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The Celebrity Foundation Inc

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.

$278k
Granted FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$884kEducation$382kHuman Services$158kHealth$81kPhilanthropy$69kYouth Development$69kInternational$40kFood & Nutrition$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k43 grants · $106k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $171k
$2,300
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY DAYANUT PROGRAM$28,930
LURIA ACADEMY OF BROOKLYN$25,000
LOGAN COMMUNITY FH INC$24,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ESHEL$22,360
Individual grant recipient$22,150
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL$20,000
SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM$19,000
UJA-FEDERATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$9,619
Individual grant recipient$8,400
OHEL YITZHAK OF ALLENHURST$7,402
THE NEXT STEP CO ISRAEL MEDICAL FUND$7,200
COLEL CHABAD$6,400
RENEWAL$5,400
HILLEL YESHIVA$5,252
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 (FY17–25, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MY SOLDIER INC: $2k → 6%THE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $2k → 11%CHAYIM ARUCHIM INC: $1k → 11%THE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $1k → 11%ISRAEL MEDICAL FUND: $500 → 11%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $25k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $19k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $19k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $18k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $15k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $7k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $6k → 20%OTSAR FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 20%OTSAR FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 20%BETH OLOTH: $2k → 20%BETH OLOTH: $1k → 20%BETH OLOTH: $1k → 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
OH
NJ
CT
CA
MO
DC
GA
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 66 repeat orgs$221k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
54

Total granted

$2.0M
$198k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+8%

Still filing today

48%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthYouth 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

  • LA
    LURIA ACADEMY OF BROOKLYN
    5× · 2019–2025 · $166k · revenue +49%
  • NS
    NORTH SHORE HEBREW ACADEMY
    5× · 2017–2022 · $154k · revenue +71%
  • AJ
    ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $144k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • YO
    YESHIVAH OF FLATBUSH
    one grant, 2017 · $121k
  • HE
    HATZALAH EMS OF JERSEY SHORE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • MF
    MABAS FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +82%
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
3
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
4
American Friends of Shviti Hashem Inc

To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.

Religion
5
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
6
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
7
Congregation Beth-El Sephardic Center of Jamaica Estates

Congregation beth-el sephardic center of jamaica estates is a religious institution

Religion
8
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
9
Torah Ore Seminary

To promote the furtherance of jewish religious and rabbinic education on a college and graduate level in israel and to increase the dissemination of scholarly research works in the fields of torah, talmud and halacha.

Education
10
Ohel Avraham

Support for jewish educational programs

International
11
Chabad of Bensonhurst Inc

Chabad of Bensonhurst Inc is an organization dedicated to furthering the religious, educational, and charitable needs of the Jewish Community.

—
12
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shefa School; the most unlike its peers is Widow and Hesed Fund. 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

67 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. 67 of the 134 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/67
Grantees still filing
44/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $318,003 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNORTH SHORE HEBREW ACADEMY: $154,480 · OtherNORTH SHORE HEBREW ACADEMYYESHIVAH OF FLATBUSH: $120,500 · OtherYESHIVAH OF FLATBUSHIndividual grant recipient: $102,774 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOHEL YITZHAK OF ALLENHURST: $81,709 · OtherOHEL YITZHAK OF ALLENHURSTREACH FOR THE STARS: $62,000 · Other+86 more: $475,801 · Other+86 moreLURIA ACADEMY OF BROOKLYN: $165,761 · EducationLURIA ACADEMY OF BROOKLYNABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL: $144,000 · EducationABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SC…BARKAI FOUNDATION INC: $123,103 · EducationBARKAI FOUNDATION INCAmerican Friends of EshelInc: $22,610 · Education+6 more: $42,386 · Education+6 moreLOGAN COMMUNITY FH INC: $72,000 · ReligionLOGAN COMM…SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY DAYANUT PROGRAM INC: $51,930 · ReligionSEPHARDIC …SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $36,000 · ReligionSEPHARDIC …SEPHARDIC INSTITUTE SEPHARDIC INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED LEARNING: $34,920 · ReligionSEPHARDIC …+11 more: $14,589 · Religion+11 moreSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC: $108,942 · Human Services+6 more: $12,001 · Human ServicesUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $57,600 · Philanthropy+3 more: $3,501 · PhilanthropyTHE SEPHARDIC FOOD FUND INC: $20,800 · Food & NutritionSHARE OF NEW SQUARE INC DBA CHESED 247: $1,800 · Food & NutritionCHAI LIFELINE INC: $12,350 · HealthThe Halachic Organ Donor Society Inc DBA Ematai: $2,360 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER: $1,000 · HealthSIMHA ORGANIZATION INC: $1,000 · Health
Other$1,315,267Education$497,860Religion$209,439Human Services$120,943Philanthropy$61,101Food & Nutrition$22,600Health$16,710

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLURIA ACADEMY OF BROOKLYN: $165,761 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH SHORE HEBREW ACADEMY: $154,480 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL: $144,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBARKAI FOUNDATION INC: $123,103 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC: $108,942 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLOGAN COMMUNITY FH INC: $72,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $57,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY DAYANUT PROGRAM INC: $51,930 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $36,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSEPHARDIC INSTITUTE SEPHARDIC INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED LEARNING: $34,920 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC: $31,800 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of EshelInc: $22,610 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE SEPHARDIC FOOD FUND INC: $20,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHEFA SCHOOL: $12,986 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMekor Hayim Center Inc: $12,600 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $12,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYESHIVAT MORESHET YERUSHALAYIM INC: $7,800 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BRIDGE ACADEMY INC: $7,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMENACHEM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,400 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMABAS FUND INC: $5,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTebah Educational Services Inc: $4,008 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetBETH OLOTH: $4,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BRIDGE ACADEMY INC: $3,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRISING HEROES INC: $2,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC: $2,360 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Halachic Organ Donor Society Inc DBA Ematai: $2,360 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMY SOLDIER INC: $2,001 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFUND FOR ISRAEL'S TOMORROW: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOtsar Family Services Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEHEBAR SEPHARDIC CENTER INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY NEW JERSEY INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OF NEW SQUARE INC DBA CHESED 247: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPorat Yoseph Foundation: $1,253 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIMAD ALON MOREH INC: $1,126 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYeshivat Lev Torah: $1,001 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEIE ORGANIZATION INC: $1,001 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSIMHA ORGANIZATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF MIDDLESEX & MONMOUTH COUNTIES A NJ NONPROFIT CORP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Kishinev Jewry: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTORAH VE AHAVAH INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKOL HANEARIM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHAYIM ARUCHIM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $680 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 LURIA ACADEMY OF BROOKLYN ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BARKAI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds LOGAN COMMUNITY FH INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY DAYANUT PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds SEPHARDIC INSTITUTE SEPHARDIC INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds American Friends of EshelInc ↗
  • Who funds THE SEPHARDIC FOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SHEFA SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Mekor Hayim Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVAT MORESHET YERUSHALAYIM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE ACADEMY 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 FundIsaac & Marjorie Gind…Jack Adjmi Family Fou…The Ralph S Gindi Fam…Ralph J Harary Founda…The Howard Hoffman & …Chehebar Family Found…I Chera & Sons Founda…E R G FoundationThe Setton FoundationSamuel & Mollie Jemal…The Mamiye Foundation…
Jewish Communal FundNY57.4× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Isaac & Marjorie Gindi Foundation Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Ralph S Gindi Family Foundation · Ralph J Harary Foundation Inc · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · Chehebar Family Foundation · I Chera & Sons Foundation Inc · E R G Foundation · The Setton Foundation · Samuel & Mollie Jemal Foundation Co Jem Realty · The Mamiye Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Literacy New Jersey Inc: 28% of income from government
  • The Special Children Center: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 134 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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