· 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 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| chabad | $10,000 |
| YESHIVAS LUBAVITCH | $9,700 |
| CONG AGUDUTH ISRAEL OF BORO PARK | $7,500 |
| SHORESH INC | $6,000 |
| AHAVAS YISRAEL CHARITY FUND | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Shaare Zedek Medical Center | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HAKAV HAMEACHED | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RED DOOR IN | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| OHR SOMAYACK INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| NER ISRAEL | $1,000 |
| THE CHESED FUND | $1,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Rabbi Abraham and Shirley Kelman Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +578%
Funded once
- COCHABAD OF GREAT LAKEone grant, 2023 · $20k
- BIBETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +17%
- NYNEW YORK RESCUE RESPONSE TEAMone grant, 2020 · $5k
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 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.
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 87 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 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 ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SAFETY & CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEW YORK CITY 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rabbi Abraham and Shirley Kelman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rabbi Abraham and Shirley Kelman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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