· Private foundation
Rabbi Abraham and Shirley Kelman 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of RABBI ABRAHAM AND SHIRLEY KELMAN FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| chabad | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,700 |
| CONG AGUDUTH ISRAEL OF BORO PARK | $7,500 |
| SHORESH INC | $6,000 |
| AHAVAS YISRAEL CHARITY FUND | $5,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HAKAV HAMEACHED | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Shaare Zedek Medical Center | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RED DOOR IN | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| THE CHESED FUND | $1,000 |
| NER ISRAEL | $1,000 |
| ZAKA Tel-Aviv | $1,000 |
| OHR SOMAYACK INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Rabbi Abraham and Shirley Kelman Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HAKAV HAMEACHED INC8× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +138%
- RCRABBI CHAIM KOWALSKY MEMORIAL AHAVAS YISRAEL FUND INC7× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +92%
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH6× · 2017–2023 · $24k · revenue +384%
Funded once
- COCHABAD OF GREAT LAKEone grant, 2023 · $20k
- NYNEW YORK RESCUE RESPONSE TEAMone grant, 2020 · $5k
- BIBETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +17%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To provide financial aid and assistance to the poor, sick & disabled people, and monetary support to needy families in time of need.
To further jewish education in israel
The organization provides financial assistance to victims of acts of terrorism in the state of israel.
To assist the sick and elderly by providing financial support for medical expenses, hot meals for the invalid home-bound, patient advocacy and support, new mother convalescence, patient family support, overnight accomodations for visiting…
Our mission is to empower older adults to enhance purpose and well-being through a portfolio of innovative health care services.
Aleh Israel Foundation, Inc.(The Foundation)is a Foundation that provides support to rehabilitative centers caring for most severely disabled children in Israel.
To provide medical support to families in need
Providing financial assistance to needy individuals as well as to other charitable, educational, and religious organizations in israel and worldwide
The mission of hebrew health care is to provide highly personalized quality programs and services to the seniors of our community. we assure dignified, informed, quality care to all regardless of source of payment for services. (see…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Israel Fund Ltd and the most unlike its peers is New York City Rescue Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 87 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HAKAV HAMEACHED INC ↗
- Who funds RABBI CHAIM KOWALSKY MEMORIAL AHAVAS YISRAEL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Shoresh Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Auxiliary to Bellevue Hospital Center Inc ↗
- Who funds JASA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE BIKUR CHOLIM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SAFETY & CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW ACADEMY FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ojc Fund · Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Rabbi Abraham and Shirley Kelman Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.