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Jack Ehrlich 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.

$1k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$750
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$4kHealth$3kInternational$850Arts & Culture$600Food & Nutrition$400Education$250
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100
Median grant
3
States reached
$38k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETH DAVID REFORM CONGREGATION$750
WHYY$100
MAZON$100
LIVEWELL$100
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$100
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$100
FAMILY PROMISE$100
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 49% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER: $100 → 7%WHYY: $100 → 9%BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE: $100 → 10%LIVEWELL: $200 → 22%MAZON: $100 → 14%MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $250 → 17%RELIGIOUS COALITION REPRO CHOICE: $100 → 14%BETH DAVID REFOM: $1k → 7%BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE: $100 → 10%LIVEWELL: $100 → 22%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $100 → 17%MAZON: $100 → 14%BETH DAVID REFORM CONGREGATION: $750 → 7%BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE: $100 → 10%LIVEWELL: $100 → 22%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $100 → 17%MAZON: $100 → 14%BETH DAVID REFORM CONGREGATION: $700 → 7%LIVEWELL FOUNDATION: $600 → 22%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $100 → 17%RELIGIOUS ACTION CENTER: $100 → 14%BETH DAVID REFORM CONGREGATION: $500 → 7%LIVEWELL FOUNDATION: $500 → 22%BETH DAVID REFORM CONGREGATION: $500 → 7%LIVEWELL FOUNDATION: $250 → 22%BETH DAVID REFORM CONGREGATION: $500 → 7%LIVEWELL FOUNDATION: $100 → 22%HENRY COHEN LIVES: $100 → 7%WHYY: $100 → 22%HENRY COHEN LIVES: $100 → 7%PHILABUNDANCE: $100 → 22%INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK: $100 → 7%MIKVEH ISRAEL: $50 → 22%FAMILY PROMISE: $100 → 7%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $250 → 22%IHN OF THE MAIN LINE: $100 → 7%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $250 → 22%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $250 → 22%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $200 → 22%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $100 → 22%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $100 → 22%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $100 → 22%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $100 → 22%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $100 → 22%WHYY: $100 → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7k · 9 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
9

Total granted

$7k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+0%

Still filing today

56%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 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
HealthArts & CultureInternationalFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • LF
    LIVEWELL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1k · revenue +125%
  • BM
    BRYN MAWR THEATRE FILM INSTITUTE
    3× · 2018–2020 · $300 · revenue +7%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $300 · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $250 · revenue -51%
  • IH
    INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK
    one grant, 2020 · $100

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
2
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

3
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America

Phrma's mission is to conduct effective advocacy for public policies that encourage the discovery of important, new medicines for patients by biopharmaceutical research companies.

4
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
7
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
8
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
9
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
10
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

11
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
12
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philabundance and the most unlike its peers is Whyy Inc. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BETH DAVID REFORM CONGREGATION — $2,950 · OtherBETH DAVID REFORM CONGREGATIONPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $1,200 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODIndividual grant recipient — $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLIVEWELL — $400 · OtherLIVEWELLMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger — $300 · Other+7 more — $750 · Other+7 moreLIVEWELL FOUNDATION — $1,450 · HealthLIVEWELL FOUNDATIO…LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER — $100 · HealthLIVING BEYOND BREA…BRYN MAWR THEATRE FILM INSTITUTE — $300 · Arts & CultureWHYY INC — $300 · Arts & CultureMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $300 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $250 · InternationalTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $250 · EducationPhilabundance — $100 · Food & Nutrition
Other$6,600Health$1,550Arts & Culture$600International$550Education$250Food & Nutrition$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLIVEWELL FOUNDATION — $1,450 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBRYN MAWR THEATRE FILM INSTITUTE — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds LIVEWELL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BRYN MAWR THEATRE FILM INSTITUTE
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger
  • Who funds WHYY INC
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
  • Who funds LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER
  • Who funds Philabundance

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Jack Ehrlich Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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 · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Jack Ehrlich Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jack Ehrlich Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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