· Public charity
Rodef Chesed DBA Ahavas Chesed
To distribute funds to non-profit organizations who are exempt under section 501 C 3 of the Internal Revenue Code or the equivalent, thereof in foreign countries.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of Rodef Chesed DBA Ahavas Chesed’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $2,282,013 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,547,607 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,265,594 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 · FY2023
- $50k–250k2 grants · $259k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ruach Chaim | $874,838 |
| Machon Mashe Rockeach Inc | $835,126 |
| Kollel Metziyonim Lhoroah Of | $313,500 |
| Keren Chasdei Moshe | $153,549 |
| Congregation Tiferes Yaakov | $105,000 |
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 (FY21–22, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $314k 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
- MMMACHON MASEH ROCKEACH INC6× · 2017–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +29%
- YIYAAZORU INC2× · 2021–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +81%
- J2JES 2016 INC2× · 2021–2022 · $140k · revenue +39% · 45% of their budget
Funded once
- AEAVRAHAM EZKORone grant, 2022 · $300k
- NYNACHLAS YITZCHOKone grant, 2022 · $67k
- CBCONG BORUCH YECHESKEL INCone grant, 2019 · $61k
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.
To distribute funds to non-profit organizations who are exempt under section 501 C 3 of the Internal Revenue Code or the equivalent, thereof in foreign countries.
To provide financial and other assistance to educational institutions. to solicit, accept, hold and invest, reinvest and administer funds exclusively for charitable, educational, religious purposes.
To provide financial assistance to religious and charitable organizations worldwide to help them continue their activities.
Granting distibutions to Organizations that qualify as exempt Organinzations under section 501 (C)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code and/or the equivalent thereof in foreign…
Provide college level education and extensive background of jewish law and talmudic studies and rabbinical ordination.
To make grants to religious and charitable organizations
Rinas bais yaakov, inc was established for the charitable purpose of promoting jewish education and jewish identity.
To support and develop jewish educational institutions
Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.
To provide assistance to jewish religious schools
To provide religious instruction & education to jewish children. to operate a religious school and all matters pertaining to the religious and secular aspects of operating a school.
Support of religious schools in Israel
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neki Chapayim Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jes 2016 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
8 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. 8 of the 34 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.
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 · Bikur Vezrat Cholim Inc · Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Inc · The Miriam and Esther Foundation · Aron and Shaindy Grossman Foundatio · Enkess Charitable Foundation Trust The · Chaim V'Shulem Foundation Inc · The Strasbourg Foundation · American Friends of Bnai Levy Foundation · Sara Rechnitzer Foundation · Pledger Charitable Ltd · Yeshiva Chasidei Belz Belz Institutions in Israel
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 Rodef Chesed DBA Ahavas Chesed 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.