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Paul & Lois Volosov Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Paul & Lois Volosov Family 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.

$131k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Religion$288kEducation$174kPhilanthropy$42kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $115k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KOLLEL M'KADISHEI SH'VEEIE INC$47,500
BINYAN YISROELINC$34,108
CONGREGATION ARUGAS HABOSEM OF BALTIMORE$18,000
CONGREGATION AHAVAS TZOKOKAH VCHESED INC$15,000
BAIS HAMEDRASH & MESIVTA OF BALTIMORE$5,943
CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE JEWISH LEARNING$5,688
TIFERES GOLDA INC$2,528
FIDELITY CHARITABLE - DONOR ADVISED FUND$2,367
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE JEWISH LEARNING: $6k → 19%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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$219k · 3 repeat orgs$316k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
12

Total granted

$219k
$247k

Still filing today

0%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyReligionPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesOther
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

  • BY
    BAIS YAAKOV SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $132k
  • KM
    KOLLEL M KADISHEI SH VEEIE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $58k
  • CA
    CONGREGATION AHAVAS TZDOKAH VCHESED INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k

Funded once

  • TI
    TORAH INSTITUTE OF BALTIMORE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • TA
    THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -6%
  • W
    WOW
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 21 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
1/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAIS YAAKOV SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $131,890 · OtherBAIS YAAKOV SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INCTORAH INSTITUTE OF BALTIMORE INC: $100,000 · OtherTORAH INSTITUTE OF BALTIMORE INCKOLLEL M KADISHEI SH VEEIE INC: $57,500 · OtherKOLLEL M KADISHEI SH VEEIE INCCONGREGATION AHAVAS TZDOKAH VCHESED INC: $30,000 · OtherCONGREGATION AHAVAS TZDOKAH VCHESED INCWOW: $25,000 · OtherWOWBAIS HARKNESS OHR HACHAIM INC: $25,000 · OtherBAIS HARKNESS OHR HACHAIM INCCONGREGATION ARUGAS HABOSEM OF BALTIMORE: $18,000 · Other+8 more: $38,610 · Other+8 moreTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyBinyan Yisroel Inc: $34,108 · EducationTiferes Golda Inc: $2,528 · EducationTORAH LIVE INC: $25,000 · ReligionCenter for Innovative Jewish Learning: $5,688 · Human ServicesALVIN S MINTZES HATZALAH OF BALTIMORE INC: $2,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$426,000Philanthropy$40,000Education$36,636Religion$25,000Human Services$5,688Public Safety & Disaster$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBinyan Yisroel Inc: $34,108 over 1y, 25% of budgetTORAH LIVE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTiferes Golda Inc: $2,528 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALVIN S MINTZES HATZALAH OF BALTIMORE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShoresh Inc: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds Binyan Yisroel Inc ↗
  • Who funds TORAH LIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds Center for Innovative Jewish Learning ↗
  • Who funds Tiferes Golda Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALVIN S MINTZES HATZALAH OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds Shoresh 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.

Associated Jewish Cha…Volosov Family Founda…Gutman Family Foundat…Crane Family Foundati…The Hackerman Foundat…The Dennis Berman Fam…Jewish Communal FundThe Associated Jewish…Foundation for the Pr…Khosh Family Foundati…Center for Jewish Edu…The Adar Foundation
Associated Jewish Charities of BaltimoreMD29.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Volosov Family Foundation Inc · Gutman Family Foundation Inc · Crane Family Foundation Inc · The Hackerman Foundation Inc · The Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc · Foundation for the Preservation & Perpetuation of Torah Laws & Customs · Khosh Family Foundation Inc · Center for Jewish Education Inc · The Adar 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 Paul & Lois Volosov Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul & Lois Volosov Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report 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 Paul & Lois Volosov Family Foundation Inc 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 21 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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