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Judith & David Wachs Family 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.

$299k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of JUDITH & DAVID WACHS FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 39 grants below total $238,051 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $299,250 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $61,199 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$3,600
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Perelman Jewish Day School$50,000
Shalom Hartman Institute of North America$25,000
Jewish Fed of Greater Phila$10,000
Pennsylvania Education Partnership LLC$10,000
The Hebron Fund$10,000
Vandiver-Moylan American Legion Post 355$10,000
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$10,000
Friends of the Lone Soldier$10,000
Scholars for Peace in the Middle East$10,000
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$7,200
Chabad of Lubavitch of Central New York$5,000
Chabad Center at University of Colorado$5,000
FLAME (Facts and Logic about the Middle East)$5,000
Dr. Paty's Research (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Ce$5,000
The Giving Back Fund$5,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$579k · 9 repeat orgs$223k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

$579k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+59%

Still filing today

56%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyPublic BenefitHealthOther

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

  • RA
    RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL
    4× · 2020–2024 · $417k · revenue +50%
  • FF
    Foundation for Cognitive Therapy and Research
    2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +8%
  • MU
    MOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • YS
    YOUNG SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +39%
  • TO
    Trustee of the Univ of Penn
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • BI
    Beck Institutefor Cognitive Behavior
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
Sherit Isroel
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2
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
3
University of Judaism Foundation
—
4
Belev Echad Inc

Belev echad is an international nonprofit dedicated to restoring the wounded men and women of the idf back to life through physical, medical, legal, emotional, and financial support. our extensive therapies and programs help the soldiers…

Human Services
5
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
6
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
7
Boundless Israel Inc

The organization is a think-action tank partnering with community leaders to revitalize israel education and take bold collective action to combat jew-hatred.

Education
8
Israel Initiative 2020 Inc
International
9
Ohr Meir Ubracha

The organization provides financial assistance to victims of acts of terrorism in the state of israel.

Philanthropy
10
The Shalem Foundation

To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.

Crime & Legal
11
Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International
12
Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc
Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChildhood Cancer SupportAnimal Rescue and ShelterJewish Community FederationsVeteran Support ServicesCharter and Independent Sch…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%8%<5yr13%4%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr17%46%20–35yr15%17%35–55yr17%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%3%<5yr13%2%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr17%71%20–35yr15%8%35–55yr17%6%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
1/25
the rest of the field
9%
7,128/78,137

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.

03the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
10/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $417,000 · OtherRAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOLFoundation for Cognitive Therapy and Research — $40,000 · OtherFoundation for Cognitive Therapy and ResearchCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF THE MAIN LINE INC — $24,000 · Other+25 more — $139,929 · Other+25 moreTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA — $25,000 · InternationalTHE SHALO…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $19,622 · InternationalFRIENDS O…SCHOLARS FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST — $11,800 · InternationalSCHOLARS …BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $4,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGH…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $2,500 · InternationalMICHAEL LEVIN LONE SOLDIER FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · International+1 more — $1,000 · InternationalLUBAVITCH HOUSE AT PENN INC — $44,800 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE LONE SOLDIER INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyHEBRON FUND INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING BACK FUND — $5,000 · PhilanthropyMOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC — $20,000 · ReligionIndian Valley Veterans Fund — $16,000 · Recreation & SportsYOUNG SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationOrot — $5,000 · Education
Other$620,929International$66,422Human Services$45,800Philanthropy$25,000Religion$20,000Recreation & Sports$16,000Education$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $417,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetLUBAVITCH HOUSE AT PENN INC — $44,800 over 4y, 12% of budgetFoundation for Cognitive Therapy and Research — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $19,622 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndian Valley Veterans Fund — $16,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetSCHOLARS FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST — $11,800 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LONE SOLDIER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNG SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEBRON FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans Multi-Service Center Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RELIEF FOUNDATION INC — $3,600 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $2,554 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHAEL LEVIN LONE SOLDIER FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Katz Family Charitabl…The Specter FoundationSeed the Dream Founda…Erlbaum Family Founda…Jewish Federation of …National Philanthropi…Jewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Renaissance Charitabl…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…
Katz Family Charitable TrustPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Katz Family Charitable Trust · The Specter Foundation · Seed the Dream Foundation · Erlbaum Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $301k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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