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Kameo Chesed Fund Inc

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.

$75k
Granted FY2023
24
Grants FY2023
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Religion$114kHuman Services$60kCivil Rights$38kCrime & Legal$30kEducation$22kHousing & Shelter$17kHealth$6kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0
02FY2023 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 24 grants below total $40,801 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $74,529 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $33,728 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k23 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
$310
Median grant
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hillel School Operation$20,599
Congregation Torat E$5,359
American Friends of Kollel$4,313
The Edmond J Safra$2,285
Charidy$1,529
Morris Franco Cancer Center$1,326
Our Place$1,111
DEAL Learning Program$578
Ilan High School$501
Ohel simcha superfund$501
Chesed Fund$501
ChesedFund Magen$310
Bridge Academy for Their Success$301
DEAL Torah Center$250
Venmo$202
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NechamaComfort: $501 → 7%Sephardic Bikur Holim: $3k → 20%Sephardic Bikur Holim: $2k → 20%Sephardic Bikur Holim: $201 → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your 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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$181k · 24 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 23 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
20

Total granted

$181k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+38%

Still filing today

38%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’23
ReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalFood & NutritionEducationOther

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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLLEL ZICHRON SHIMON
    3× · 2019–2021 · $7k · revenue +2%
  • SC
    SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $5k · revenue +67%
  • SF
    SAFE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • MA
    MAGEN AVRAHAM OF BROOKLYN
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • HY
    HILLEL YESHIVA
    one grant, 2021 · $19k
  • FO
    Friends of ETC Group
    one grant, 2021 · $16k

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

04Your 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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
3
Ohr Olam Corp

publish religious books

Religion
4
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
5
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
6
Ziv Israel Association
7
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

8
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
9
Yeshiva Yesodei Hachaim

To provide secondary high school education in Brooklyn, NY

10
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.

Education
11
Ohr Yisrael Yeshiva Inc

Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.

Religion
12
Chabad Lametayel Inc

encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lev Lalev Inc and the most unlike its peers is Concordia College. 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 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr16%5%5–10yr22%29%10–20yr20%43%20–35yr12%14%35–55yr9%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr16%1%5–10yr22%34%10–20yr20%24%20–35yr12%7%35–55yr9%34%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
12%
6,274/50,292

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.

04the grantee network

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 67 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Edmond J Safra — $38,523 · OtherThe Edmond J Safravarious — $33,870 · OthervariousMAGEN AVRAHAM OF BROOKLYN — $25,207 · OtherMAGEN AVRAHAM OF BROOKLYNIndividual grant recipient — $21,077 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHillel School Operation — $20,599 · OtherHillel School OperationCONCORDIA COLLEGE — $19,187 · OtherCONCORDIA COLLEGEHILLEL YESHIVA — $18,679 · OtherHILLEL YESHIVAFriends of ETC Group — $16,000 · OtherFriends of ETC GroupA TIME USA — $13,954 · OtherYESHIVAH OF FLATBUSH — $13,025 · Other+46 more — $54,238 · Other+46 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLLEL ZICHRON SHIMON — $6,669 · InternationalSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC — $5,056 · Human ServicesNECHAMACOMFORT INC — $501 · Human ServicesLEV LALEV INC — $2,376 · PhilanthropyLEV EZRA — $1,080 · PhilanthropyBEIT RAMBAM INC — $2,080 · ReligionYeshivat Lev Torah — $561 · ReligionTORAH LEARNING RESOURCES LTD — $174 · ReligionMAOR YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL INC — $1,102 · EducationSHARE OF NEW SQUARE INC DBA CHESED 247 — $1,001 · Food & NutritionCHAI LIFELINE INC — $754 · Health
Other$274,359International$6,669Human Services$5,557Philanthropy$3,456Religion$2,815Education$1,102Food & Nutrition$1,001Health$754

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCONCORDIA COLLEGE — $19,187 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLLEL ZICHRON SHIMON — $6,669 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC — $5,056 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE FOUNDATION INC — $2,602 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLEV LALEV INC — $2,376 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAOR YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL INC — $1,102 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEV EZRA — $1,080 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSHARE OF NEW SQUARE INC DBA CHESED 247 — $1,001 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC — $754 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYeshivat Lev Torah — $561 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNECHAMACOMFORT INC — $501 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTORAH LEARNING RESOURCES LTD — $174 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLLEL ZICHRON SHIMON
  • Who funds SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC
  • Who funds SAFE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds LEV LALEV INC
  • Who funds BEIT RAMBAM INC
  • Who funds MAOR YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds LEV EZRA
  • Who funds SHARE OF NEW SQUARE INC DBA CHESED 247
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY25.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Madeb Family Foundation · The Maj Franco Family Charitable Foundation · The Ralph S Gindi Family Foundation · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · The Amin and Lillian Adjmi Foundation · Chehebar Family Foundation · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · The Setton Foundation · The Dabah Family Foundation Inc · The Celebrity 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 Kameo Chesed Fund Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Beit Rambam Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Kameo Chesed Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Kameo Chesed Fund Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 67 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $22k 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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