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Mark & Nina Feldman Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Mark & Nina Feldman Family Foundation Inc

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.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$871kHealth$27kInternational$18kEducation$17kFood & Nutrition$7kPhilanthropy$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PALM BEACH SYNAGOGUE$55,400
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GENESIS JERUSALEM INC$20,000
CHAI CENTER FOR LIVING JUDAISM INC$5,400
THE VALERIE FUND$5,000
NEWARK ACADEMY$5,000
COLEL CHABAD$3,300
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEMAAN ACHAI$2,660
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$2,000
KEREN CHASDEI YISROEL$2,000
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC$2,000
CHABAD AT SHORT HILLS$1,800
JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY$1,500
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS$1,500
CHABAD AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$1,000
CONGREGATION ISRAEL OF SPRINGFIELD$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $1k → 11%OHEL CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$904k · 25 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
27

Total granted

$904k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

56%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationPhilanthropyHealthReligionArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GENESIS JERUSALEM INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +99%
  • TV
    THE VALERIE FUND
    4× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +19%
  • NA
    NEWARK ACADEMY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHAI CENTER JUDAICA
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • CB
    CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • TK
    THE KIDUSH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Sherit Isroel
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2
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
4
University of Judaism Foundation
—
5
Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Ohr Meir Ubracha

The organization provides financial assistance to victims of acts of terrorism in the state of israel.

Philanthropy
7
The Keren Rachaim Fund
—
8
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
9
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
10
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
11
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
12
American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc

To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed Israel Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 59 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/41
Grantees still filing
17/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INC: $483,500 · OtherPALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INCCHAI CENTER FOR LIVING JUDAISM INC: $109,000 · OtherCHAI CENTER FOR LIVING JUDAISM INCKEREN CHASDEI YISROEL: $28,200 · OtherTHE VALERIE FUND: $25,000 · Other+27 more: $97,520 · Other+27 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF GENESIS JERUSALEM INC: $165,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF G…+10 more: $13,860 · International+10 moreNEWARK ACADEMY: $15,000 · EducationTIKVA CORP: $1,040 · Education+2 more: $860 · EducationJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY INC: $6,100 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEMA'AN ACHAI: $2,660 · PhilanthropyZaka Tel-Aviv Inc: $2,160 · PhilanthropyFEED ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyHEBRON FUND INC: $500 · PhilanthropyMILLBURN SHORT HILLS VOLUNTEER FIRST AID SQUAD INC: $1,500 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $1,360 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $500 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC: $500 · HealthCOLUMBIABARNARD HILLEL INC: $1,500 · ReligionAHARON SOFER MEMORIAL FUND: $1,000 · ReligionCAMP HASC INC: $500 · ReligionEFRAT DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION USA INC: $360 · Religion
Other$743,220International$178,860Education$16,900Food & Nutrition$6,100Philanthropy$5,820Health$3,860Religion$3,360

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF GENESIS JERUSALEM INC: $165,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEWARK ACADEMY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY INC: $6,100 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZaka Tel-Aviv Inc: $2,160 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKav LNoar Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILLBURN SHORT HILLS VOLUNTEER FIRST AID SQUAD INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOLUMBIABARNARD HILLEL INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ: $1,360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $1,360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIKVA CORP: $1,040 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION BENJAMIN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMIT CHILDREN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFACTS AND LOGIC ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP HASC INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEBRON FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOhel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Joseph H Feldman Fami…Jewish Communal FundThe Ojc FundMorgan Stanley Global…The J W FoundationJewish Community Foun…Bristol-Myers Squibb …Combined Jewish Phila…The Goldman Sachs Cha…American Express Foun…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…
Joseph H Feldman Family Foundation IncNJ36.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Joseph H Feldman Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The J W Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Express Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mark & Nina Feldman Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mark & Nina Feldman Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj: 1% of income from government
  • Mesorah Heritage Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Mark & Nina Feldman Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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