· Private foundation
The Ben-Abou Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $243k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $138,429 |
| Chabad of Sacramento | $105,000 |
| BETH RIVKAH | $23,000 |
| Yeshivas Beis Dovid Shlomo | $20,600 |
| BNOS MENACHEM | $18,995 |
| UNITED LUBAVITCHER YESHIVA | $16,560 |
| Kanfay Nesharim | $15,000 |
| CAMP EMUNAH | $11,130 |
| Bikur Cholim of Crown Heights | $10,000 |
| Jewish Latin Center | $8,000 |
| SOLOMON CENTER | $7,500 |
| Mei Chaya Mushka Mikvah Inc | $5,000 |
| United Talmidei Hakvutze Inc | $5,000 |
| Congregation Chaim Vachesed | $3,600 |
| Global Community Charter School | $3,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- YGYeshiva Gedolah Rabbinical Institute of New England Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $79k · revenue +165%
- GCGLOBAL COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL3× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +12%
- SCSOLOMON CENTER INC3× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- UTUnited Talmudic Academyone grant, 2023 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $20k
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
publish religious books
Religious Teaching
To make grants to religious and charitable organizations
Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.
Chabad of Medellin Columbia Inc is an organization dedicated to furthering the religious, educational, and charitable needs of the Jewish Community.
encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.
TO FOCUS ON JEWISH EDUCATION AND SPIRITUALITY AND to engage with the Almighty by means of passionate prayer, to delve into the inner dimensions of the Torah, and to grow in ones relationship with Hashem.
Provide college level education and extensive background of jewish law and talmudic studies and rabbinical ordination.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Keren Hachomesh Inc and the most unlike its peers is Neros L'ha'ir Inc. 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 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 68 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 Yeshiva Gedolah Rabbinical Institute of New England Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAS BEIS DOVID INC ↗
- Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM OF CROWN HEIGHTS ↗
- Who funds CROWN HEIGHTS CHEVRA SIMCHAS SHABBOS V'YOM TOV INC ↗
- Who funds KEREN HACHOMESH INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH LATIN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds United Talmidei Hakvutze 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: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Nash Charity Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Lavie Shterna Popack Family Foundat · Saul Schottenstein Foundation C · The Jacobson Foundation · Bracha Vehatzlacha Foundation Inc · Lets Make It Happen Ny Inc · Jla Charitable Foundation · Hp Foundation Inc · Barber Family 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 The Ben-Abou 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.