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Ma Tov Charitable Foundation Co Sam Vogel
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $78k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASKEY TORAH ACADEMY | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| SHEARIT HAPLATE OF BERGEN COUNTY | $12,000 |
| YESHIVAT NOAM | $10,000 |
| THE FRISCH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ROSENBAUM YESHIVA OF NORTH JERSEY | $10,000 |
| DONATIONS UNDER 1000 | $2,778 |
| CONGREGATION BNAI YESHURIN | $2,395 |
| NCSY | $2,160 |
| TORAH ACADEMY OF BERGEN COUNTY | $2,000 |
| SOUTHEAST HEBREW CONGREGATION | $1,000 |
| HEBRON FUND | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 19% 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.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
- TATORAH ACADEMY OF BERGEN COUNTY5× · 2021–2025 · $71k · revenue +47%
- YNYESHIVAT NOAM4× · 2018–2025 · $48k · revenue +34%
- TFThe Frisch School2× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- SSSINAI SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $16k
- FOFRIENDS OF ADERES HATORAH INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +36%
- COCHABAD OF WEST PALM BEACHone grant, 2018 · $12k
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 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…
Religious Teaching
YBH of Passaic, a K-8 yeshiva in Passaic, New Jersey, emphasizes the primacy of Torah and Yiras Shomayim and offers a serious and comprehensive General Studies curriculum. YBH stresses the importance of middos tovos and acting with…
The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…
The mission of baltimore torah school, inc., a boys school for grades 8- 12, is to produce young men who are motivated to find satisfaction and joy in learning and serving g-d, capable of advancing to excellent advanced jewish study…
A school-section 170(b)(1)(a)(ii), operating from the preschool pre-k level through high school, and chartered ny the new york state education department and board of regents.
To operate a high school offering religious instruction and general studies as well as a post high school program of talmudic studies. the school shall be run under the standards of orthodox jewish law and tradition.
The yeshiva university high schools has as its educational mission to teach and perpetuate the values of torah and secular studies. see schedule o.
Our school is run on a system of mutual respect, for teachers, administration and students. in a warm and caring environment, full of creativity and multi-faceted approaches to education, we ignite a spark in each girl to love hashem and…
Or hachaim academy is a jewish religious school currently serving children from pre-school to 8th grade. in addition to jewish religious training, the school follows the educational curriculum as required by the state of california. the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva of Greater Washington Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hebron Fund 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 42 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 11% 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.
14 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. 14 of the 37 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 MORRIS AND ROSE CASKEY TORAH ACADEMY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds TORAH ACADEMY OF BERGEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT NOAM ↗
- Who funds The Frisch School ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ADERES HATORAH INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA OF NORTH JERSEY ↗
- Who funds SOILLE SAN DIEGO HEBREW DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LAMDEINU INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds TOURO UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Project Ezrah Needs Inc ↗
- Who funds HEBRON FUND INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
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 · Fjc · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · Daniel and Miriam Michael Foundation · M D Katz Foundation Inc · Granit Foundation · The Kahan Family Foundation · The Arthur & Joyce Fein Family Foundation · The Ojc Fund · George and Ellen Friedman Family Foundation · Cross River Community Foundation · The Blumenfeld Family 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 Ma Tov Charitable Foundation Co Sam Vogel 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.
- Yeshiva of Greater Washington Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Frisch School — 0% of income from government
- Torah Academy of Bergen County — 0% 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.
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