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Jaffe Charitable Foundation

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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$139kHuman Services$27kEducation$26kPublic Benefit$19kFood & Nutrition$11kEnvironment$2kInternational$600
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$100
Median grant
2
States reached
$448k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF$14,781
TELSHE YESHIVA$1,500
KOLLEL YAD CHAIM MORDECHAI$600
TORAH LIFE INSTITUTE$500
CONGREGATION SHOMER SHABBOS$500
TORAH SCHOOLS FOR ISRAEL$500
JEWISH LEARNING CONNECTION$250
AISH HATORAH$250
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PROTECTION OF$200
HILLEL FOUNDATION$200
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL$100
HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND$100
CLEVELAND COMMUNITY MIKVEH$100
Individual grant recipient$100
CHABAD$100
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TELSHE YESHIVA: $2k → 9%OSU CHABAD: $2k → 15%HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $19k → 17%ILLINOIS HILLEL: $2k → 19%TELSHE YESHIVA: $2k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%TELSHE YESHIVA: $2k → 9%KOLLEL YAD CHAIM MORDECHAI: $1k → 17%TELSHE YESHIVA: $2k → 9%KOLLEL YAD CHAIM MORDECHAI: $1k → 17%TELSHE YESHIVA: $2k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY EXPERIENCE: $1k → 17%TELSHE YESHIVA: $2k → 9%BEACHWOOD KEHILLA: $1k → 17%TELSHE YESHIVA: $2k → 9%KOLLEL YAD CHAIM MORDECHAI: $1k → 17%TELSHE YESHIVA: $2k → 9%KOLLEL YAD CHAIM MORDECHAI: $1k → 17%KOLLEL YAD CHAIM MORDECHAI: $1k → 17%KOLLEL YAD CHAIM MORDECHAI: $600 → 17%KOLLEL YAD CHAIM MORDECHAI: $600 → 17%TORAH SCHOOLS FOR ISRAEL: $1k → 17%KOLLEL YAD CHAIM MORDECHAI: $600 → 17%TORAH SCHOOLS FOR ISRAEL: $500 → 17%KOLLEL YAD CHAIM MORDECHAI: $500 → 17%TORAH SCHOOLS FOR ISRAEL: $500 → 17%TORAH SCHOOLS FOR ISRAEL: $500 → 17%TORAH SCHOOLS FOR ISRAEL: $500 → 17%TORAH SCHOOLS FOR ISRAEL: $500 → 17%TORAH SCHOOLS FOR ISRAEL: $500 → 17%TORAH SCHOOLS FOR ISRAEL: $500 → 17%TORAH SCHOOLS FOR ISRAEL: $500 → 17%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 17%CWRU HILLEL: $2k → 17%JECC: $19k → 17%JECC: $18k → 17%JEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF CLEVELAN: $18k → 17%HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $17k → 17%JEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF: $15k → 17%MATAN B'SAYSER: $11k → 17%JECC: $10k → 17%JECC: $5k → 17%HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $2k → 17%HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $2k → 17%HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $2k → 17%HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $850 → 17%CONGREGATION SHOMER SHABBOS: $600 → 17%TORAH LIFE INSTITUTE: $600 → 17%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$165k · 27 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
10

Total granted

$165k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+121%

Still filing today

26%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionPublic BenefitPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • JE
    JEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF CLEVELAND
    2× · 2021–2025 · $32k · revenue +79%
  • GC
    GMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION)
    9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +12%
  • MB
    Matan BSayser of Cleveland Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • HI
    HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $18k
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +18%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
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
Mesivta of Cleveland Dba Yeshivas Toras

Operation of an all male Religious Orthodox Jewish High School

Education
2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
Agudath Israel of Ohio Inc

To unite all Jews in the spirit of the Torah, by various means, including, but not limited to disseminating information through publications, meetings, and seminars, and by cooperating with other charitable organizations to achieve these…

Human Services
4
Partners in Torah of Cleveland Inc

To offer all Jews, regardless of affiliation, the opportunity to discover the Torah at their pace and schedule.

Human Services
5
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
6
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
7
Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship
Religion
8
University of Judaism Foundation
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9
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
10
Gemilas Chesed Kramer Inc
Philanthropy
11
Cleveland Kashruth Organization Inc

Strengthen Kosher food standards and knowledge

Religion
12
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland Ohio; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel 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

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 39 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JECC: $52,445 · OtherJECCHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $23,350 · OtherHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELANDHEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY: $17,573 · OtherHEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETYTELSHE YESHIVA: $12,000 · OtherTELSHE YESHIVAKOLLEL YAD CHAIM MORDECHAI: $7,300 · OtherTORAH SCHOOLS FOR ISRAEL: $5,000 · Other+25 more: $30,350 · Other+25 moreJEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF CLEVELAND: $32,360 · ReligionJEWISH EDUCATION CENTE…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $9,610 · ReligionJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE …+3 more: $1,600 · ReligionGMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION): $19,465 · Public BenefitGMILUTH C…Matan BSayser of Cleveland Inc: $11,100 · PhilanthropyYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $1,648 · Education
Other$148,018Religion$43,570Public Benefit$19,465Philanthropy$11,100Education$1,648

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 budgetJEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF CLEVELAND: $32,360 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $23,350 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION): $19,465 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetMatan BSayser of Cleveland Inc: $11,100 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $9,610 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTORAH SCHOOLS FOR ISRAEL: $5,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Learning Connection: $1,650 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $1,648 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NATURE IN ISRAEL INC: $1,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHABAD BAHIA BLANCA: $1,250 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetChabad of Columbus Inc: $250 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds GMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION) ↗
  • Who funds Matan BSayser of Cleveland Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ↗
  • Who funds TORAH SCHOOLS FOR ISRAEL ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Learning Connection ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NATURE IN ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds CHABAD BAHIA BLANCA ↗
  • Who funds Chabad of Columbus Inc ↗
  • Who funds Cleveland Community Mikvah Inc ↗

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.

Jewish Federation of …The Teri and Dan Germ…Marla & Joseph Shafra…Irving I Stone Founda…The Albert B & Audrey…National Society for …The Wuliger FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Federation of ClevelandOH21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Teri and Dan German Family Foundation Inc · Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation · Irving I Stone Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · The Wuliger Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 Jaffe Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jaffe Charitable Foundation. 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Jaffe Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jaffe Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 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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