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Meyer Milton Char Tuw-Main at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH$10,000
THE BRANDEIS SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO$10,000
REPAIR THE WORLD$10,000
TAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION$10,000
BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE$10,000
CHEVRA KADISHA-SINAI MEMORIAL CHAPEL$10,000
SAN FRANCISCO JEWISH COMM PUBLICATIONS$10,000
TIDES CENTER$10,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL$10,000
NEW LEHRHAUS THE BAY AREA HUB FOR ADULT$10,000
CONTRA COSTA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL$10,000
OAKLAND HEBREW DAY SCHOOL$10,000
BERKELEY HILLEL$10,000
MOISHE HOUSE$8,000
ADATH ISRAEL$8,000
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.

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Its 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 its 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
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.
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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
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

  • 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

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

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Center of San Francisco; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 43 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $60,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% 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 budgetNew Lehrhaus The Bay Area Hub for Adult Jewish Learning: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% 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 budgetCONTRA COSTA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBay Area Jewish Healing Center: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBEND THE ARC JEWISH ACTION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEMPLE HILLEL: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetREPAIR THE WORLD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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.

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

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 Meyer Milton Char Tuw-Main funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meyer Milton Char Tuw-Main. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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