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Richard Mazer Fund Inc Co Kenneth Mazer

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.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$24kPhilanthropy$14kReligion$13kArts & Culture$2kInternational$1kHuman Services$711Health$540Public Benefit$200Other$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$197k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,067
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT$2,500
UJA FEDERATION$1,800
RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$500
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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TEMPLE ISRAEL: $6k → 9%UJA FEDERATION: $3k → 17%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $125 → 7%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $3k → 10%GIRL SCOUT TROOP: $100 → 6%RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $500 → 5%RANDOM FARMS KIDS THEATRE: $1k → 9%UJA FEDERATION: $2k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $3k → 10%RANDOM FARMS KIDS THEATRE: $675 → 9%UJA FEDERATION: $2k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $3k → 10%MGA FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%UJA FEDERATION: $2k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $3k → 10%WESTCHESTER JEWISH COUNCIL: $500 → 9%UJA FEDERATION: $2k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $3k → 10%RANDOM FARMS KIDS THEATRE: $180 → 9%UJA FEDERATION: $1k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $3k → 10%SHAAREI TIKVAH: $7k → 9%UJA FEDERATION: $1k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $3k → 10%SHAAREI TIKVAH: $6k → 9%UJA FEDERATION: $1k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF VT: $2k → 10%SHAAREI TIKVAH: $5k → 9%CHIA LIFELINE: $180 → 17%SHAAREI TIKVAH: $4k → 9%SHAAREI TIKVAH: $4k → 9%SCARSDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $450 → 9%SCARSDALE FORUM: $200 → 9%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WESTCHES: $111 → 9%WESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVIC: $600 → 9%TEMPLE ISRAEL CENTER: $3k → 9%TEMPLE ISRAEL CENTER: $3k → 9%TEMPLE ISRAEL CENTER: $385 → 9%SEVIAH LIFE BEYOND MEMORY: $360 → 9%RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $500 → 9%RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $500 → 9%RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $500 → 9%RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $500 → 9%RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $500 → 9%RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $500 → 9%RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $500 → 9%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$68k · 6 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
15

Total granted

$68k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+44%

Still filing today

50%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthInternationalPhilanthropyReligionEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +39%
  • RC
    RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    7× · 2018–2024 · $4k · revenue +32%
  • RF
    RANDOM FARMS KIDS THEATER INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $2k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • TI
    TEMPLE ISRAEL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VT
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +211%
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
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
2
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services
3
Mid-Island Y Jewish Community Center in

Provide vital services & foster jewish identity, personal growth, family strength and community. the mid-island y jcc is open to everyone in the community serving individuals of all ages, abilities, and challenges.

Human Services
4
Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester Inc

The louis s. wolk jcc of greater rochester is deeply rooted in and committed to celebrating jewish traditions and values. we welcome the community at large to join together for exceptional events and activities that establish lifelong…

Human Services
5
Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy
6
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
7
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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8
Jewish Community Center of Schenectady Inc

Our mission is to build a vibrant, welcoming, and inclusive community that embraces our jewish values, culture, identity and connections to israel, engages the local community, and enhances the body, mind and spirit of our members.

Religion
9
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
10
Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston

To advance the aspirations of families and individuals to enrich their lives, bodies and spirits, by providing the best in contemporary programs and experiences, informed by jewish values for today's jews and the people in their lives.

Human Services
11
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
12
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Westchester Jewish Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $25,267 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $17,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONTTEMPLE ISRAEL CENTER: $6,517 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL CENTERTEMPLE ISRAEL INC: $5,860 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL INCUNIVERSITY OF VT: $2,000 · Other+8 more: $2,506 · OtherUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $13,171 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPE…RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $3,500 · EducationRANDOM FARMS KIDS THEATER INC: $1,855 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,000 · InternationalWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $600 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $180 · HealthWESTCHESTER JEWISH COUNCIL INC: $500 · ReligionSCARSDALE FORUM INC: $200 · Community Improvement
Other$59,650Philanthropy$13,171Education$3,500Arts & Culture$1,855International$1,000Health$780Religion$500Community Improvement$200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $13,171 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRANDOM FARMS KIDS THEATER INC: $1,855 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER JEWISH COUNCIL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCARSDALE FORUM INC: $200 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $180 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 UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds RANDOM FARMS KIDS THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds WESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTCHESTER JEWISH COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds SCARSDALE FORUM INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Richard Mazer Fund Inc Co Kenneth Mazer funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard Mazer Fund Inc Co Kenneth Mazer. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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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    How do I get to Richard Mazer Fund Inc Co Kenneth Mazer?

    Find your warmest path to Richard Mazer Fund Inc Co Kenneth Mazer 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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