· Private foundation
Jay & Hadasa Pomrenze 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 $10k13 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $203k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $66,035 |
| NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ISRAEL USA | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS ITIM INC | $40,000 |
| PARDES INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| AFIKIM FAMILY ENRICHMENT CENTERS | $18,000 |
| TZOHAR | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL | $15,000 |
| JEWISH BOOK TRUST | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS ERETZ HEMDAH | $10,400 |
| THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ISRAEL | $10,000 |
| JERUSALEM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MATAN | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NEVE MICHAEL | $10,000 |
| SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of Jay & Hadasa Pomrenze 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 +45% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERETZ HEMDAH8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +53%
- AFAmerican Friends of Puah Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $72k · revenue +235%
- TATHE AFIKIM FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $45k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $13k
- RDRABBIS DISCRETIONARY FUNDone grant, 2020 · $11k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To further jewish education in israel
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
To promote, assist, and sponsor the spreading of Jewish religious education in Israel. The organization will also organize inspirational gatherings in the USA to enhance the participants' Torah knowledge.
To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel
To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel
Provide aid to support and assist tax exempt Jewish religious education institutions or the equivalent in foreign countries.
Support of tzohar-a school for special needs children located in israel
Furtherance of jewish education
American Friends of Kulo Zakai Inc provides support to Jewish educational institutions that further religious observance, Torah study, and education in Israel and the US, in order to strengthen the continuity of the Jewish People.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Leket Israel Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Venice Center for International Jewish Studies Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 76 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
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 PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds NLI USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERETZ HEMDAH ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Puah Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AFIKIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Neve Michael Childrens Village Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BOOK TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MATAN INC ↗
- Who funds EZER MIZION ↗
- Who funds Israel Chai Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SEFARIA INC ↗
- Who funds ZICHRON TZVI ELIMELECH ↗
- Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIANS FOR FAIR WITNESS MIDDLE EAST ↗
- Who funds The Shalem Foundation ↗
- Who funds BEIT RABBAN DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMIC TORAH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds THE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Fjc · The Schoor Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Jay & Hadasa Pomrenze 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.
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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