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Northern Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Northern Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$174kArts & Culture$110kInternational$18kEducation$10kReligion$2kPhilanthropy$1kRecreation & Sports$300
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$146
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EZER MIZON$10,000
INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT & DEVELOPMENT INC$5,000
BNOS MALKA ACADEMY$5,000
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 (FY17–23, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF STATEN ISLAND INC: $300 → 11%INDEPENDENT LIVING ASSOCIATION: $10k → 20%KENYA EDUCATION FUND: $1k → 17%INDEPENDENT LIVING ASSOCIATION: $5k → 20%INDEPENDENT LIVING ASSOCIATION: $5k → 20%INDEPENDENT LIVING ASSOCIATION: $3k → 20%INDEPENDENT LIVING ASSOCIATION: $2k → 20%INDEPENDENT LIVING ASSOCIATION: $2k → 20%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$269k · 4 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +174% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$269k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+174%
+35%

Still filing today

100%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureEmploymentOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $108k · revenue +274%
  • IL
    INDEPENDENT LIVING ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2017–2023 · $26k · revenue +68%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $15k · revenue +174%

Funded once

  • AW
    ABILITIES WITHOUT BOUNDARIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +57%
  • IT
    ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +80%
  • WI
    WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -17%
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
Jewish Institute for the Blind (Jerusalem) Inc

To educate, enrich and empower visually impaired people across israel to achieve their full potential and become contributing members of society.

International
2
Darchei Noam Inc

To enhance jewish education for children in israel by developing advanced educational methods, focusing on the building of personal relationships with the students to ensure that the needs of each individual are met. every child can be…

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3
Israel Scholarship Education Foundation

Israel scholarship education foundation's mission is to narrowisrael's socio-economic gap through higher education. its unique methodology combines scholarship support for gifted young people fromdisadvantaged backgrounds with community…

International
4
Sherit Isroel
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5
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
6
Society for the Welfare of Israeli Underprivileged Gifted Children

To provide educational assistance to underprivileged gifted children in israel.

International
7
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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8
Adi Israel Foundation Inc

Aleh Israel Foundation, Inc.(The Foundation)is a Foundation that provides support to rehabilitative centers caring for most severely disabled children in Israel.

International
9
Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc

To support cancer research in israel, for the benefit of israel and all mankind.

—
10
Israel Venture Network

The Organization is at the forefront of the social business arena for fourth sector in Israel, nurturing and growing this emerging sector and generating sustainable social impact by providing Israel's social businesses with knowledge,…

Education
11
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
12
Israel Education Resource Center Inc

To catalyze excellence in the professional field of israel education by supporting the development of educators, pioneering new educational approaches, and relentlessly promoting a relational and learner-centered philosophy.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Israel Tennis Centers Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bnos Malka Academy. 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

14 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. 14 of the 18 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)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EZER MIZION: $120,000 · InternationalEZER MIZIONAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $15,250 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INCISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · InternationalISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC+2 more: $7,100 · InternationalFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $107,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INCINDEPENDENT LIVING ASSOCIATION: $26,000 · Human ServicesINDEPENDE…KENYA EDUCATION FUND: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $300 · Human ServicesABILITIES WITHOUT BOUNDARIES INC: $10,000 · EmploymentBNOS MALKA ACADEMY: $5,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP EDUCATION ADVA: $5,000 · EducationAIRBORNE AND SPECIAL OPERATIONS MUSEUM: $2,500 · OtherPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $1,800 · OtherALS FOUNDATIONS: $1,000 · OtherNYFAC FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherPOOR CLARES OF THE FRANCISCAN MONASTERY: $250 · OtherMaster's Manna Inc: $1,500 · Food & Nutrition
International$152,350Arts & Culture$107,500Human Services$27,300Employment$10,000Education$10,000Other$6,550Food & Nutrition$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEZER MIZION: $120,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $107,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetINDEPENDENT LIVING ASSOCIATION: $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $15,250 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetABILITIES WITHOUT BOUNDARIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBNOS MALKA ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP EDUCATION ADVA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaster's Manna Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKENYA EDUCATION FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SI INC: $300 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Northern Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northern Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report 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.

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 18 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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