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Meyer Milton Char Tuw-Main

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.

$169k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Religion$334kHuman Services$282kPhilanthropy$121kEducation$108kPublic Benefit$60kCivil Rights$50kArts & Culture$33kEmployment$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $130k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE$10,000
CHEVRA KADISHA-SINAI MEMORIAL CHAPEL$10,000
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH$10,000
BERKELEY HILLEL$10,000
THE BRANDEIS SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO$10,000
TIDES CENTER$10,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL$10,000
NEW LEHRHAUS THE BAY AREA HUB FOR ADULT$10,000
OAKLAND HEBREW DAY SCHOOL$10,000
REPAIR THE WORLD$10,000
TAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION$10,000
SAN FRANCISCO JEWISH COMM PUBLICATIONS$10,000
CONTRA COSTA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL$10,000
ADATH ISRAEL$8,000
MOISHE HOUSE$8,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $164k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $10k → 8%BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $10k → 8%BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $10k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $9k → 10%BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $10k → 8%BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $10k → 8%BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $10k → 8%BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $5k → 8%JEWISH HOME: $5k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $10k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $5k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $18k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $15k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $10k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $8k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $8k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $8k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$882k · 22 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
13

Total granted

$882k
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
-1%

Still filing today

68%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionHuman ServicesPublic BenefitArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

  • TJ
    TAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $90k · revenue +59%
  • BA
    BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE
    7× · 2018–2024 · $65k · revenue +33%
  • CK
    Chevra Kadisha - Sinai Memorial Chapel
    5× · 2019–2024 · $65k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • BT
    BEND THE ARC JEWISH ACTION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -65%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • BA
    Bay Area Jewish Healing Center
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -100%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
2
Jewish Commmunity High School of the Bay

JCHS is a college preparatory high school committed to integrating deep learning, wisdom, and Jewish values. We empower students to embrace their Jewish identity, generate empathy and compassion, delight in lifelong education, and improve…

Education
3
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
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4
Jewish Federation of the Sacra

To serve and enrich the Jewish community and those who support and identify with it, in the greater Sacramento area, Israel, and the world.

Philanthropy
5
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Youth Towns of Israel (California)
International
7
Jewish Learningworks

Our mission is to improve and extend Jewish learning because learning is fundamental to Jewish life, identity, community and continuity.

Religion
8
Hillel of Silicon Valley Inc

Hillel of silicon valley provides a welcoming, supportive environmentto enrich students' college experience and enable them to connect with the jewish community and israel.

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9
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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10
Hillel of San Luis Obispo

Enriching the lives of Jewish students so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world.

Religion
11
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

—
12
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Center of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is New Lehrhaus the Bay Area Hub for Adult Jewish Learning. 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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%3%<5yr14%10%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr19%38%20–35yr14%7%35–55yr11%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%3%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr19%40%20–35yr14%3%35–55yr11%30%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
11%
5,291/47,311

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.

04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 43 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
15/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF — $95,500 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OFBERKELEY HILLEL — $65,000 · OtherBERKELEY HILLELHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR — $45,000 · OtherHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FORUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM — $40,000 · OtherUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISMJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL — $40,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCILJEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAS — $35,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EASIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherJEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING — $20,000 · OtherCAMP RAMAH IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $20,000 · Other+15 more — $112,500 · Other+15 moreTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $90,000 · ReligionTAWONGA JEWISH COM…Chevra Kadisha - Sinai Memorial Chapel — $65,000 · ReligionChevra Kadisha - S…MOISHE HOUSE — $24,000 · ReligionMOISHE HOUSEBAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE — $65,000 · Human ServicesBAY AREA FRIENDS…JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $60,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AN…TIDES CENTER — $25,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO — $9,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY…+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesSan Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc — $42,500 · EducationSan Francis…New Lehrhaus The Bay Area Hub for Adult Jewish Learning — $20,000 · EducationNew Lehrhau…Oakland Hebrew Day School — $15,000 · EducationOakland Heb…BRANDEIS SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO — $15,000 · EducationBRANDEIS SC…CONTRA COSTA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationCONTRA COST…South Peninsula Hebrew Day School — $5,000 · EducationHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $60,000 · Public BenefitBEND THE ARC JEWISH ACTION INC — $10,000 · Public BenefitWilderness Torah — $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM — $30,000 · Arts & CultureSILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL — $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$498,000Religion$179,000Human Services$164,000Education$107,500Public Benefit$70,000Environment$50,000Arts & Culture$32,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $90,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE — $65,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetBERKELEY HILLEL — $65,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetChevra Kadisha - Sinai Memorial Chapel — $65,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $60,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWilderness Torah — $50,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetSan Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc — $42,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL — $40,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE — $24,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNew Lehrhaus The Bay Area Hub for Adult Jewish Learning — $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetOakland Hebrew Day School — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRANDEIS SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHasidah — $12,500 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetREPAIR THE WORLD — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEND THE ARC JEWISH ACTION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEMPLE HILLEL — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCONTRA COSTA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBay Area Jewish Healing Center — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJ LEADERS — $7,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetHEBREW HOME FOR AGED DISABLED — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Peninsula Hebrew Day School — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

Jewish Community Fede…Jewish Community Fede…The Jewish Community …Koret FoundationLisa & Douglas Goldma…Taube Foundation for …The Shimon Ben Joseph…Dare FoundationLeslie Family Foundat…Rmlow FoundationRalph & Marsha Guggen…Jewish Community Foun…
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA39.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay · The Jewish Community Foundation · Koret Foundation · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Dare Foundation · Leslie Family Foundation · Rmlow Foundation · Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

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 Meyer Milton Char Tuw-Main 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Meyer Milton Char Tuw-Main?

    Find your warmest path to Meyer Milton Char Tuw-Main 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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