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Ja4 Auerbach Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Ja4 Auerbach Family Foundation Inc

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.

$58k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$30k
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, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$74kHealth$37kReligion$28kRecreation & Sports$5kInternational$2kHuman Services$2kPhilanthropy$2kEnvironment$20
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
$575
Median grant
6
States reached
$97k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY$30,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$15,000
TEMPLE EMANUEL$5,350
GLO GOOD FOUNDATION$2,000
TZOHAR SEMINARY$1,863
VALLEY CHABAD$1,800
PASCACK HILLS HS PFA$575
JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION$371
SYRACUSE HILLEL$371
DCS MONTESSORI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATI$345
TEMPLE EMANUEL HAPPY PURIM$299
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING$280
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$180
02The need
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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 (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ALPHA OMEGA FOUNDATION US: $2k → 7%TZOHAR SEMINARY: $2k → 11%NEPHCUREORG: $4k → 22%FOXG1 RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%SYRACUSE HILLEL: $371 → 14%GLO GOOD FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $540 → 14%DCS MONTESSORI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATI: $345 → 3%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20 → 4%TEMPLE EMANUEL: $14k → 7%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 14%FIDF: $124 → 17%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $180 → 14%DCS MONTESSORI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATI: $230 → 3%TEMPLE EMANUEL: $5k → 7%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 14%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $280 → 17%DCS MONTESSORI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATI: $230 → 3%TEMPLE EMANUEL OF THE PASCACK VALLY: $3k → 7%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 14%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $100 → 17%VALLEY CHABAD: $2k → 7%CHILDRENS BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION: $371 → 17%TEMPLE EMANUEL: $360 → 7%WORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%TEMPLE EMANUEL HAPPY PURIM: $299 → 7%NORTHSIDE CENTER: $2k → 17%TEMPLE EMANUEL: $250 → 7%WORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%TEMPLE EMANUEL HAPPY PURIM: $224 → 7%JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION: $371 → 7%THE TAILGATE WITH A CAUSE: $5k → 7%PASCACK HILLS HS PFA: $575 → 7%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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$122k · 8 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +88% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$122k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
0%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
HealthEducationInternationalPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $73k · revenue +6%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue +10%
  • WF
    Worldwide Friends Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +176%

Funded once

  • TT
    THE TAILGATE WITH A CAUSE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • FR
    FOXG1 Research Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +286%
  • N
    NEPHCUREORG
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
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
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
3
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
4
Sherit Isroel
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5
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
6
The Glaucoma Foundation Inc

The glaucoma foundation, inc. is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to eradicating glaucoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness. the strategy to achieve this goal is two-fold: raise public awareness concerning…

Health
7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
American Friends of the Us - Israel Binational Science Foundation

The mission of the american friends of the u.s.-israel binational science foundation (afbsf) is to ensure the continuation of collaborative world-class scientific research by israeli and american scientists through the us israel binational…

Science & Tech
9
Physicians for Palestine
Health
10
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

To promote, encourage, aid and advance higher and secondary education, research and training in all branches of knowledge. as the standard bearer of excellence, the university strives to ensure and foster outstanding achievements in all…

Education
11
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
12
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University; the most unlike its peers is Tzohar Arts. 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

12 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. 12 of the 23 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $72,500 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY+1 more: $1,863 · EducationTEMPLE EMANUEL: $19,813 · OtherTEMPLE EMANUELTHE TAILGATE WITH A CAUSE: $5,000 · OtherTHE TAILGATE WITH A CAUSENEPHCUREORG: $3,600 · OtherNEPHCUREORGTEMPLE EMANUEL OF THE PASCACK VALLY: $3,350 · OtherTEMPLE EMANUEL OF THE PASCACK…NORTHSIDE CENTER: $1,800 · OtherVALLEY CHABAD INC: $1,800 · Other+7 more: $3,394 · Other+7 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Associati…FOXG1 Research Inc: $5,000 · HealthFOXG1 Research IncALPHA OMEGA FOUNDATION INC: $1,860 · HealthALPHA OMEGA FOUNDATION I…+1 more: $371 · HealthWorldwide Friends Foundation: $2,103 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $124 · InternationalGLO GOOD FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropySYRACUSE HILLEL INC: $371 · Religion
Education$74,363Other$38,757Health$32,231International$2,227Philanthropy$2,000Religion$371

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 budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $72,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOXG1 Research Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWorldwide Friends Foundation: $2,103 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLO GOOD FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTzohar Arts: $1,863 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALPHA OMEGA FOUNDATION INC: $1,860 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $720 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $371 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE HILLEL INC: $371 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $124 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20 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.

The Wilder Family Fou…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Wilder Family Foundation IncNJ13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Wilder Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ja4 Auerbach Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ja4 Auerbach Family Foundation Inc. 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%25%50%75%100%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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ja4 Auerbach Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Ja4 Auerbach Family 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 23 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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