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The Chertkof Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$27k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,500
Organizations funded a year
3 to 16
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$521k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Chertkof Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$17k25%
FY20233$17k33%
FY20227$10k71%
FY202116$40k75%
FY20206$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$100kReligion$62kEducation$22kPhilanthropy$13kFood & Nutrition$4kHealth$3kCivil Rights$2kHuman Services$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Roland Park Country School Inc$10,00010%
Bucknell University$6,00020%
The Greenmount School Inc$3,00010%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$2,00010%
Chabad Lubavitch of Utah Inc$1,5001n/a
The Maryland Food Bank Inc$1,50020%
National Audubon Society Inc$1,00010%
Chestnut Ridge Baptist Church$1,0001n/a
Baltimore Zionist District Inc$1,00020%
Baltimore Lab School Inc$1,00010%
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All grantees of The Chertkof Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Roland Park Country School Inc$10,00010%
Bucknell University$6,00020%
The Greenmount School Inc$3,00010%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$2,00010%
Chabad Lubavitch of Utah Inc$1,5001n/a
The Maryland Food Bank Inc$1,50020%
National Audubon Society Inc$1,00010%
Chestnut Ridge Baptist Church$1,0001n/a
Baltimore Zionist District Inc$1,00020%
Baltimore Lab School Inc$1,00010%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$1,00010%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$1,00020%
Baltimore Hunger Project LLC$1,00010%
Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel$5001n/a
American Friends of Unit 669 Inc$50010%
Gilman School Incorporated$20010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($71k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Chertkof Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRoland Park Country School Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Greenmount School Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Maryland Food Bank Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Audubon Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaltimore Zionist District Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBaltimore Lab School Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaltimore Hunger Project LLC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Unit 669 Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGilman School Incorporated: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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 FundNY11.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About The Chertkof Foundation Inc

How much does The Chertkof Foundation Inc give?
The Chertkof Foundation Inc reported 5 grants totaling $27,172 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Chertkof Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (48%), Religion (30%), Education (11%).
Who are The Chertkof Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Roland Park Country School Inc ($10k), Bucknell University ($6k), The Greenmount School Inc ($3k).
Does The Chertkof Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Chertkof Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Chertkof Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The Chertkof Foundation Inc based?
The Chertkof Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 27 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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