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Rivka Leists 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.

$14k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$121kPhilanthropy$73kHuman Services$38kInternational$35kFood & Nutrition$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kEducation$540Arts & Culture$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$447k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHUVU RETURN INC$10,000
CONGREGATION ZICHRON YISROEL$1,000
BOSTONER BAIS MEDRASH OF LAWRENCE$900
FRIENDS OF BIKUR CHOLIM EZRAT ACHIM$500
VARIOUS BELOW 500$400
Individual grant recipient$360
LADIES BIKUR CHOLIM D'SATMAR$360
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%AVIGDOR'S HELPING HAND: $180 → 13%THE DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $16k → 6%OORAH: $1k → 11%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $10k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $9k → 6%OORAH: $1k → 11%OORAH: $1k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $10k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $10k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $10k → 11%KDT OUTREACH: $2k → 20%AVIHEM INC: $360 → 20%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$355k · 19 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
35

Total granted

$355k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+20%

Still filing today

37%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionPhilanthropyFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalOther
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

  • SR
    SHUVU RETURN INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $73k · revenue +4%
  • DM
    DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $35k · revenue +231%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER
    3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • CO
    CONG OHEL TORAH
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • KO
    KDT OUTREACH INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -13%
  • YD
    YESHIVA DARCHEI TORAH
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
American Friends of Kishorit Inc

American support organization for Kishorit, a community for people with disabilities in Israel.

Philanthropy
4
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
5
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
6
Sherit Isroel
—
7
American Friends of Shviti Hashem Inc

To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.

Religion
8
American Friends of Kiryat Chinuch Labonim Inc

To provide grants to institutions providing religious education, shelter,social & health services to underprivliged children

International
9
American Friends of Neveh Zion

To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel

Religion
10
American Friends of Yeshiva High School of Kiryat Arba Inc

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.

Philanthropy
11
Ohr Meir Ubracha

The organization provides financial assistance to victims of acts of terrorism in the state of israel.

Philanthropy
12
American Friends of Zvi Latzadik Dba Breslov Research Institute Jerusalem

To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Yad Eliezer; the most unlike its peers is Hatzalah of the Rockaways & Nassau County 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

21 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. 21 of the 58 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $101,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBINYAN YERUSHLAIM: $25,540 · OtherBINYAN YERUSHLAIMCONGREGATION MOSDOS AMROM CHASIDA INC: $20,850 · OtherCONGREGATION MOSDOS AMROM CHASIDA INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF IYIM: $13,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF IYIMIndividual grant recipient: $11,300 · Other+34 more: $46,080 · Other+34 moreSHUVU RETURN INC: $72,500 · PhilanthropySHUVU RETURN INC+2 more: $1,360 · PhilanthropyDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $34,700 · Human ServicesDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND …AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $30,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF …OORAH INC: $3,000 · Human Services+3 more: $2,640 · Human ServicesMASBIA: $7,300 · Food & NutritionMASBIA OF QUEENS: $1,800 · Food & NutritionFRIENDS OF BIKUR CHOLIM EZRAT ACHIM: $8,750 · InternationalAMERICAN FREINDS OF BIRCAS CHAIM: $2,600 · ReligionKEREN HASHVIIS INC: $1,800 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF EMUNAH VCHESED: $1,000 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MOSDOS BOSTON IN ISRAEL INC: $825 · ReligionCONGREGATION DORG: $500 · ReligionHATZALAH OF THE ROCKAWAYS & NASSAU COUNTY INC: $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RCT INC: $500 · Education
Other$217,770Philanthropy$73,860Human Services$70,340Food & Nutrition$9,100International$8,750Religion$6,725Public Safety & Disaster$1,000Education$500

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 budgetSHUVU RETURN INC: $72,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $34,700 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BIKUR CHOLIM EZRAT ACHIM: $8,750 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMASBIA: $7,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOORAH INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FREINDS OF BIRCAS CHAIM: $2,600 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetKDT OUTREACH INC: $2,100 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKEREN HASHVIIS INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASBIA OF QUEENS: $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF DARCHEI HILLEL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOORDINATING COUNCIL FOR THE JEWISH HOMELAND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHATZALAH OF THE ROCKAWAYS & NASSAU COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF EMUNAH VCHESED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RCT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONGREGATION DORG: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVIHEM INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKamenitzer Yeshiva of Jerusalem: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVIGDORS HELPING HAND 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 SHUVU RETURN INC ↗
  • Who funds DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BIKUR CHOLIM EZRAT ACHIM ↗
  • Who funds MASBIA ↗
  • Who funds OORAH INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FREINDS OF BIRCAS CHAIM ↗
  • Who funds KDT OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds KEREN HASHVIIS INC ↗
  • Who funds MASBIA OF QUEENS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF DARCHEI HILLEL INC ↗
  • Who funds COORDINATING COUNCIL FOR THE JEWISH HOMELAND INC ↗
  • Who funds HATZALAH OF THE ROCKAWAYS & NASSAU COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF EMUNAH VCHESED ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MOSDOS BOSTON IN ISRAEL 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 FundJack Adjmi Family Fou…Zichron Yechiel Meche…The Basch Family Foun…Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Communal FundGemsy Zay Foundation …The Tzedakah FundRegina Goldwasser Fou…Alyad Foundation IncZichron Chaim Charity…Otzar Hachesed Founda…
The Ojc FundNY39.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · The Basch Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Communal Fund · Gemsy Zay Foundation Inc · The Tzedakah Fund · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · Alyad Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Otzar Hachesed Foundation Trust

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 Rivka Leists Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rivka Leists 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 →median 0%
  • Oorah Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Rivka Leists Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rivka Leists Foundation 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 58 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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