· Private foundation
The Alexander Firestone Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AVIV HATORAH | $18,000 |
| BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $6,000 |
| ZAKA | $6,000 |
| CHMOL | $6,000 |
| RELIGOUS ZIONISTS OF AMERICA | $1,800 |
| STAND WITH US | $1,800 |
| JUST ONE LIFE | $1,800 |
| THE HEBRON FUND | $1,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $180 |
| TELSHE YESHIVA | $180 |
| FLAME | $180 |
| NOAM SHABBOS | $180 |
| KEREN HAYELED | $180 |
| DISKIN ORPHAN HOME | $180 |
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 (FY22–24, $540) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- AHAVIV HA TORAH9× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +55%
- HFHEBRON FUND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +110%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ARIEL INC7× · 2017–2023 · $37k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- SISOUTHERN INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION & RESEARCH INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -95%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $2k
- AFAMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAUGEone grant, 2018 · $300
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.
Religious School
Etzion Foundation supports Yeshivat Har Etzion and its affiliated educational programs and is dedicated to fostering development of Jewish education and Jewish leadership in Israel and around the world.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
Providing financial assistance to needy individuals as well as to other charitable, educational, and religious organizations in israel and worldwide
To further jewish education in israel
Friends of Jerusalem's mission is to provide assistance to the needs and indigent living in Jerusalem and all of Israel.
To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel
Aleh Israel Foundation, Inc.(The Foundation)is a Foundation that provides support to rehabilitative centers caring for most severely disabled children in Israel.
To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Israel Fund Ltd and the most unlike its peers is Boys Town Jerusalem Foundation of America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 33 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 AVIV HA TORAH ↗
- Who funds HEBRON FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ARIEL INC ↗
- Who funds ONE ISRAEL FUND LTD ↗
- Who funds Gush Etzion Foundation % Juliette Landesman ↗
- Who funds NE EMAN FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds JUST ONE LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Zaka Tel-Aviv Inc ↗
- Who funds Western Wall Heritage Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION & RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds KIMPATORIN AID INC ↗
- Who funds Noam Shabbos Inc ↗
- Who funds Great Charity Chaye Olam Institutions of Jerusalem Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA ↗
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 Nathan and Marilyn Silberman Fdn · Jewish Communal Fund · The Tzedaka Fund · Cd Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · House of Gross Foundation Inc · E R G Foundation · Moses and Miriam Vogel Charitable Foundation Tr · The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Ojc Fund
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 The Alexander Firestone 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 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.