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Jean Axelrod Memorial Foundation Inc at a glance

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Jean Axelrod Memorial Foundation Inc

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.

$37k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$200kInternational$159kHealth$71kFood & Nutrition$35kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kPhilanthropy$25kEducation$22kHuman Services$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
$11,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLATEAU STATE ASSOCIATION- USA$15,000
PACH INC$11,000
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE EDUCATIONAL FUN$10,000
CHANCE OF ACADEMY$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT: $1k → 21%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
NY
OH
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$532k · 11 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
18

Total granted

$532k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+64%

Still filing today

45%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationCivil RightsFood & NutritionHealthEmploymentOther
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

  • PF
    PARTNERS FOR ANDEAN COMMUNITY HEALTH INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $147k · revenue +28%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +21%
  • CA
    CHANCE ACADEMY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $22k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +80%
  • HI
    HIAS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -28%
  • TD
    THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +96%
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
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
4
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
5
West Side Center for Community Life

To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…

Youth Development
6
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
7
Food for the Hungry Inc

Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…

International
8
Handicap International

Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.

International
9
Childfund Alliance

Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…

International
10
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
11
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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12
Connecticut Foodshare Inc

The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Central Kitchen Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners for Andean Community Health 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

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPERATION UNDERSTANDING OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: $102,400 · OtherOPERATION UNDERSTANDING OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIANAACP LEGAL DEFENSE EDUCATIONAL FUN: $98,000 · OtherNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE EDUCATIONAL FUNPACH INC: $41,000 · OtherPACH INCPLATEAU STATE ASSOCIATION USA: $25,000 · OtherPLATEAU STATE ASSOCIATION USA46TH ST CLUB HOUSE: $20,000 · Other46TH ST CLUB HOUSESO OTHERS MAY EAT: $19,000 · OtherSO OTHERS MAY EATBEND THE ARC: $16,500 · Other+7 more: $24,000 · Other+7 morePARTNERS FOR ANDEAN COMMUNITY HEALTH INC: $147,000 · InternationalPARTNERS FOR ANDEAN COMMUNITY HEALTH…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $30,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCHIAS INC: $7,000 · International+2 more: $5,000 · InternationalCHANCE ACADEMY: $22,000 · EducationAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $1,000 · EducationHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $11,000 · HealthWALTER REED SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · HealthCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $9,000 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionCENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC: $3,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $1,000 · Civil RightsFREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT: $1,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH LABOR COMMITTEE: $1,000 · Employment
Other$345,900International$189,000Education$23,000Health$12,000Food & Nutrition$12,000Civil Rights$4,000Human Services$1,000Employment$1,000

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 budgetPARTNERS FOR ANDEAN COMMUNITY HEALTH INC: $147,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetOPERATION UNDERSTANDING OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: $102,400 over 4y, 14% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHANCE ACADEMY: $22,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALTER REED SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH LABOR COMMITTEE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Jean Axelrod Memorial Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jean Axelrod Memorial Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Manna Food Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 29 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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