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Kz Family Foundation at a glance

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Kz Family Foundation

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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$1.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Philanthropy$17MReligion$8.1MEducation$3.0MInternational$1.4MRecreation & Sports$50kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,900,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$119k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST (DONOR ADVISED TRUST)$1,900,000
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 (FY21–21, $400k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $400k → 11%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 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
Sherit Isroel
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4
Yeshiva Gedola Na'os Yaakov

A post-secondary school offering an educational program in talmudic study

Education
5
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
6
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
7
Mifal Tzedaka Vchesed Chasdei Aharo N Inc

Provide financial assistance to torah and talmudic scholars, as well as to other needy individuals and other organizations that work to promote these purposes.

Philanthropy
8
University of Judaism Foundation
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9
Yeshiva Knesseth Yisroel

To provide financial support to the yeshiva knesseth yisroel institution, its rabbis, and students, and lend support to other religious institutions in israel and around the world, with the goal of furthering jewish values among the jewish…

Philanthropy
10
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Yeshiva Ohr Torah

Promoting education by providing financial assistance and support services to educational organizations worldwide; to promote the jewish religion and jewish education through provision of educational programs, assisting the creation of…

Philanthropy
12
Kolel Damsek Eliezer

To provide a facility for jewish scholars to study for the rabbinate and to assist in the support of these families.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Yad Eliezer; the most unlike its peers is Yeshiva Gedolah of Elkins Park. 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

9 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. 9 of the 26 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST (DONOR ADVISED TRUST): $9,900,000 · OtherNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST (DONOR ADVISED TRUST)CHASE BZ CHARITY DONOR ADVISED FUND: $6,500,000 · OtherCHASE BZ CHARITY DONOR ADVISED FUNDKOLLEL SHABBOS KODESH (KARNOH SHEL TORAH): $2,400,000 · OtherKOLLEL SHABBOS KODESH (KARNOH SHEL TORAH)KOLEL BAIS BARUCH SANZ GRIBOV: $2,080,000 · OtherKOLEL BAIS BARUCH SANZ GRIBOVNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HEBREW DAY SCHOOLS (TU): $1,700,000 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HEBREW DAY SCHOOLS (TU)AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABINICAL COLLEGE OF TELZ ZTONE: $1,210,000 · Other+11 more: $1,392,300 · Other+11 moreSHAAREI SHMUOS INC: $1,300,000 · InternationalKOLEL CHIBAS JERUSALEM: $845,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF HADAR YISROEL NETANYA INC: $600,000 · ReligionYeshiva Gedolah of Elkins Park: $500,000 · ReligionTZUR FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · ReligionDONORS FUND INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyKEREN GEMILAS CHASODIM FOUNDATION CO READ PROPERTY GROUP: $125,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $400,000 · Human ServicesTOURO UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · Education
Other$25,182,300International$2,145,000Religion$1,200,000Philanthropy$625,000Human Services$400,000Education$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHAAREI SHMUOS INC: $1,300,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetKOLEL CHIBAS JERUSALEM: $845,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetFRIENDS OF HADAR YISROEL NETANYA INC: $600,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetDONORS FUND INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $400,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKEREN GEMILAS CHASODIM FOUNDATION CO READ PROPERTY GROUP: $125,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetTZUR FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 SHAAREI SHMUOS INC ↗
  • Who funds KOLEL CHIBAS JERUSALEM ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF HADAR YISROEL NETANYA INC ↗
  • Who funds DONORS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Yeshiva Gedolah of Elkins Park ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER ↗
  • Who funds KEREN GEMILAS CHASODIM FOUNDATION CO READ PROPERTY GROUP ↗
  • Who funds TZUR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TOURO UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

The Ojc FundJewish Communal FundMalchus FoundationJewish Community Foun…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
The Ojc FundNY22.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Malchus Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Kz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    1report 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, 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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Kz Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kz Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 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 (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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