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Rocker Family Foundation Inc

The organization is a supporting organization which makes grants to carry out the purposes of the jewish community foundation of greater metrowest nj, inc.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$403k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

73% of Rocker Family Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Community Foundation Of Greater Metrowest Nj, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 21 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$5.4MArts & Culture$473kHealth$424kInternational$397kFood & Nutrition$180kReligion$145kPublic Benefit$135kCivil Rights$111kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 24 grants below total $941,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,059,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $118,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $237k
  • $250k+2 grants · $674k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jewish Community Foundation of Greater MetroWest$403,000
Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest NJ$271,000
International Paruresis Association Inc$25,000
New Jersey Performing Arts Center$25,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL$20,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY$20,000
CONSUMERS UNION OF THE UNITED STATES$15,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$12,000
Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center$10,000
Foundation for the Defence of Democracies$10,000
Friends of WLRN$10,000
WNET Radio$10,000
Jewish Community Center of MetroWest$10,000
ASHOKA$10,000
WPBT Communications Foundation Inc$10,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $10k) 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.

area typical 11%Jewish Community Center of MetroWest: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 23 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
10

Total granted

$1.9M
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+18%

Still filing today

87%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthArts & CultureCivil RightsEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +83%
  • CF
    Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +97%
  • AF
    American Friends of Livnot ULehibanot
    8× · 2017–2024 · $145k · revenue +128%

Funded once

  • JH
    JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +96%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +1%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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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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Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
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Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
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American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
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American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
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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
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Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
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Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
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National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
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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
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Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj and the most unlike its peers is Doula Program to Accompany and Comfort 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Pregnancy Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesJewish Community Organizati…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr18%18%20–35yr14%42%35–55yr11%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr18%4%20–35yr14%14%35–55yr11%80%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
12%
6,333/52,253

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.

04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
29/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ — $2,971,000 · PhilanthropyJewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $2,413,204 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ+1 more — $20,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican Friends of Livnot ULehibanot — $145,000 · InternationalPARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC — $92,000 · InternationalASHOKA — $90,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $90,000 · InternationalFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc — $70,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $20,000 · International+3 more — $34,500 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL PARURESIS ASSOCIATION INC — $117,500 · HealthDOULA PROGRAM TO ACCOMPANY AND COMFORT INC — $67,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC — $67,500 · HealthSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC — $50,000 · HealthACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY — $50,000 · HealthSAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER — $30,000 · HealthJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Health+2 more — $13,500 · HealthNEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION — $225,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC — $90,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $17,000 · Arts & CultureCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $160,000 · Food & NutritionWNETWLIW — $91,000 · OtherSAINT BARNABAS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $60,000 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $101,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC — $90,000 · OtherPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $80,000 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $37,500 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $26,000 · OtherROW NEW YORK INC — $20,000 · Other+4 more — $37,000 · OtherCONSUMER REPORTS INC — $135,000 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$5,404,204International$541,500Health$421,000Arts & Culture$332,000Food & Nutrition$160,000Other$542,500Public Benefit$135,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ — $2,971,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $2,413,204 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetNEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION — $225,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $160,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Livnot ULehibanot — $145,000 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetCONSUMER REPORTS INC — $135,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PARURESIS ASSOCIATION INC — $117,500 over 8y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $101,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC — $92,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetASHOKA — $90,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC — $90,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $90,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC — $90,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc — $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDOULA PROGRAM TO ACCOMPANY AND COMFORT INC — $67,500 over 9y, 7.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC — $67,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY — $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROW NEW YORK INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROWEST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMON GOOD INSTITUTE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJNJ19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Rocker Family 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.

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no gov · 80%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Jackson Health Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
11report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Rocker Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Rocker Family Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home