· Private foundation
Jacob and Anita Penzer 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k48 grants · $119k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $129k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
- $250k+1 grant · $346k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EILAT CHARITIES | $345,790 |
| AREYVUT AGRICULTURAL JEWISH LEARNING | $57,940 |
| CHABAD OF THE PUERTO RICO | $39,660 |
| THE BASS MUSEUM | $31,156 |
| HAFTR | $29,000 |
| KSPACE MIAMI | $15,000 |
| LOCUSTS PROJECTS | $13,926 |
| ARTISTS 4 ISRAEL | $8,400 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHEVRA KADISHA | $7,000 |
| FAENA ARTS | $6,109 |
| ZOO MIAMI FOUNDATION | $5,900 |
| INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $5,665 |
| CORPORACION PARA EL DESARROLLO DE ESCUEL | $5,000 |
| THE TRIBE 18 INC | $5,000 |
| 2022 ACT SOCIETY | $5,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
105 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 72 since wound down; 20 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF CHABAD LUBAVITCH BOLIVIA5× · 2020–2024 · $144k · revenue +51%
- ZMZOO MIAMI FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2024 · $91k · revenue +23%
- VMVIZCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS TRUST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +498%
Funded once
- BTBeit T'Shuvahgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $28k · revenue +74%
- LILONG ISLAND HOUSING SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +68%
- AFAVANT-GARDE FOSTER FAMILY CAREone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
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Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
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Avodah develops lifelong social justice leaders whose work is informed by jewish values and who inspire the jewish community to work toward a more just and equitable world.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices for Children Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Tribe 18 Inc. 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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
130 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. 130 of the 351 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 AT-RISK COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LONG ISLAND SUPPORTIVE ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHABAD LUBAVITCH BOLIVIA ↗
- Who funds ZOO MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIZCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW OASIIIS INC ↗
- Who funds LONG ISLAND HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAENA ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CHASDEI YISROEL INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Arizonans on Campus ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
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 Miami Foundation Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · United Way Miami Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · The Kirk Foundation · Fjc · The Jmg Foundation · Albert H and Jane D Nahmad Foundation Inc · Swieca Children Foundation · Cobb Family Foundation Inc · The Ezra Charitable Trust
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 Jacob and Anita Penzer 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Kristi House Inc — 49% of income from government
- Voices for Children Foundation Inc — 48% of income from government
- Helping Arms Inc Co Emet Realty — 38% of income from government
- Urban Oasis Project Inc — 12% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc — 4% of income from government
- Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Jackson Health Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Ann Storck Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- Chapman Partnership Inc — 0% of income from government
- Zoo Miami Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- St Thomas University Inc — 0% 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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