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Spodek Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k50 grants · $139k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $298k
- $250k+1 grant · $698k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AFYTY | $698,000 |
| BNEI AKIVA OF THE US & CANADA | $103,425 |
| RAMAZ SCHOOL | $68,280 |
| MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $66,159 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE IDF RABBINATE | $60,310 |
| BELEV ECHAD | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,309 |
| THE SHUL | $17,092 |
| NEFESH YEHUDIE INC | $15,000 |
| THE ALTNEAU SYNAGOGUE | $10,876 |
| THE JEWISH CENTER OF ATLANTIC BEACH | $10,123 |
| STANDWITHUS | $10,000 |
| YAD DAVID | $10,000 |
| SAR ACADEMY | $7,722 |
| MOISE SAFRA CENTER | $7,165 |
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 (FY17–24, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
89 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- MHMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $292k · revenue +19%
- RZRELIGIOUS ZIONIST YOUTH MOVEMENT BNEI AKIVA OF THE US AND CANADA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $140k · revenue +13%
- CLCHABAD LUBAVITCH MITZVAH TANK7× · 2018–2024 · $45k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- CTCONGREGATION TIFERES CHASIDEI NADVORNEone grant, 2018 · $32k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -49%
- CHCHABAD HOUSE PUBLICATIONSone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -89%
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.
The organization provides financial assistance to victims of acts of terrorism in the state of israel.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nison Pinson Foundation. 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 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 191 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.
- Who funds MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RELIGIOUS ZIONIST YOUTH MOVEMENT BNEI AKIVA OF THE US AND CANADA INC ↗
- Who funds CHABAD LUBAVITCH MITZVAH TANK ↗
- Who funds YAD DAVID INC ↗
- Who funds CHABAD RELIEF PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds MOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TOV VACHESED INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds CHABAD HOUSE PUBLICATIONS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BELEV ECHAD INC ↗
- Who funds GROVE STREET MIKVAH INC ↗
- Who funds Bonei Olam Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKAWAY CITIZENS SAFETY PATROL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEFESH YEHUDIE INC ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Swieca Children Foundation · The Ojc Fund · Fjc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · E R G Foundation · The Jmg Foundation · The Setton Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Anne and Natalio Fridman Foundation · Aviva & Marvin Sussman Foundation · David & Esther Muschel Foundation
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 Spodek Family Foundation 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.
- Heartbeet Lifesharing Corporation — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- The Special Children Center — 5% of income from government
- Mesorah Heritage Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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