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Martin Romerovski Foundation at a glance

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Martin Romerovski Foundation

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.

$59k
Granted FY2023
33
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$233kEducation$71kPhilanthropy$52kHealth$31kArts & Culture$27kCivil Rights$15kInternational$1kSocial Science$1kOther$0
02FY2023 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 33 grants below total $55,448, the rows itemized in this filing. The $58,652 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,204 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k30 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
$250
Median grant
1
States reached
$53k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YRSRH$14,000
YRSRH$12,000
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY$10,000
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA$3,990
UJA FEDERATION OF NY$3,000
FAS$2,350
YRSRH$2,000
SINAI SCHOOLS$1,800
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEN$1,000
American Committee for Shaare Zedek$1,000
BIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN$1,000
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER$500
ONE FAMILY FUND$360
Y.I OF RIVERDALE$300
NJOP$250
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$431k · 34 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2023, 16 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
36

Total granted

$431k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+9%

Still filing today

41%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalHealthArts & CultureReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • YU
    YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2018–2023 · $50k · revenue +62%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +39%
  • AC
    AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $20k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • Y
    YRSRHRJCH
    one grant, 2021 · $36k
  • YR
    YESHIVA RABBI S R HIRSH
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
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.

03Its 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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Sherit Isroel
—
3
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
4
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
5
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
6
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
7
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

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…

Education
9
Yad Laniyim
Philanthropy
10
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
11
University of Judaism Foundation
—
12
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Society for Yad Vashem Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dorot Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 80 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YESHIVA RABBI SAMSON RAPH: $165,270 · OtherYESHIVA RABBI SAMSON RAPHYRSRH: $62,000 · OtherYRSRHYRSRHRJCH: $36,000 · OtherYRSRHRJCHYESHIVA RABBI S R HIRSH: $30,050 · OtherYESHIVA RABBI S R HIRSHYRSRH TORAN FUND: $28,180 · OtherYRSRH TORAN FUNDSINAI SCHOOLS: $14,600 · Other+62 more: $72,824 · Other+62 moreYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationYESHIVA UN…AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $19,900 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $1,050 · International+1 more: $100 · InternationalUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $21,000 · PhilanthropyBIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN INC: $10,100 · HealthUpper East Side Hatzolah Inc: $850 · Health+1 more: $36 · HealthAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $2,200 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN: $1,290 · ReligionArachim America Inc: $200 · Religion
Other$408,924Education$50,000International$21,050Philanthropy$21,000Health$10,986Arts & Culture$8,200Religion$1,490

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 budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $19,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN INC: $10,100 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $2,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN: $1,290 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEER HAGOLAH INSTITUTES INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUpper East Side Hatzolah Inc: $850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHEBRA AGUDAS ACHIM CHESED SHEL EMETH HEBREW FREE BURIAL ASSOCIATIONINC: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHINENI INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $291 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetArachim America Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISASKIM CORP: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $36 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.

  • Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC ↗
  • Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds BEER HAGOLAH INSTITUTES INC ↗
  • Who funds Upper East Side Hatzolah Inc ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundMorris & Anna Propp S…Jewish Community Foun…Terumah Foundation IncThe Ohr Hakotel Found…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY19.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Morris & Anna Propp Sons Fund Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Terumah Foundation Inc · The Ohr Hakotel Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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 80 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $104k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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