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Plaut Family Foundation

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.

$186k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$39k
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.

Religion$350kPublic Benefit$133kEducation$15kPhilanthropy$8k
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $153k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$54k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION TIFERES YAKOV$39,000
KOLLEL KINYAN TORAH$28,000
LAWRENCE FAR ROCKAWAY COMMUNITY KOLLEL$27,500
BETH ABBA TRUST$25,000
Individual grant recipient$18,000
YESHIVA DARCHEI TORAH$15,000
Individual grant recipient$6,800
LAPID YESHIVA INC$5,000
BAIS MEDRASH OF FLATBUSH$4,500
YESHIVA GEDOLAH YAGDIL TORAH$2,500
MESIVTA TORAS MOSHE$2,500
TALMUDICAL YESHIVA OF PHILADELPHIA$1,800
YESHIVA DVAR TORAH INC$1,800
TELSHE YESHIVA$1,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RBS$1,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YESHIVA KETANA OF LONG ISLAND: $5k → 6%AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $5k → 17%BETH ABBA TRUST: $25k → 20%KOL ARYEH: $2k → 7%CONGREGATION TIFERES YAKOV: $39k → 11%LAWRENCE FAR ROCKAWAY COMMUNITY KOLLEL: $50k → 13%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHER: $5k → 20%YESHIVA GEDOLAH SHAAREI SHMUEL: $13k → 11%CONGREGATION SHAARAY TEFILAH: $3k → 6%LAWRENCE FAR ROCKAWAY COMMUNITY KOLLEL: $50k → 13%BETH ABA TRUST: $3k → 20%YESHIVA GEDOLAH SHAAREI SHMUEL: $7k → 11%LAWRENCE FAR ROCKAWAY COMMUNITY KOLLEL: $28k → 13%YESHIVA TIFERES YERACHMIEL: $7k → 11%LAWERENCE FAR ROCKAWAY KOLLEL: $25k → 13%YESHIVA TIFERES YERACHMIEL: $6k → 11%YESHIVA SHAARAY CHAIM: $18k → 13%EZER LINITZRACH: $8k → 20%BETH MEDRASH GEVOHA: $5k → 11%LAWERENCE FAR ROCKAWAY KOLLEL: $15k → 13%EZER LINITZRACH: $7k → 20%YESHIVA TIFERES YERACHMIEL: $5k → 11%YESHIVA DARCHEI TORAH: $15k → 13%CONGREATION SHOMREI SHABBOS ANSHEI SFARD: $4k → 20%YESHIVA GEDOLAH YAGDIL TORAH: $5k → 11%LAWERENCE FAR ROCKAWAY KOLLEL: $12k → 13%YESHIVA OHR MOSHE: $4k → 11%LAPID YESHIVA INC: $10k → 13%YESHIVA GEDOLAH YAGDIL TORAH: $4k → 11%YESHIVA DARCHEI TORAH: $6k → 13%YESHIVA GEDOLAH YAGDIL TORAH: $4k → 11%YESHIVA SHAAREI CHAIM: $6k → 13%YESHIVA TIFERES YERACHMIEL: $3k → 11%YESHIVA DARCHEI TORAH: $6k → 13%YESHIVA GEDOLAH YAGDIL TORAH: $3k → 11%LAWERENCE FAR ROCKAWAY KOLLEL: $5k → 13%YESHIVA DVAR TORAH INC: $3k → 11%LAPID YESHIVA INC: $5k → 13%YESHIVA GEDOLAH SHAAREI SHMUEL: $3k → 11%YESHIVA DARCHEI TORAH: $5k → 13%YESHIVA OHR MOSHE: $2k → 11%YESHIVA SHAAREI CHAIM: $5k → 13%BAIS MEDRASH OF FLATBUSH: $5k → 20%YESHIVA TIFERES YERACHMIEL: $2k → 11%YESHIVA DARCHEI TORAH: $5k → 13%MESIVTA TORAS MOSHE: $3k → 13%YESHIVA OHR YITZCHAK: $3k → 20%KOLLEL KINYAN TORAH: $28k → 11%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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$365k · 15 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
15

Total granted

$365k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
-9%

Still filing today

27%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k 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
ReligionPhilanthropyInternationalEducationOther
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

  • BA
    BETH ABA TRUST
    2× · 2018–2024 · $28k · revenue +2%
  • YD
    YESHIVAS D'VAR TORAH INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +10%
  • PL
    PEYLIM LEV LACHIM
    3× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • YK
    YESHIVA KETANA OF LONG ISLAND
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHER INC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -60%
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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc

Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students

Education
3
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
4
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
5
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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6
Yeshiva Beit Rafael

Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.

Philanthropy
7
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

—
8
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.

Education
9
Yeshiva Kol Torah Inc

Education

Education
10
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
11
American Friends of Yeshiva Tiferet

To solicit, collect and otherwise raise money to support and further the educational work of yeshiva tiferet, a school located in jerusalem, israel, and to generally support, further and advance yeshiva tiferet by all available means and…

Education
12
Friends of Yeshiva Tehilas Shlomo Inc

Provide support to further jewish education

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshivas Nachlas Sofrim Inc; the most unlike its peers is Meorot Hatorah Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAWRENCE FAR ROCKAWAY COMMUNITY KOLLEL: $127,500 · OtherLAWRENCE FAR ROCKAWAY COMMUNITY KOLLELLAWERENCE FAR ROCKAWAY KOLLEL: $57,000 · OtherLAWERENCE FAR ROCKAWAY KOLLELCONGREGATION TIFERES YAAKOV: $39,000 · OtherCONGREGATION TIFERES YAAKOVYESHIVA DARCHEI TORAH: $36,900 · OtherYESHIVA DARCHEI TORAHKOLLEL KINYAN TORAH INC: $28,000 · OtherKOLLEL KINYAN TORAH INCYESHIVA GEDOLAH SHAAREI SHMUEL: $22,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $18,000 · OtherYESHIVA GEDOLAH YAGDIL TORAH: $16,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,100 · Other+30 more: $64,895 · Other+30 moreBETH ABA TRUST: $27,500 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHER INC: $4,500 · PhilanthropyYESHIVAS D'VAR TORAH INC: $4,300 · PhilanthropyLAPID YESHIVA INC: $15,000 · EducationYESHIVA OHR YITZCHOK: $2,500 · ReligionYESHIVAS NACHLAS SOFRIM INC: $1,750 · ReligionMEOROT HATORAH INC: $500 · ReligionKOLLEL YERUSHALAYIM: $500 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAH BTZFAT INC: $600 · International
Other$448,095Philanthropy$36,300Education$15,000Religion$5,250International$600

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 budgetBETH ABA TRUST: $27,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetLAPID YESHIVA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHER INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYESHIVAS D'VAR TORAH INC: $4,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA OHR YITZCHOK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEYLIM LEV LACHIM: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVAS NACHLAS SOFRIM INC: $1,750 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAH BTZFAT INC: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEOROT HATORAH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 BETH ABA TRUST ↗
  • Who funds LAPID YESHIVA INC ↗
  • Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHER INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVAS D'VAR TORAH INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA OHR YITZCHOK ↗
  • Who funds PEYLIM LEV LACHIM ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVAS NACHLAS SOFRIM INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAH BTZFAT 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.

The Ojc FundJewish Communal FundThe Ganger Foundation…Alyad Foundation IncZichron Chaim Charity…Jack Adjmi Family Fou…Jewish Community Foun…The Levitin Family Ch…Donors Fund IncFjcThe Zichron Chaya Roc…Deutsch Family Founda…
The Ojc FundNY29.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ganger Foundation Inc · Alyad Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Levitin Family Charitable Trust · Donors Fund Inc · Fjc · The Zichron Chaya Rochel Foundation · Deutsch Family 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 Plaut Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Plaut Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%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
    3get 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.

    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 49 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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