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Keystone 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
59% of Keystone Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Donors Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE DONORS FUND | $64,000 |
| YESHIVA BETH MOSHE | $13,535 |
| CONGREGATION BAIS MOSHE | $8,200 |
| MASORES BNOS YISROEL | $6,000 |
| TALMUD TORAH OF LAKEWOOD | $5,400 |
| AHAVAS YISROEL FUND | $3,750 |
| BELZ INSTITUTIONS IN ISRAEL | $2,750 |
| SCRANTON HEBREW DAY SCHOOL | $2,556 |
| BAIS YAAKOV ELEMENTRY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $795 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 26% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +5% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SHSCRANTON HEBREW DAY SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +5%
- FOFRIENDS OF BIKUR CHOLIM EZRAT ACHIM2× · 2021–2023 · $665 · revenue +45%
- RIROFEH INC3× · 2021–2023 · $303 · revenue +77%
Funded once
- TTTALMUD TORAH OF LAKEWOODone grant, 2023 · $4k
- CNCONGREGATION NER YISROEL INCone grant, 2021 · $3k
- EECHOone grant, 2022 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Religious School
To provide financial assistance to jewish educational and charitable causes.
Provide a building for a religious school.
Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
Religious Teaching
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chai Lifeline Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rofeh Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 28 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 DONORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MASORES BNOS YISROEL INC ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON HEBREW DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Yeshiva of Machzikai Hadas Inc ↗
- Who funds CHEDER TORAS ZEV ↗
- Who funds SHARE OF NEW SQUARE INC DBA CHESED 247 ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BIKUR CHOLIM EZRAT ACHIM ↗
- Who funds KOLEL CHIBAS JERUSALEM ↗
- Who funds ROFEH INC ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON RITUALARIUM ASSOCIATION MIKVAH YISROEL ↗
- 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.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Saul Schottenstein Foundation C · Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation · Donors Fund Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Keystone 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cheder Toras Zev — 22% of income from government
- Masores Bnos Yisroel Inc — 7% of income from government
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.