· Private foundation
Mahshala Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $189k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
- $250k+1 grant · $410k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAGEN DAVID YESHIVA FED ID#11-1666839 | $410,000 |
| MISCELLANEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER 2500 | $61,337 |
| SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM INC FED ID# 47-1484178 | $34,200 |
| CONGREGATION SHAARE ZION | $32,550 |
| SEPHARDIC FOOD FUND INC FED ID# 56-2307777 | $26,000 |
| SEPHARDIC INSTITUTE FED ID# 11-27170961 | $18,004 |
| CONGREGATION RODFEK ZEDEK INC FED ID#11-6037242 | $18,000 |
| YESHIVA SHAARE TORAH FED ID#11-2613334 | $18,000 |
| COLEL CHABAD FED ID#11-3254483 | $16,600 |
| EDMUND J SAFRA SYNAGOGUE | $15,680 |
| UJA FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NY INC FED ID# 51-0172429 | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION KEREN L'TORAH FEDID#51-0188856 | $9,000 |
| SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER FED ID#22-3800123 | $7,200 |
| SAFE FOUNDATION | $7,200 |
| KEREN YOM-TOV FED ID#11-3501981 | $7,200 |
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $528k 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
- SFSAFE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $39k · revenue +43%
- PYPorat Yoseph Foundation5× · 2019–2024 · $35k · revenue +163%
- RFREACH FOR THE STARS LEARNING CENTER3× · 2019–2021 · $11k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- MCMISCELLANEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER 3000one grant, 2019 · $42k
- SBSEPHARDIC BIKUR FED ID# 47-1484178one grant, 2020 · $26k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
Educational - operation of a parochial elementary school
Yeshiva chayei olam inc., was established for the purpose of having an orthodox jewish high school. the school teaches talumdic studies, talmudic jurasprudence, orthodox jewish ethics and the old testament. in addition, the school provides…
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.
Providing a religious and secular education to students
Jewish religious services and education
Support of religious schools in Israel
A jewish orthodox high school
A jewish secondary school which seeks to inculcate its students with high character and religious values to produce future religious leaders
Rinas bais yaakov, inc was established for the charitable purpose of promoting jewish education and jewish identity.
Synogogue and school
To establish and maintain a place for religious studies and prayer in accordance with principals and customs of the Jewish orthodox religion
Operation of an orthodox jewish educational institution, providing high school level religious education to approximately 40 students
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Kesher Organization Inc and the most unlike its peers is Magen Abraham Yeshiva Inc Congregation Bnei Ovadia. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 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.
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: Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ralph S Gindi Family Foundation · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · The Setton Foundation · Abraham D & Annette Cohen Foundation · N'Ve Shalom Foundation Inc · The Mamiye Foundation Inc · Jack D Cohen Foundation Inc · I Chera & Sons Foundation Inc · E R G Foundation · Cabasso 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 Mahshala Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — 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.