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The Basch 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.

$358k
Granted FY2024still arriving
99
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$1.4MPhilanthropy$131kHuman Services$80kEducation$61kHealth$58kArts & Culture$35kHousing & Shelter$26kYouth Development$24kOther$0
02FY2024 · 99 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k89 grants · $163k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $195k
$1,800
Median grant
7
States reached
$15k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YESHIVAS MIR YERUSHALAYIM$47,818
MOSDOT BOTOSHAN INC$36,900
CHAIM V'CHESED$18,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF TELZSTONE$17,500
CONGREGATION EZRAS YISROEL$16,500
LACHMEI MORDECHAI$13,600
CONGREGATION BAIS HILLEL$11,800
CONGREGATION OHR CHAIM$11,550
YESHIVA GEDOLA OF WATERBURY$11,220
CONGREGATION KNESETH ISRAEL$10,000
CHABAD OF BROOKLYN COLLEGE$7,000
YESHIVA GEDOLAH OF CLIFFWOOD$5,000
YESHIVA MEOR ENAIM$5,000
CONG ZERA KODESH$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA MEAH SHEARIM$5,000
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, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TZIDKAS AVRAHAM: $360 → 28%GEMACH OF JACKSON: $500 → 11%OZER DALIM FAMILY ASSIST CHARITABLE ORG INC: $180 → 14%THE DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $180 → 6%KEREN ZICHRON HENYA INC: $2k → 11%SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $360 → 11%EIM LEAH: $180 → 11%EZRAS CHOLIM D SATMAR INC: $72 → 20%EZRAS CHOLIM D SATMAR INC: $36 → 20%SUITS OF KINDNESS: $2k → 20%SUITS OF KINDNESS: $2k → 20%SUITS OF KINDNESS: $2k → 20%SUITS OF KINDNESS: $1k → 20%SUITS OF KINDNESS: $1k → 20%SUITS OF KINDNESS: $1k → 20%SUITS OF KINDNESS: $1k → 20%SIMCHAS SARAH: $1k → 20%SIMCHAS SARAH INC: $360 → 20%SIMCHAS SARAH: $360 → 20%SIMCHAS SARAH INC: $360 → 20%JERUSALEM OPEN HOUSE - LINAS HACHESED: $250 → 20%JERUSALEM OPEN HOUSE - LINAS HACHESED: $250 → 20%JERUSALEM OPEN HOUSE - LINAS HACHESED: $250 → 20%JERUSALEM OPEN HOUSE - LINAS HACHESED: $250 → 20%JERUSALEM OPEN HOUSE - LINAS HACHESED: $250 → 20%FRIENDS OF LEV SAMEACH TRUST: $75 → 20%A TIME: $3k → 20%KIMPATORIN AID: $3k → 20%AVIHEM: $2k → 20%A TIME: $1k → 20%KIMPATORIN AID: $750 → 20%A TIME: $500 → 20%KIMPATORIN AID: $350 → 20%KIMPATORIN AID: $180 → 20%A TIME: $180 → 20%KIMPATORIN AID: $180 → 20%BONEI OLAM INC: $750 → 20%BONEI OLAM INC: $680 → 20%KIMPATORIN AID: $180 → 20%MISASKIM: $360 → 20%BONEI OLAM INC: $180 → 20%WE LOVE TO HELP INC: $180 → 20%WE LOVE TO HELP INC: $180 → 20%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

IL
NY
OR
NJ
CT
CA
NE
MD
LA
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 141 repeat orgs$306k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

141 repeat relationships: 62 still active in FY2024, 79 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

141
195

Total granted

$1.5M
$245k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+14%

Still filing today

28%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
ReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $194k · revenue +72%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DAAS AHARON INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $68k · revenue +31%
  • CL
    CHAI LIFELINE INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH INSTITUTIONS
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -55%
  • AI
    AGUDATH ISRAEL OF MADISON
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • KB
    KNESSETH BAIS YAAKOV
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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.

1
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
3
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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4
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
5
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
6
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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7
Gemilas Chesed Kramer Inc
Philanthropy
8
Chabad Lametayel Inc

encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.

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9
Sherit Isroel
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10
Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship
Religion
11
Chasdei Yetev Lev Inc

Provide financial assistance to needy individuals, and to religious, educational, and charitable organizations in us and abroad.

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12
Tzemach Yifroch Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chasdei Yisroel Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Friends of the Pittsburgh Institutions. 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

98 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. 98 of the 373 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)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/98
Grantees still filing
63/98
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOSDOT BOTOSHAN INC: $91,460 · OtherMOSDOT BOTOSHAN INCCONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM: $90,057 · OtherCONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIMCONGREGATION OHR CHAIM: $67,930 · OtherCONGREGATION BAIS HILLEL: $59,300 · OtherCHAIM V CHESED: $50,700 · OtherCONGREGATION KNESETH ISRAEL: $47,361 · Other+150 more: $899,672 · Other+150 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $193,683 · InternationalAMERICAN FRI…+3 more: $6,035 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DAAS AHARON INC: $67,700 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RCT INC: $35,800 · EducationKEREN YEHOSHUA V'YISROEL: $6,000 · Education+1 more: $1,800 · EducationZICHRON ELIYAHU INC: $13,080 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HAMAAYAN FOUNDATION OF JEWISH CULTURE INSTITUTE INC: $9,300 · ReligionPODEH UMATZEL INC: $7,260 · ReligionYESHIVAT OHEL TORAH: $5,018 · ReligionMOSDOS KEVER RACHEL IMEINU: $4,950 · ReligionYESHIVA OHR YITZCHOK: $4,140 · ReligionCHAYIM V CHESED: $3,540 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR: $3,150 · ReligionTorahAnytimeCom Inc: $2,600 · ReligionTORAS CHESED INC: $2,500 · Religion+6 more: $10,418 · ReligionCHAI LIFELINE INC: $19,607 · HealthCHILD LIFE SOCIETY INC: $18,100 · HealthKEREN EZER LNEFESH: $3,160 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF LENEFESH TIDRESHENU INC: $10,550 · PhilanthropyKeren Acheinu Bnei Yisroel Inc: $5,300 · PhilanthropyEIZER CHAIM YOM TOV INC: $3,432 · PhilanthropyDERECH HACHAIM FUND INC: $3,160 · PhilanthropyCONG EZRAS YESOMIM FUND INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FLATBUSH COMMUNITY FUND INC co BERNATH & ROSENBERG PC: $2,600 · PhilanthropyAmerican Commitee for Ahavas Torah Inc: $2,000 · PhilanthropyCHASDEI YISROEL INC: $1,360 · PhilanthropySUITS OF KINDNESS INC: $9,300 · Human ServicesA Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange: $4,760 · Human ServicesKIMPATORIN AID INC: $4,300 · Human ServicesSIMCHAS SARAH INC: $2,080 · Human ServicesAVIHEM INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesKEREN ZICHRON HENYA INC: $1,800 · Human ServicesBonei Olam Inc: $1,610 · Human ServicesJERUSALEM OPEN HOUSE - LINAS HACHESED INC: $1,250 · Human Services
Other$1,306,480International$199,718Education$111,300Religion$65,956Health$41,867Philanthropy$31,402Human Services$27,100

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $193,683 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DAAS AHARON INC: $67,700 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RCT INC: $35,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH INSTITUTIONS: $35,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBL GIRLS TOWN JERUSALEM INC: $26,300 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $19,607 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD LIFE SOCIETY INC: $18,100 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA MEAH SHEARIM INC: $17,800 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetALWAYS OUR KIDS INC: $17,600 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetZICHRON ELIYAHU INC: $13,080 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS-N-CAMP FUND INC: $12,700 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF LENEFESH TIDRESHENU INC: $10,550 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HAMAAYAN FOUNDATION OF JEWISH CULTURE INSTITUTE INC: $9,300 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSUITS OF KINDNESS INC: $9,300 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPODEH UMATZEL INC: $7,260 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetKEREN YEHOSHUA V'YISROEL: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKeren Acheinu Bnei Yisroel Inc: $5,300 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYESHIVAT OHEL TORAH: $5,018 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOSDOS KEVER RACHEL IMEINU: $4,950 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHAAREI CHESED OF LA: $4,950 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetA Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange: $4,760 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OF NEW SQUARE INC DBA CHESED 247: $4,518 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKIMPATORIN AID INC: $4,300 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetYESHIVA OHR YITZCHOK: $4,140 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC: $3,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAYIM V CHESED: $3,540 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEIZER CHAIM YOM TOV INC: $3,432 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDERECH HACHAIM FUND INC: $3,160 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKEREN EZER LNEFESH: $3,160 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR: $3,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONG EZRAS YESOMIM FUND INC: $3,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetKolel Shomre Hachomos of Jerusalem Inc: $2,875 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FLATBUSH COMMUNITY FUND INC co BERNATH & ROSENBERG PC: $2,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTORAS CHESED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIMCHAS SARAH INC: $2,080 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $2,018 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOUR PLACE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetAVIHEM INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MOSDOS MONTREAL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Commitee for Ahavas Torah Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEZER LAMELAMDIM INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetORAYSA INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEREN ZICHRON HENYA INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Yedidim Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTZUR FOUNDATION INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Puah Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $1,610 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHAZAK: $1,360 over 3y, 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DAAS AHARON INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RCT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH INSTITUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds BL GIRLS TOWN JERUSALEM INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD LIFE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA MEAH SHEARIM INC ↗
  • Who funds ALWAYS OUR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds ZICHRON ELIYAHU INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS-N-CAMP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF LENEFESH TIDRESHENU 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.

The Ojc FundJack Adjmi Family Fou…Zichron Yechiel Meche…Zichron Chaim Charity…The Jimmy and Berta K…The Jmg FoundationMd Friedman Family Fo…The Fishoff Family Fo…Donors Fund IncMarbeh Shalom Foundat…The R & S Family Foun…The Sorala Foundation
The Ojc FundNY101.9× affinity149 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · The Jmg Foundation · Md Friedman Family Foundation · The Fishoff Family Foundation · Donors Fund Inc · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · The R & S Family Foundation Inc · The Sorala 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 The Basch Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Basch Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • The Special Children Center: 5% of income from government
  • Yeshiva Tiferes Torah Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
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How do I get to The Basch Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Basch 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 373 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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