· Private foundation
Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k103 grants · $317k
- $10k–50k89 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k50 grants · $5.4M
- $250k+42 grants · $70M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mandel Foundation - Israel | $35,080,374 |
| Cleveland Clinic Foundation | $6,250,000 |
| Jewish Federations of North America | $3,083,500 |
| Musical Arts Association | $3,000,000 |
| Western Reserve Land Conservancy | $2,100,000 |
| Musical Arts Association | $1,750,000 |
| American Friends of the Hebrew University | $1,250,000 |
| Musical Arts Association | $1,247,376 |
| Jewish Federations of North America | $1,000,000 |
| Case Western Reserve University | $1,000,000 |
| Western Reserve Land Conservancy | $1,000,000 |
| Jerusalem Foundation Inc | $750,000 |
| Jewish Federations of North America | $600,000 |
| Cleveland Public Library | $600,000 |
| Cleveland Public Library | $600,000 |
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.
Your US giving — 58% of grant dollars ($204M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 42% that went abroad ($148M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 42% of all-years giving ($148M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
172 repeat relationships — 137 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TMThe Musical Arts Association5× · 2020–2024 · $39M · revenue +45%
- SCSECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC4× · 2021–2024 · $7.2M · revenue +198%
- WRWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY2× · 2023–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +67%
Funded once
- CMCleveland Metroparksone grant, 2023 · $6.0M
- TFTHE FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY INCone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -83%
- ACAmerican Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Sone grant, 2022 · $406k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati develops and connects leaders, contributors, organizations, and ideas to build an inclusive Jewish community that helps people in need, supports Israel, and assures a vibrant Jewish future.
A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Standup for Change. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
220 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 220 of the 316 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds OHIO CITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY INC ↗
- Who funds The Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND JEWISH PUBLICATION COMPANY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDTOWN CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel 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.
- Adamah Inc — 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Jewish Federation of Delaware Inc — 6% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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