· Public charity
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger
Inspired by Jewish values and ideals, MAZON is a national advocacy organization working to end hunger among people of all faiths and backgrounds in the United States and Israel.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 51 grants below total $3,889,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,261,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $372,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k44 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEF Israel Endowment Funds | $160,000 |
| Center for a New Economy Inc | $150,000 |
| Instituto del Desarrollo | $140,000 |
| Hawaii Appleseed Ctr for Law | $105,000 |
| Hawaii Public Health Institu | $95,000 |
| Kentucky Center for Economic | $95,000 |
| Feeding Alabama | $95,000 |
| Alaska Food Policy Council | $95,000 |
| Florida Impact Inc | $90,000 |
| AR Advocates Children & Famil | $90,000 |
| Hawaii Childrens Action Netw | $90,000 |
| Hawaii Foodbank Inc | $90,000 |
| Hunger Free Oklahoma | $90,000 |
| Mississippi Cntr for Justice | $90,000 |
| William E Morris Institute | $90,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
85 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k 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
- WEWILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE7× · 2019–2025 · $555k · revenue +27%
- TJTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $500k · revenue +178%
- AAARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES7× · 2019–2025 · $490k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- CFCenter for Pan Asian Community Servicesone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -64%
- ASAmerican Supporters of Yedid Incone grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue -62%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TNgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +70%
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.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.
Our mission: to end hunger in montana through food acquisition and distribution, education, and advocacy. we are the only statewide hunger organization, providing emergency food and increasing food access among needy children, seniors and…
The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.
We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.
Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.
The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…
Hunger action los angeles ends hunger and promotes healthy eating through advocacy, education, and appropriate direct service. the chief program area currently is the market match prgram operated by hala at 22 farmers markets in la county…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc and the most unlike its peers is Acomerpr Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
178 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 178 of the 186 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.
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA ARISE ↗
- Who funds OPENSKY POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS HUNGER RELIEF ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds INDY HUNGER NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds OFFICE OF KENTUCKY LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds KANSAS ACTION FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Alaska Food Policy Council ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMY INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FEEDING KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds THE AFN EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds ALASKA NATIVE TRIBAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds POVERTY SOLUTIONS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ESPACIOS ABIERTOS PUERTO RICO INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH ↗
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: Food Research & Action Center · Center on Budget and Policy Priorities · Share Our Strength · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · American Heart Association Inc · Economic Policy Institute · New Venture Fund · Center for Law and Social Policy · Community Catalyst Inc · Feeding America · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · WK Kellogg 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 MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger 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.
- Hunger Free Oklahoma Inc — 100% of income from government
- Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon — 31% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Hunger Free Vermont Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Center for Food Action in New Jersey — 0% of income from government
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.