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Kameo Chesed Fund Inc at a glance

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Kameo Chesed Fund Inc

$75k
Granted FY2023
24
Grants FY2023
—
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 24 grants below total $40,801, the rows itemized in this filing. The $74,529 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $33,728 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k23 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
$310
Median grant
—
States reached
$343
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
Chesed Fund$501
Ohel simcha superfund$501
Ilan High School$501
ChesedFund Magen$310
Bridge Academy for Their Success$301
DEAL Torah Center$250
Venmo$202
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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.
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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
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

  • 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
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $19k
  • FO
    Friends of ETC Group
    one grant, 2021 · $16k
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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
3
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
4
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
5
Ohr Olam Corp

publish religious books

Religion
6
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
7
Ziv Israel Association
—
8
Yeshiva Yesodei Hachaim

To provide secondary high school education in Brooklyn, NY

—
9
Chabad Lametayel Inc

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

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10
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

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

Education
11
Yeshivat Leluv of Jerusalem Inc

Charitable work to help people in need

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12
Sherit Isroel
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lev Lalev Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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 67 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient: $18,679 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFriends 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundJack Adjmi Family Fou…The Madeb Family Foun…The Maj Franco Family…The Ralph S Gindi Fam…The Howard Hoffman & …The Amin and Lillian …Chehebar Family Found…Marbeh Shalom Foundat…The Setton FoundationThe Dabah Family Foun…The Celebrity Foundat…
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

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 Kameo Chesed Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kameo Chesed Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Beit Rambam Inc: 0% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 67 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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