· Private foundation
John J Flemm 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HACKENSACK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL | $33,000 |
| CONGREGATION AHAVATH TORAH | $16,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF EZRA MIZION | $14,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,750 |
| HATZALAH OF ROCKAWAY AND FIVE TOWNS | $3,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM | $3,000 |
| TOMCHEI SHABBOS FIVE TOWNS | $3,000 |
| MORIAH SCHOOL OF ENGLEWOOD | $2,000 |
| EMUNAH OF AMERICA INC | $2,000 |
| KAPLEN JCC ON THE PALISADES | $2,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF NNJ | $2,000 |
| LONG BEACH ART LEAGUE INC | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 14% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCentral Fund of Israel3× · 2023–2025 · $92k · revenue +31%
- MSMORIAH SCHOOL OF ENGLEWOOD3× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +18%
- THThe Halachic Organ Donor Society Inc DBA Ematai2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- SSSEE SCH # 2one grant, 2018 · $119k
- CBCONGREGATION BETH JACOB OAKLANDone grant, 2023 · $3k
- TITHE IDEA SCHOOL INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel Incs mission is to illuminate authentic Torah Judaism in Israel and the diaspora. This Modern Orthodox movement is shaping Jewish communities worldwide, fueled by a comprehensive educational network,…
To provide educational assistance to underprivileged gifted children in israel.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
To cultivate students' intellectual, moral and creative capacities to the fullest by transmitting the necessary skills and methods that enable students to master all areas of torah scholarship.
To promote the furtherance of jewish religious and rabbinic education on a college and graduate level in israel and to increase the dissemination of scholarly research works in the fields of torah, talmud and halacha.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 43 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Lee and Cheryl Lasher Family Foundation Inc · Fjc · H&H Charitable Foundation · M D Katz Foundation Inc · The Arthur & Joyce Fein Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · Cross River Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John J Flemm Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John J Flemm Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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