· Private foundation
Norman Spero Day School Endowment Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOL | $14,000 |
| HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND | $10,000 |
| GROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT KOL TZOFAYIAH | $3,000 |
| GREEN ROAD SYNAGOGUE | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| CHILDREN'S BRIDGE OF ZICHRON MENACHEM | $250 |
| ZAKA TELAVIV | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against -45% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FMFUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS9× · 2017–2025 · $114k · revenue +59%
- GSGROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +48%
- CBCHILDRENS BRIDGE OF ZICHRON MENACHEM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAHone grant, 2024 · $750
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INCone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue -45%
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.
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.
To further jewish education in israel
To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.
Religious School
Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide educational and social improvement for the children of kiryat arba, israel.
To instill in its students a personal love for and commitment tohashem, the study and practice of torah, halacha, and jewish values asa way of life, and a love for the state of israel and the jewishpeople.
Support of tzohar-a school for special needs children located in israel
To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel
To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds GROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT KOL TZOFAYICH ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS BRIDGE OF ZICHRON MENACHEM INC ↗
- Who funds MENORAH PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Zaka Tel-Aviv Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH 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.
Open a dossier: The Kline Family Foundation · Irving I Stone Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · Sapirstein-Stone-Weiss Foundation · J David & Rebecca Heller Family Foundation · Abr Family Foundation No 1 · The Weiss Family Foundation · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Norman Spero Day School Endowment Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norman Spero Day School Endowment Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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