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Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$77M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
284
Grants FY2024
176
Organizations funded FY2023
31%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$11,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$35,080,374
Organizations funded a year
119 to 176
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
18
Total assets, FY2024
$3.6B
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalReligionPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving178$69M23%
FY2023176$76M31%
FY2022139$72M27%
FY2021122$49M39%
FY2020119$42Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$131MEducation$84MArts & Culture$53MHealth$33MInternational$7.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$7.4MHuman Services$6.6MRecreation & Sports$6.3MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 229 grantees
All grantees of Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Musical Arts Association$39,257,522518%
Secure Community Network Inc$7,245,000422%
Western Reserve Land Conservancy$5,442,256211%
Case Western Reserve University$4,079,90050%
Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation$4,020,000438%
American Academy of Arts & Sciences$3,938,21448%
Jerusalem Foundation Inc$3,365,00049%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc$3,070,00031%
Cleveland Museum of Natural History$3,022,50059%
Western Reserve Historical Society$3,010,000330%
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc$2,975,00052%
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation$2,511,12259%
United Way of Greater Cleveland$2,416,75039%
Cleveland State University Foundation$2,048,80945%
Youth Opportunities Unlimited$1,632,50054%
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$1,600,00032%
Jewish Review of Books Foundation$1,505,500330%
Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland Ohio$1,335,50045%
Neighborhood Progress Inc$1,335,000314%
Providence House Inc$1,250,000328%
Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc$1,153,75051%
Jewish Funders Network$1,050,00052%
Ohio City Incorporated$1,025,000261%
The Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority Inc$1,000,000111%
The Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland$923,69934%
Friends of Breakthrough Schools$912,64133%
Jewish Community Centers Association of North America$900,00053%
University Settlement Inc$795,000218%
Cleveland Jewish Publication Company Foundation$756,000478%
Midtown Cleveland Inc$640,000513%
Lorain County Community College Foundation$616,15927%
Jewish Community Legacy Project Inc$600,000262%
Central Fund of Israel$575,00020%
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$550,00011%
Bunker Hill Community College Foundation Inc$497,11327%
Jewish Education Center of Cleveland$475,00043%
Land Studio Inc$455,00038%
Cleveland Museum of Art$438,90250%
Yeshiva Derech Hatorah$390,00051%
Fuchs Mizrachi Schools$385,00051%
Struggle to Save Ethiopian Jewryinc$350,000210%
Joseph & Florence Mandel Jewish Day School$342,00051%
Gross Schechter Day School$310,00052%
Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation Inc$309,000221%
Eleanor B Rainey Memorial Institute$266,000515%
Partnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools$250,00011%
Honeymoon Israel Foundation Inc$250,00021%
Nonprofit Finance Fund$250,00040%
Journey Center for Safety and Healing$233,00053%
Cleveland Public Library Foundation$217,000418%
Friends of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Designs Inc$200,00017%
Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc$200,00021%
Chaviva High School$200,000310%
Chronicle of a People Foundation Inc$200,000211%
City Mission$190,0005n/a
The Jewish Museum$175,00031%
Senior Transportation Connection$175,00015%
Young Womens Christian Association of Cleveland Ohio$166,33441%
Jewish Home Life Communities Inc$150,00050%
Nli USA Inc$150,00011%
Young Judaea Global Inc$150,00012%
Nechama - Jewish Response to Disaster$150,000112%
Jewish Arts Collaborative Inc$150,000110%
Friendship Circle of Cleveland Inc$150,00033%
Ort America Inc$145,00031%
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund$142,50050%
The Museum of Language Arts Inc$125,00024%
The Cleveland Institute of Art$112,50010%
Friends of Jcc Krakow Inc$100,00013%
Global Cleveland$100,00015%
Temple Beth Zion$100,0001n/a
Jewish Community Center of Asheville Inc$100,00013%
American Friends of Leket Israel Inc$87,50030%
Adamah Inc$85,00011%
Montefiore Foundation$75,000110%
American Friends of the Israel Museum$75,00011%
West Park Kamm's Neighborhood Development$75,00025%
Bikur Cholim of Cleveland$75,00024%
Museum of the American Revolution$75,00030%
St Clair Superior Development Corporation$71,40019%
The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage$65,00032%
Park Synagogue$62,5004n/a
Congregation Mishkan Or$60,0001n/a
Near Westside MultiService Corp$57,50031%
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Inc$57,50040%
Cleveland Public Theatre Inc$56,00051%
Piano International Assoc of Northern Oh$55,50042%
The Felicia Penzell Weber Jewish Community High School Inc$55,00040%
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland$54,00040%
Birthing Beautiful Communities$50,30011%
Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston$50,00010%
The United Jewish Cemeteries$50,00044%
College Now Greater Cleveland Inc$50,00050%
Economic Growth Foundation$50,00050%
Tzedek Social Justice Fund$50,00011%
The Network for Research in Jewish Education Inc$50,000226%
Modern Warrior Live$50,00039%
Zionist Rabbinic Coalition Inc$50,000114%
The Children's Museum of Cleveland$50,00051%
Wnet$50,00010%
American Friends of Shaalei Torah Inc$50,000152%
Green Road Synagogue$50,0001n/a
Jcc Global USA Inc$50,00029%
University Circle Incorporated$47,50050%
B'Nai Jeshurun Congregation$47,1002n/a
Ideastream$45,00050%
Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center$44,37752%
Bessies Angels$43,85457%
Telos Leadership Foundation$40,000212%
Jewish Kids Group Foundation Inc$40,00011%
United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland Inc$37,50051%
Neighborhood Pets$37,00033%
Friends of Givat Haviva$35,00031%
Dickinson College$35,00040%
Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center$35,00050%
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland$35,00050%
Cleveland Institute of Music$32,50050%
Cleveland Society for the Blind$32,50050%
Intonation Music Workshop$32,50022%
North Shore Congregation Israel$32,5002n/a
Ohio Contemporary Ballet$31,50042%
Kol Israel Foundation Inc$30,00036%
Israel Nature and Heritage Foundati$30,00014%
Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry$30,00010%
Chabad of Downtown Cleveland$30,0001n/a
Meor Inc$30,00010%
Touro Synagogue$30,0002n/a
Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio$29,00050%
Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland$25,00020%
International Rescue Committee INC$25,00010%
Apopo US Inc$25,00011%
Jefferson-Puritas West Park CDC$25,00012%
Recess Cleveland$25,00034%
Circle Health Services$25,00050%
Slavic Village Development$25,00011%
Recovery Resources$25,00050%
Cleveland Zoological Society$24,50050%
Teach for America Inc$24,00010%
Diversity Center of Northeast Ohio$23,50021%
Vocational Guidance Services$21,50040%
The Cleveland Music School Settlement$21,00050%
Surf Point Foundation$20,00013%
Art of Me Productions$20,00027%
Cleveland Restoration Society Inc$20,00050%
Bravo Colorado at Beaver Creek-Vail Inc Dba Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival$19,50020%
Men and Women of Central$19,5003n/a
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$18,60030%
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience$18,00011%
Children First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation$17,50020%
The Center for Community Solutions$17,50050%
The Fishing Foundation$17,0002n/a
Cleveland Metropolitan School District$17,0001n/a
Shoes and Clothes for Kids$17,00050%
The City Club of Cleveland$15,00040%
Rollinbuckeyez Foundation$15,000223%
The Gathering Place$15,00011%
Seeds of Literacy$15,00011%
KBY Congregations Together Inc$15,00011%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$15,00020%
Food Depot to Health Incorporated$14,5002n/a
Semach Sedek R I a S Synagogue$13,6004n/a
Harvard Community Services Center$12,51311%
New Orleans Museum of Art$12,50020%
Cleveland Botanical Garden$12,50050%
Standup for Change$12,1902100%
Collectivexpress Incorporated$12,000213%
Brandon Merritt Charitable Foundation Inc$11,25042%
Group Plan Commission$10,54711%
Emory University$10,00010%
Inmotion$10,00011%
Medical Debt Resolution Inc$10,00010%
SPACE Gallery$10,00011%
Hands on Tzedakah Inc$10,00010%
The Negev Foundation$10,00011%
The Coding School$10,00011%
The Metrohealth Foundation Inc$10,00010%
American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc$10,00010%
Hospice of the Western Reserve Inc$10,00010%
Leo Baeck Institute Inc$10,00010%
Cleveland Chesed Center$10,00012%
Edna House for Women Inc$10,00011%
Greater Cleveland Volunteers$10,00050%
Hasani Management Inc$9,2763n/a
The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges$8,50050%
Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio$8,00040%
Gardening in the District Non-Profit Organization$7,7351n/a
NA'AMAT USA The Women's Labor Zionist Organization of America$7,50010%
Techboom$7,5002n/a
Diaper Bank of Greater Cleveland$7,5001n/a
Na Amat USA$7,5001n/a
Lakewood Community Services Center Inc$7,50010%
Burning River Soccer Club$7,0001n/a
Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation$6,50010%
Geauga County Humane Society Inc$6,41620%
Candid$6,00040%
Providence House$6,00010%
Western Reserve Fire Museum at Cleveland Inc$6,00031%
Towards Employment Inc$5,00010%
Philanthropy Ohio$5,00010%
The Cahn Fellows Programs$5,00010%
Hola Ohio$5,00011%
Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois Inc$5,00010%
Hope and Healing Survivor Resource Center$5,00010%
Jewish Agency for Israel - North American Council$5,00010%
Junior Achievement of Greater Cleveland$5,00050%
Beat the Streets Cleveland$5,00011%
Southeast Cleveland Resource Center$4,5001n/a
Queen Iam$4,5001n/a
Geaux Girl Media$4,1003n/a
United Service Organizations Inc$4,00040%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$4,00040%
B'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization$4,00020%
American Jewish Committee$3,05020%
The Posse Foundation Inc$3,00030%
Rape Crisis Center$3,00010%
Rekindle$3,00013%
Chn Housing Partners$2,50010%
Kings & Queens of Art$2,5001n/a
Zamir Choral Foundation Inc$2,50010%
The Cleveland Animal Protective League$2,00010%
United States Fund for Unicef$2,00020%
Pro Bono Publico Foundation$2,00020%
Medwish Medworks$2,00010%
Menorah Park Foundation$1,50010%
Playhouse Square Foundation$1,20010%
Grow Dat Youth Farm$1,00010%
Congregation Beth El$5001n/a
E III Inc$43840%
T a P E I Inc$11n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 72 recipients with no EIN on record ($189M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $39,257,522 over 5y, 18% of budgetSecure Community Network Inc: $7,245,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetWestern Reserve Land Conservancy: $5,442,256 over 2y, 11% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $4,079,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMt Sinai Health Care Foundation: $4,020,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetAmerican Academy of Arts & Sciences: $3,938,214 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetJerusalem Foundation Inc: $3,365,000 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $3,070,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCleveland Museum of Natural History: $3,022,500 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetWestern Reserve Historical Society: $3,010,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetAmerican Friends of Hebrew University Inc: $2,975,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCuyahoga Community College Foundation: $2,511,122 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cleveland: $2,416,750 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetCleveland State University Foundation: $2,048,809 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetYouth Opportunities Unlimited: $1,632,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetFriends of United Hatzalah Inc: $1,600,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetJewish Review of Books Foundation: $1,505,500 over 3y, 30% of budgetJewish Family Service Association of Cleveland Ohio: $1,335,500 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetNeighborhood Progress Inc: $1,335,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetProvidence House Inc: $1,250,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetGreater Cleveland Food Bank Inc: $1,153,750 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetJewish Funders Network: $1,050,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetOhio City Incorporated: $1,025,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetThe Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetThe Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland: $923,699 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetFriends of Breakthrough Schools: $912,641 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetJewish Community Centers Association of North America: $900,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetUniversity Settlement Inc: $795,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCleveland Jewish Publication Company Foundation: $756,000 over 4y, 78% of budgetMidtown Cleveland Inc: $640,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetLorain County Community College Foundation: $616,159 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetJewish Community Legacy Project Inc: $600,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $575,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: $550,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBunker Hill Community College Foundation Inc: $497,113 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetJewish Education Center of Cleveland: $475,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetLand Studio Inc: $455,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetCleveland Museum of Art: $438,902 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYeshiva Derech Hatorah: $390,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFuchs Mizrachi Schools: $385,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetStruggle to Save Ethiopian Jewryinc: $350,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetJoseph & Florence Mandel Jewish Day School: $342,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetGross Schechter Day School: $310,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCentral Europe Center for Research and Documentation Inc: $309,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetEleanor B Rainey Memorial Institute: $266,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetPartnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools: $250,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHoneymoon Israel Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNonprofit Finance Fund: $250,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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 Cleveland FoundationOH105.9× affinity70 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel 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.

About Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation

How much does Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation give?
Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation reported 284 grants totaling $77,003,582 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 119 and 176 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (37%), Education (24%), Arts & Culture (15%).
Who are Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Musical Arts Association ($39M), Secure Community Network Inc ($7.2M), Western Reserve Land Conservancy ($5.4M).
Does Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, Jewish Federation of Cleveland, The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation.
Where is Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation based?
Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation is based in OH.

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 316 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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