· Private foundation
Rabbi Joshua Heschel 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $161k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MESIVTA KEREN ORAH | $37,270 |
| VARIOUS | $30,635 |
| Beis Hachinuch | $19,000 |
| Avihem | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,750 |
| CONGREGATION SHEMEN LMINCHA | $11,800 |
| TZUR FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OHEV YISROEL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| YAD LACHIM | $8,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,100 |
| Freehold Kollel | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,600 |
| TORAH MEMORY PALACE | $3,600 |
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 (FY21–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 20 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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
- MKMESIVTA KEREN ORAH3× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +24%
- BTBAIS TOVA INC3× · 2019–2021 · $26k · revenue +48%
- AIAVIHEM INC2× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- YKYESHIVA KEREN ORAHone grant, 2023 · $43k
- CMCONGREGATION MIKVAH TAHARA OF YETEV LEV INCone grant, 2021 · $24k
- CKCONGREGATION KHAL TORAS CHAIM INCone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
Providing religious and secular education for elementary school aged children.
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Providing jewish education to high school age students.
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
Operation of an educational institution for preschool and elementary school-aged children, providing both religous and secular education.
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
The purpose of this organization is to support indigent torah scholars and their families by providing stipends and additional funds at jewish holiday times.
Providing jewish and secular education for high school aged girls.
Religious School
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva Nesivos Hatorah Inc and the most unlike its peers is Avihem Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 11 years old; the field is 12. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 20% of your grantees by number, and just 30% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 75 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 MESIVTA KEREN ORAH ↗
- Who funds BAIS TOVA INC ↗
- Who funds AVIHEM INC ↗
- Who funds BEIS HACHINUCH INC ↗
- Who funds TZUR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OHEV YISRAEL ↗
- Who funds DONORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds REFUAH V SIMCHA INC ↗
- Who funds LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA NESIVOS HATORAH INC ↗
- Who funds NACHLAS BAIS YAAKOV ↗
- Who funds ORAYSA 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: The Ojc Fund · Donors Fund Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Sorala Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Communal Fund · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · Senior Community Services Inc · Toras Chesed Inc · Aj & Sl Stern Family Foundation
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 Joshua Heschel 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.
- Mesivta Keren Orah — 10% of income from government
- Bais Tova Inc — 7% of income from government
- Yeshiva Nesivos Hatorah Inc — 3% of income from government
- Yeshiva Kol Torah Inc — 3% of income from government
- Nachlas Bais Yaakov — 2% of income from government
- Beis Hachinuch Inc — 1% 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.