· Private foundation
Spencer Raphael Jaffe Charitable Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Spencer Raphael Jaffe Charitable Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to American Endowment Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Spencer Raphael Jaffe Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $38k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k23 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL FUND OF ISREAL | $17,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL | $5,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,145 |
| AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WIEZMAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF YEMIN ORDE | $2,200 |
| ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY | $1,800 |
| CONGREGATION TORAH OHR INC | $518 |
| TORAH ACADEMY OF BOCA RATON INC | $500 |
| HADASSAH | $215 |
| CONGREGATION ANSHEI SHALOM | $175 |
| WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS AMERICAN SECTION | $172 |
| THE PAPANICOLAU CORPS FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC | $150 |
| US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $90 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $36) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +141% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +213%
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum2× · 2017–2018 · $200 · revenue +25%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC2× · 2017–2018 · $80 · revenue +141%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF PELECH ZICHRON YAAKOVone grant, 2017 · $13k
- ACAMERICAN COMMITTEE SHAARAY ZEDAK HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $4k
- COCOMMITTEE OF ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EASTone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
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.
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…
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Yad vashem usa foundation (the organization) is dedicated to support the memorialization and awareness of, and education regarding, the holocaust, as currently overseen, supervised and conducted by yad vashem, the holocaust martyrs and…
The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…
To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel
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…
Avodah develops lifelong social justice leaders whose work is informed by jewish values and who inspire the jewish community to work toward a more just and equitable world.
The Organization was granted a charter as a not for profit corporation for patriotic and educational purposes with special concern for the welfare of veterans. The Organization's principal activities consist of protecting the benefits and…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The jewish women's archive documents jewish women's stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change.jwa is dedicated to expanding and transforming the historical narrative by restoring jewish women and gender…
To provide assistance to organizations in the old city of jerusalem and the ancient city of david.
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 44 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds TORAH ACADEMY OF BOCA RATON INC ↗
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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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Spencer Raphael Jaffe Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spencer Raphael Jaffe Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jewish Association for Residential Care Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Torah Academy of Boca Raton Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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