· Private foundation
Lichtenstein Marcus Family Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k25 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEICHAL HATORAH | $12,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| American Friends of Maagalim | $10,000 |
| MANHATTAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,400 |
| Moises Safra Center | $5,870 |
| WESTCHESTER HEBREW HIGH SCHOOL | $5,250 |
| Imagination Productions Inc | $5,000 |
| THE JEWISH CENTER | $4,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,600 |
| MANHATTAN DAY SCHOOL | $2,180 |
| Chabad Center of Northwest NJ | $2,160 |
| American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel | $1,800 |
| OU-JLIC | $1,360 |
| University of Chicago | $1,360 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $136) 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. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +58% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- WHWESTCHESTER HEBREW HIGH SCHOOL4× · 2017–2020 · $24k · revenue +18%
- HHHEICHAL HATORAH4× · 2017–2020 · $22k · revenue +248%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAAGALIM INC2× · 2017–2020 · $13k · revenue +406%
Funded once
- NJNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM INone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -40%
- COCHABAD OF HYDE PARKone grant, 2018 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
To further jewish education in israel
Support of religious schools in Israel
Religious School
Providing financial assistance to needy individuals as well as to other charitable, educational, and religious organizations in israel and worldwide
Furtherance of jewish education
To educate, enrich and empower visually impaired people across israel to achieve their full potential and become contributing members of society.
publish religious books
To enhance jewish education for children in israel by developing advanced educational methods, focusing on the building of personal relationships with the students to ensure that the needs of each individual are met. every child can be…
The furthurance of jewish concepts and religious beliefs.
To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opendor Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bear Givers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
17 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. 17 of the 60 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 WESTCHESTER HEBREW HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HEICHAL HATORAH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAAGALIM INC ↗
- Who funds OPENDOR MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT HAKOTEL INC ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds JEWISH INTERNATIONAL CONNECTION NY INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Lichtenstein Marcus Foundation Inc · Jeannette and H Peter Kriendler Char Trust · The Sheila & Henry Marcus Foundation Inc · House of Gross Foundation Inc · Terumah Foundation Inc · The Ojc Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Lichtenstein Marcus Family 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.
- Heichal Hatorah — 1% 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.