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Lefkovits Family Foundation at a glance

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Lefkovits Family 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.

$315k
Granted FY2022
26
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Lefkovits Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Lefkovits Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 18 organizations, $315k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

14
’17
13
’18
8
’19
10
’20
18
’21
18
’22
0
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$7.4MReligion$681kEducation$140kHealth$101kInternational$87kArts & Culture$55kHuman Services$22kFood & Nutrition$12kOther$0
02FY2022 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k19 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$223k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RABBI PAYSACH RAYMON YESHIVA$100,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZOLAH$50,000
CONGREGATION AHAVAS ACHIM$50,000
RABBI JACOB JOSEPH SCHOOL$10,000
HALB$10,000
BEN PORAT YOSEF$10,000
YACHAD$10,000
CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL$7,000
YESH TIKVA$6,000
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM$5,000
JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE$5,000
KIDS OF COURAGE$5,000
BIKUR CHOLIM OF RARITAN VALLEY$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA$5,000
HATZOLAH OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY$5,000
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 (FY18–18, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ACHIEZER: $4k → 6%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 27 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
17

Total granted

$1.4M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+34%

Still filing today

48%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
HealthEducationArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    6× · 2017–2022 · $41k · revenue +145%
  • BP
    BEN PORAT YOSEF INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $40k · revenue +27%
  • CL
    CHAI LIFELINE INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • HA
    HEBREW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +53%
  • AJ
    ATLANTA JEWISH ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +50%
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
Sherit Isroel
—
3
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
4
Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship
Religion
5
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
6
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
7
Bais Medrash Mayan Hatorah

To provide religious education and services to our students in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith

—
8
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

—
9
University of Judaism Foundation
—
10
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Yad Laniyim
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Society for Yad Vashem Inc; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

22 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. 22 of the 49 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
18/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $3,685,162 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUNDFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $3,679,892 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZOLAH: $269,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF UNITE…Individual grant recipient: $236,150 · OtherIndividual grant…RABBI PESACH RAYMON YESHIVA: $197,000 · OtherRABBI PESACH RAY…Individual grant recipient: $120,000 · OtherIndividual grant…CONGREGATION AHAVAS ACHIM: $105,300 · OtherCONGREGATION AHA…RABBI JACOB JOSEPH SCHOOL: $78,100 · OtherRABBI JACOB JOSE…HASC: $57,000 · Other+26 more: $195,645 · Other+26 moreCHAI LIFELINE INC: $30,000 · HealthCHEVRA HATZOLAH OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC: $16,500 · HealthSharsheret Inc: $12,000 · HealthBIKUR CHOLIM OF RARITAN VALLEY: $11,000 · HealthYESH TIKVA INC: $10,500 · HealthBEN PORAT YOSEF INC: $40,000 · EducationATLANTA JEWISH ACADEMY INC: $10,000 · EducationSHULAMITH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $7,600 · EducationNAMES NOT NUMBERS INC: $2,000 · EducationCentral Fund of Israel: $41,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,000 · InternationalJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE: $23,600 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $180 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$3,685,162Community Improvement$3,679,892Other$1,258,195Health$80,000Education$59,600International$51,000Arts & Culture$38,780

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $3,685,162 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $3,679,892 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $41,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBEN PORAT YOSEF INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS OF COURAGE INC: $32,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE: $23,600 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHEVRA HATZOLAH OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC: $16,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOMCHEI SHABBOS OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC: $12,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM OF RARITAN VALLEY: $11,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetYESH TIKVA INC: $10,500 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA JEWISH ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHULAMITH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $7,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $3,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTORAH ACADEMY OF BERGEN COUNTY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMES NOT NUMBERS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $25 over 1y, 0.0% 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 JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds BEN PORAT YOSEF INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS OF COURAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds CHEVRA HATZOLAH OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
  • Who funds TOMCHEI SHABBOS OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
  • Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM OF RARITAN VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds YESH TIKVA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA JEWISH ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds SHULAMITH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds TORAH ACADEMY OF BERGEN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds NAMES NOT NUMBERS 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 FundFjcThe Ojc FundAbraham and Bessie Ha…The Jonathan & Esther…The Setton FoundationThe Harriet & George …Center for Initiative…Cross River Community…Verizon FoundationNational Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…
Jewish Communal FundNY27.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · The Ojc Fund · Abraham and Bessie Hann Charitable Foundation Inc · The Jonathan & Esther B Rosenberg Foundation · The Setton Foundation · The Harriet & George Blank Bella Foundation Ui Dtd 12232008 · Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education · Cross River Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer 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 Lefkovits Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lefkovits Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Torah Academy of Bergen County: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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 · 0–40%
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.

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 49 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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