· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Madav IX Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 81%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 26 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Madav IX Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Madav IX Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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