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Liebhaber Family Foundation at a glance

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Liebhaber 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.

$365k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.9MReligion$540kEducation$255kInternational$240k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC$120,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTH$100,000
HAROLD AND MICKEY SMITH JEWISH ACAD EMY$85,000
AMERICA GIVES INC$60,000
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEILICHER MPLS JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $120k → 11%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK INC: $200k → 17%AMERICA GIVES INC: $35k → 14%MOISHE HOUSE: $10k → 10%BNOS YISRAEL OF BALTIMORE: $36k → 19%HEILICHER MPLS JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $85k → 11%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK INC: $100k → 17%AMERICA GIVES: $30k → 14%BNOS YISRAEL OF BALTIMORE: $27k → 19%HEILICHER MPLS JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $85k → 11%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK INC: $100k → 17%AMERICA GIVES: $30k → 14%BNOS YISRAEL OF BALTIMORE: $10k → 19%AMOS AND CELIA HEILICHER MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH DAY SC: $85k → 11%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $100k → 17%AMERICA GIVES: $30k → 14%BNOS YISRAEL OF BALTIMORE: $5k → 19%HEILICHER MPLS JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $85k → 11%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK INC: $100k → 17%KEHILAS SHAAREI AVODAH: $2k → 19%HAROLD AND MICKEY SMITH JEWISH ACAD EMY: $85k → 11%AMERICA GIVES INC: $60k → 17%HEILICHER MPLS JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $80k → 11%UNITED SYNAGOGUE OF CONSERV JUDAISM: $20k → 17%HEILICHER MPLS JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $35k → 11%SKILLED VOLUNTEERS FOR ISRAEL: $5k → 17%HEILICHER MPLS JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $25k → 11%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND: $40k → 17%P E F ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $35k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND: $35k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND: $25k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND: $25k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND: $25k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND: $25k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND: $25k → 17%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Liebhaber Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 30% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 26%.

Liebhaber Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 6 repeat orgs$207k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$2.5M
$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+27%

Still filing today

50%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $800k · revenue +39%
  • TS
    THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $635k · revenue +42%
  • AG
    AMERICA GIVES INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $185k · revenue +230%

Funded once

  • AA
    AMOS AND CELIA HEILICHER MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH DAY SC
    one grant, 2024 · $85k
  • US
    UNITED SYNAGOGUE OF CONSERV JUDAISM
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • MH
    MOISHE HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +26%
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
05the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 13 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $800,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCTHE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC: $635,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INCPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $235,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INCAMERICA GIVES INC: $185,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICA GIVES INC+1 more: $5,200 · PhilanthropyHEILICHER MPLS JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $515,000 · OtherHEILICHER MPLS JEWISH DAY SCHOOLTHE SCHECHTER INSTITUES INC: $240,000 · OtherTHE SCHECHTER INSTITUES INCAMOS AND CELIA HEILICHER MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH DAY SC: $85,000 · OtherAMOS AND CELIA HEILICHER MINNEAPOLIS JEW…HAROLD AND MICKEY SMITH JEWISH ACADEMY: $85,000 · OtherHAROLD AND MICKEY SMITH JEWISH ACADEMYBNOS YISROEL OF BALTIMORE INC: $78,200 · OtherBNOS YISROEL OF BALTIMORE INC+2 more: $22,000 · OtherMOISHE HOUSE: $10,000 · Religion
Philanthropy$1,860,200Other$1,025,200Religion$10,000

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 budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $800,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC: $635,000 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $235,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $185,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHAROLD AND MICKEY SMITH JEWISH ACADEMY: $85,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSKILLED VOLUNTEERS FOR ISRAEL: $5,200 over 1y, 7.8% 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 UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds HAROLD AND MICKEY SMITH JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds SKILLED VOLUNTEERS FOR ISRAEL ↗

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 FundFidelity Investments …
Jewish Communal FundNY12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Liebhaber Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Liebhaber Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    0get no government money at all
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Liebhaber Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Liebhaber 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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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