· Public charity
Madav IX Foundation
Further the charitable, educational and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland (federation).
Read this first · the figures below need context
79% of Madav IX Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Cleveland, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Madav IX Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 16 organizations, $651k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $650,900 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $806,900 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $156,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k5 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $216k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $401k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND | $135,000 |
| GROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL | $108,000 |
| AISH HATORAH OF CLEVELAND | $102,000 |
| CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF SOLON | $56,000 |
| HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND | $48,200 |
| SEMACH SEDEK RIAS | $28,000 |
| JEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF CLEVELAND | $25,000 |
| CLEVELAND CHABAD CHAI CENTER INC | $23,500 |
| TORAH HIGH OF CLEVELAND | $20,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND | $18,700 |
| WAXMAN CHABAD CENTER | $16,000 |
| GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC | $13,600 |
| CHABAD OF DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND | $12,000 |
| CHABAD OF UNIVERSITY CIRCLE | $11,000 |
| KEHILLAS HAGRA | $7,500 |
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Madav IX Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 81% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, 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
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- GSGROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL5× · 2018–2024 · $243k · revenue +37%
- JEJEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF CLEVELAND6× · 2018–2025 · $139k · revenue +79%
THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC3× · 2018–2020 · $45k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- WRWESTERN RESERVE SYNAGOGUE BETH SHALOMone grant, 2019 · $7k
- TETEMPLE EMANU ELone grant, 2018 · $6k
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.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Chabad Bahia Blanca. 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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
11 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. 11 of the 26 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds GROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds COOLANU INC MELNICK ↗
- Who funds TRUE FAST OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHABAD BAHIA BLANCA ↗
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 Federation of Cleveland · Jewish Education Center of Cleveland · The Joseph and Florence Mandel Family- Penni M and Stephen J Weinberg Family Fund · J David & Rebecca Heller Family Foundation · Irving I Stone Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Madav IX 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.
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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