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Manela Brothers Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $262k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $778k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bodenstein Family Foundation | $1,000,000 |
| Congregation Supporters of Torah | $234,000 |
| Kollel International | $205,380 |
| Tzur Foundation | $111,000 |
| JGive - ASOR Fund | $75,000 |
| American Friends of Yad Sarah | $52,866 |
| School for Children with Hidden Int | $50,000 |
| The Donor's Fund | $50,000 |
| Kollel Los Angeles | $40,000 |
| Bais Hava'ad Institute of Talmudic | $36,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $23,800 |
| Various Smaller Organizations | $22,213 |
| Yeshiva Gedolah of Ramapo | $21,000 |
| Torat Haim | $20,000 |
| Yeshiva Gedolah of Los Angeles | $17,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $936k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
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; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- CSCONGREGATION SUPPORTERS OF TORAH INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M
- KAKeren Achiezer Inc3× · 2020–2023 · $792k · revenue -52%
- KIKOLLEL INTERNATIONAL INC3× · 2021–2024 · $492k
Funded once
- CBCongregation Bnai Jacobone grant, 2022 · $50k
- TSTomchei Shabbosone grant, 2019 · $36k
- TOTOUCH OF KINDNESS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $32k · revenue +236%
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.
Religious Teaching
Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.
To provide aid to people who are ill, homebound, isolated or otherwise in distress, including widows, orphans and other indigent individuals. This is be done by providing food, clothing and other necessary items to the needy. In addition,…
1. Religious Services - religiousservices for its congregants by its affiliated Rabbis according to the rituals andcustoms of the Orthodox Jewish tradition.2.Religious Worship - Prayer Services are conducted by affiliated Rabbis…
encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.
Charity
The specific purpose of this corporation is to advance religious purposes by supporting Traditional Orthodox Jewish Schools serving the greater Los Angeles Jewish Community (the Community) in efforts to retain qualified teachers and…
AFOMeomekHalevIncisformedforthereligiouscharitablepurposeofprovidingJewishministrytothespiritualandphysicalneedsofdisadvantagedJewishpersonsfamiliesandchildrenbetheylocatedintheNewYorkaroundtheUSinIsraelorelsewhere
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Touch of Kindness Inc and the most unlike its peers is Areivim Institute. 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 18 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
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 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 50 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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Goldner Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Ek Charitable Foundation Inc · Chavi F Hertz Foundation Inc · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Rohcs Family Foundation Inc · The Siegel Family Charitable Foundation · Jay Morris Foundation Inc · Ryzman Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund
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 Manela Brothers 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.
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