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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
63
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$698k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$4.8MReligion$1.6MEducation$472kInternational$254kFood & Nutrition$94kHuman Services$80kHealth$64kArts & Culture$59kOther$0
02FY2024 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k50 grants · $139k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $298k
  • $250k+1 grant · $698k
$3,250
Median grant
8
States reached
$85k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
YAD DAVID$10,000
STANDWITHUS$10,000
SAR ACADEMY$7,722
MOISE SAFRA CENTER$7,165
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISLAND HARVEST LTD: $3k → 7%HEARTBEET LIFESHARING: $1k → 12%HEARTBEET LIFESHARING: $1k → 12%HEARTBEET LIFESHARING: $1k → 12%HEARTBEET LIFESHARING: $1k → 12%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $1k → 17%THE SPECIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1k → 11%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $1k → 17%THE SPECIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1k → 11%THE SPECIAL CHILDRENS CENTER: $1k → 11%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $19k → 17%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $7k → 17%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $6k → 17%BONEI OLAM INC: $18k → 20%MISASKIM CORP: $1k → 20%MITZVAH MAN FOUNDATION: $1k → 20%ACHIEZER: $3k → 6%ACHIEZER: $2k → 6%ACHIEZER: $1k → 6%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $5k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $20k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
VT
WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.3M · 89 repeat orgs$346k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
74

Total granted

$7.3M
$236k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+25%

Still filing today

36%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesReligionArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • MH
    MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $292k · revenue +60%
  • RZ
    RELIGIOUS ZIONIST YOUTH MOVEMENT BNEI AKIVA OF THE US AND CANADA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $140k · revenue +13%
  • CL
    CHABAD LUBAVITCH MITZVAH TANK
    7× · 2018–2024 · $45k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • CT
    CONGREGATION TIFERES CHASIDEI NADVORNE
    one grant, 2018 · $32k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -49%
  • CH
    CHABAD HOUSE PUBLICATIONS
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -89%
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.

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Sherit Isroel
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2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
4
University of Judaism Foundation
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5
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
6
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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7
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
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8
Tal Hashamayim Foundation
Religion
9
Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Ohr Meir Ubracha

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

Philanthropy
12
Yad Yosef Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 191 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/71
Grantees still filing
51/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AFYTY: $4,793,616 · OtherAFYTY+141 more: $1,880,366 · Other+141 moreMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $292,431 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $37,227 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $13,590 · Arts & CultureRELIGIOUS ZIONIST YOUTH MOVEMENT BNEI AKIVA OF THE US AND CANADA INC: $140,425 · InternationalYAD DAVID INC: $44,000 · InternationalTOV VACHESED INC: $27,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $26,360 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $25,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $23,775 · InternationalNISON PINSON FOUNDATION: $11,000 · International+5 more: $22,650 · InternationalCHABAD LUBAVITCH MITZVAH TANK: $45,480 · ReligionCHABAD HOUSE PUBLICATIONS: $25,000 · ReligionGROVE STREET MIKVAH INC: $18,000 · ReligionNEFESH YEHUDIE INC: $15,000 · ReligionCAMP HASC INC: $8,600 · ReligionChabad Fenway - Huntington Avenue Inc: $7,070 · Religion+2 more: $1,506 · ReligionMOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $36,706 · Human ServicesBELEV ECHAD INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesBonei Olam Inc: $18,000 · Human ServicesACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $5,600 · Human ServicesFOR OUR HEROES BENEFIT FUND: $5,510 · Human ServicesHEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION: $4,080 · Human Services+5 more: $9,500 · Human ServicesCHABAD RELIEF PROJECT INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionTOMCHEI SHABBOS-YAD YESHAYA INC: $12,600 · Food & NutritionMASBIA: $10,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyCenturion Foundation Inc: $5,029 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyUS FRIENDS OF YAD EZRAH INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $1,800 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $1,600 · Philanthropy+2 more: $680 · Philanthropy
Other$6,673,982Arts & Culture$343,248International$320,210Religion$120,656Human Services$99,396Food & Nutrition$62,600Philanthropy$34,109

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $292,431 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetRELIGIOUS ZIONIST YOUTH MOVEMENT BNEI AKIVA OF THE US AND CANADA INC: $140,425 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCHABAD LUBAVITCH MITZVAH TANK: $45,480 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetYAD DAVID INC: $44,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHABAD RELIEF PROJECT INC: $40,000 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $37,227 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $36,706 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTOV VACHESED INC: $27,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $26,360 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHABAD HOUSE PUBLICATIONS: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $23,775 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $22,360 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBELEV ECHAD INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGROVE STREET MIKVAH INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNEFESH YEHUDIE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOMCHEI SHABBOS-YAD YESHAYA INC: $12,600 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $11,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNISON PINSON FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMASBIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCARMEI HA'IR INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP HASC INC: $8,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHATZALAH OF THE ROCKAWAYS & NASSAU COUNTY INC: $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKEREN OR INC: $6,060 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $5,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $5,360 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC BEACH RESCUE UNIT INC: $5,180 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetCenturion Foundation Inc: $5,029 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUS FRIENDS OF YAD EZRAH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION: $4,080 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Brain Tumor Association: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND HARVEST LTD: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGDAL TORAH INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRutgers Learning Network Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHULAMITH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $1,023 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCheder Menachem INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $1,000 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 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 Bonei Olam Inc ↗
  • Who funds GROVE STREET MIKVAH INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKAWAY CITIZENS SAFETY PATROL INC ↗
  • Who funds NEFESH YEHUDIE INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION 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.

Jewish Communal FundSwieca Children Found…The Ojc FundFjcJack Adjmi Family Fou…E R G FoundationThe Jmg FoundationThe Setton FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Anne and Natalio Frid…Aviva & Marvin Sussma…David & Esther Musche…
Jewish Communal FundNY42.3× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Spodek Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spodek Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 Spodek Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Spodek Family 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 191 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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