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Kenny Jacob Rudin Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$28kRecreation & Sports$12kHuman Services$6kReligion$4kEducation$3kArts & Culture$1kCrime & Legal$500Philanthropy$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$550
Median grant
4
States reached
$55k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KESHET$1,500
RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST$1,000
HELPING HANDS NETWORK$550
DEERFIELD HIGH SCHOOL$500
JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT$500
HELP HOPE LIVE FOUNDATION$300
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 (FY22–22, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NORTH SHORE HELPERS: $100 → 8%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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
OH
PA
CT
MD
DC
TX

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$47k · 11 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
19

Total granted

$47k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+3%

Still filing today

55%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther

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

  • K
    KESHET
    4× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +53%
  • HH
    HELPING HANDS NETWORK INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue +5%
  • CM
    CHARLES M SCHWARTZ MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • HI
    HELPHOPELIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +35%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -11%
  • GI
    GASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $515 · revenue -82%

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
The Goldstein Family Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Evan Joseph Gerstein Foundation
Health
3
The Diane Stilwell Weinberg Foundation
Human Services
4
The Steinman Foundation
5
Dysimmune Diseases Foundation
Health
6
Schnitzer-Novack Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Himmelstein Family Foundation
8
The Milstein Family Foundation
Philanthropy
9
The Lichtenstein Family Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Schwartz's Foundation
11
The Schwartz Charitable Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
12
The Deutsch Foundation
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helphopelive Inc and the most unlike its peers is North Shore Helpers. 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

18 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. 18 of the 32 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KESHET — $16,000 · OtherKESHETDEERFIELD PARK FOUNDATION — $11,719 · OtherDEERFIELD PARK FOUNDATIONAM SHALOM — $3,500 · OtherAM SHALOMDEERFIELD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $1,500 · OtherRHETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TR — $1,500 · OtherDEERFIELD HIGH SCHOOL — $1,300 · Other+10 more — $2,782 · Other+10 moreCHARLES M SCHWARTZ MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $2,500 · HealthCHARLES M SCHWAR…RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC — $2,000 · HealthRETT SYNDROME RE…HELPHOPELIVE INC — $1,000 · HealthHELPHOPELIVE INCDANNY DID FOUNDATION — $612 · HealthDANNY DID FOUNDA…GASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $515 · HealthGASTRO INTESTINA…RORY DAVID DEUTSCH FOUNDATION — $500 · HealthRORY DAVID DEUTS…CANCER WELLNESS CENTER — $500 · HealthCANCER WELLNESS …+2 more — $346 · HealthHELPING HANDS NETWORK INC — $5,875 · Youth DevelopmentHELPING HAND…+1 more — $105 · Youth DevelopmentThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $1,000 · Arts & CultureEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $500 · Crime & LegalJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT — $500 · PhilanthropyWagner Family Fire Fund Inc — $100 · Public Safety & DisasterNorth Shore Helpers — $100 · Human Services
Other$38,301Health$7,973Youth Development$5,980Arts & Culture$1,000Crime & Legal$500Philanthropy$500Public Safety & Disaster$100Human Services$100

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 budgetKESHET — $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDEERFIELD PARK FOUNDATION — $11,719 over 2y, 15% of budgetHELPING HANDS NETWORK INC — $5,875 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCHARLES M SCHWARTZ MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANNY DID FOUNDATION — $612 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRORY DAVID DEUTSCH FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER WELLNESS CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EMILY STILLMAN FOUNDATION — $246 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEASTER SEALS - CENTRAL TEXAS INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWagner Family Fire Fund Inc — $100 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNorth Shore Helpers — $100 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Jarvis FoundationIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jarvis Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Kenny Jacob Rudin Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Kenny Jacob Rudin Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kenny Jacob Rudin Foundation 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 32 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.

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