY$25,000
EMEK HEBREW ACADEMY$25,000
YAVNEH HEBREW ACADEMY$25,000
BIKUR CHOLIM$25,000
NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF SYNAGOGUE YOUTH$25,000
CONGREGATION SHAAREI TEFILA$25,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$25,000
WEST POINT ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES$20,000
BJE$15,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES - AZ: $30k → 11%STAND WITH US: $25k → 14%AMIT CHILDREN: $30k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES - AZ: $30k → 11%STAND WITH US: $25k → 14%AMIT CHILDREN: $30k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES - AZ: $30k → 11%STAND WITH US: $25k → 14%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $40k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES - AZ: $30k → 11%STAND WITH US: $25k → 14%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $40k → 17%STAND WITH US: $25k → 14%STAND WITH US: $25k → 14%AMIT WOMEN: $30k → 17%AMIT WOMEN: $30k → 17%STAND WITH US: $25k → 14%AMIT WOMEN: $30k → 17%AMIT WOMEN: $30k → 17%FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH: $25k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25k → 17%JETS VOCATIONAL SCHOOL: $25k → 14%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25k → 17%JETS VOCATIONAL SCHOOL: $25k → 14%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25k → 17%JETS: $25k → 14%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25k → 17%JETS VOCATIONAL SCHOOL: $25k → 14%JETS VOCATIONAL SCHOOL: $25k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PONEVEZ YESHIVA: $30k → 17%JETS VOCATIONAL SCHOOL: $25k → 14%CHABAD'S TERROR VICTIMS PROJECT INC: $50k → 20%JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%BIKUR CHOLIM: $30k → 14%TEMPLE BETH SHALOM: $30k → 14%TEMPLE BETH SHALOM: $30k → 14%TEMPLE BETH SHALOM: $30k → 14%NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF SYNAGOGUE YOUTH: $50k → 14%NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF SYNAGOGUE YOUTH: $50k → 14%AMIT WOMEN: $30k → 14%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 41 repeat orgs$249k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
8

Total granted

$3.7M
$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
0%

Still filing today

27%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalReligionHealthPublic BenefitFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • AC
    AMIT CHILDREN INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +47%
  • IE
    ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
    7× · 2018–2024 · $175k · revenue +91%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PONOVEZ ISRAEL INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $90k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES - HOPE
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
4
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
5
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
6
Yad Laniyim
Philanthropy
7
University of Judaism Foundation
—
8
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Ahavas Torah V'chesed
Philanthropy
10
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship
Religion
12
Youth Towns of Israel (California)
International
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 Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy. 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

18 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. 18 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $350,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF SYNAGOGUE YOUTH: $250,000 · OtherNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF SYNAGOGUE YOUTHYAVNEH HEBREW ACADEMY: $200,000 · OtherYAVNEH HEBREW ACADEMYHILLEL HEBREW ACADEMY: $200,000 · OtherHILLEL HEBREW ACADEMYEMEK HEBREW DAY SCHOOL: $200,000 · OtherEMEK HEBREW DAY SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY: $175,000 · OtherJETS VOCATIONAL SCHOOL: $175,000 · OtherBJE: $170,000 · OtherCONGREGATION SHAAREI TEFILA: $150,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES - AZ: $120,000 · OtherYESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL - GIRLS DIVISION: $115,000 · Other+35 more: $1,102,700 · Other+35 moreAMIT CHILDREN INC: $180,000 · InternationalAMIT CHILDREN I…ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $175,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENC…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $95,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PONOVEZ ISRAEL INC: $90,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIEND…Chabad Terror Victims Project Inc: $50,000 · InternationalChabad Terror V…SHAVEY YITZCHAK INC: $25,000 · InternationalBIKUR CHOLIM: $205,000 · HealthPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $160,000 · PhilanthropyLos Angeles Community Eruv: $35,800 · ReligionBNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES: $35,800 · ReligionAISH TAMID OF LOS ANGELES: $35,000 · ReligionASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY: $55,000 · Public BenefitFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,407,700International$615,000Health$205,000Philanthropy$160,000Religion$106,600Public Benefit$55,000Arts & Culture$25,000

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 budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM: $205,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetAMIT CHILDREN INC: $180,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $175,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $160,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF PONOVEZ ISRAEL INC: $90,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTIKVAH-ETTA AND LAZEAR ISRAEL CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLos Angeles Community Eruv: $35,800 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetBNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES: $35,800 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAISH TAMID OF LOS ANGELES: $35,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHAVEY YITZCHAK INC: $25,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetTOUCH OF KINDNESS INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $10,000 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 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM ↗
  • Who funds AMIT CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PONOVEZ ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Chabad Terror Victims Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds TIKVAH-ETTA AND LAZEAR ISRAEL CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED ↗
  • Who funds Los Angeles Community Eruv ↗
  • Who funds BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds AISH TAMID OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH 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 Community Foun…Jewish Communal FundRyzman Foundation IncGoldner Family Founda…Jewish Federation Cou…The Dorothy Phillips …Chavi F Hertz Foundat…Hager FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…Davmarn FoundationThe Alon and Rosana M…Lee and Anne Samson C…
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA30.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Communal Fund · Ryzman Foundation Inc · Goldner Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · The Dorothy Phillips Michaud Charitable Trust · Chavi F Hertz Foundation Inc · Hager Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Davmarn Foundation · The Alon and Rosana Miller Foundation · Lee and Anne Samson Charitable 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 Samuel Harwit Zl and Manya Harwit-Aviv Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J Samuel Harwit Zl and Manya Harwit-Aviv Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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, FY20–24
    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.
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    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 60 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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