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The Deborah & Ronald Eisenberg 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.

$108k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$273kHealth$121kReligion$106kArts & Culture$102kRecreation & Sports$96kInternational$84kHuman Services$67kEducation$39kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$52k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
I Have A Dream Foundation- NY$24,417
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey$10,000
The Valley Hospital Foundation$7,500
Israel Tennis Centers Foundation$6,000
Berkshire Hills Eisenberg Camps$5,375
United States Holocaust Museum$5,000
Jewish Communal Fund$5,000
Jewish Home Foundation$4,600
Friends of the IDF$3,600
Valley Chabad$3,300
WFUV- Fordham University$3,000
City Parks Foundation$2,800
New Museum of Contemporary Art$2,500
Unicef USA$2,500
Park Avenue Armory$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Supplies for Success: $500 → 7%Sunrise Day Camp: $3k → 6%Sunrise Day Camp: $3k → 6%Include NYC: $1k → 17%Include NYC: $1k → 17%Include NYC: $1k → 17%INCLUDEnyc: $1k → 17%Include NYC: $1k → 17%Children's Aid: $3k → 17%Children's Aid: $3k → 17%Children's Aid: $3k → 17%Children's Aid: $3k → 17%Innocence Project: $1k → 17%Innocence Project: $1k → 17%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

MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
MD
AR
TN
NC
DC
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.
$687k · 50 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
44

Total granted

$687k
$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+1%

Still filing today

62%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TV
    THE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +157%
  • IT
    ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +37%
  • CP
    CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $45k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • UF
    UJA Federation of Northen New Jersey
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • IP
    IHAD- Plainfield Project
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • JS
    JEWISH STORY PARTNERS
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
8
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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9
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services
10
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
11
The Contemporary Jewish Museum

The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.

Arts & Culture
12
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj; the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Diabetes Research. 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 104 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/67
Grantees still filing
43/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $130,833 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBergen County YJCC: $36,000 · OtherBergen County YJCCJewish Home Foundation: $33,400 · OtherJewish Home FoundationVALLEY CHABAD INC: $33,000 · OtherVALLEY CHABAD INCUJA Federation of Northen New Jersey: $25,000 · OtherIHAD- Plainfield Project: $25,000 · OtherI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION - NEW YORK: $24,417 · OtherBerkshire Hills Eisenberg Camps: $18,175 · Other+53 more: $176,757 · Other+53 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $240,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHE…+5 more: $25,550 · Philanthropy+5 moreTHE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $67,000 · HealthTHE VALLE…THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $15,000 · HealthTHE FEINS…+8 more: $10,175 · Health+8 moreThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $43,100 · Arts & CultureNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $12,500 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureJEWISH STORY PARTNERS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC: $3,860 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $10,180 · Arts & CultureISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $50,467 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $16,650 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $5,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $3,750 · International+2 more: $3,166 · InternationalCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $45,300 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $100 · Recreation & SportsTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $12,500 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesRESOURCES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY: $4,250 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human Services
Other$502,582Philanthropy$266,050Health$92,175Arts & Culture$80,140International$79,033Recreation & Sports$45,400Human Services$29,250

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $240,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $67,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $50,467 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $45,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $43,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $16,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMy Sisters Place Inc: $15,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $8,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHARLEM STAGE INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH STORY PARTNERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESOURCES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY: $4,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-BORO FOOD PANTRY: $4,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC: $3,860 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $3,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEANINGFUL MOVEMENT INC: $3,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER: $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $2,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICIANS ON CALL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE COLUMNS INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $1,668 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $1,666 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $1,666 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEVEN K AND WINIFRED A GRINSPOON HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH COMMUNITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVLoves LLC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMUSIC WILL INC: $1,250 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION - NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds My Sisters Place Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds New Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds HARLEM STAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH STORY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ ↗
  • Who funds WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
  • Who funds RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY ↗

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 FundNY25.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Martin & Rebecca Eisenberg Foundation · Tides Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Yelp Foundation · Silicon Valley Community 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 Deborah & Ronald Eisenberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Deborah & Ronald Eisenberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Center for Food Action in New Jersey: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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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Find your warmest path to The Deborah & Ronald Eisenberg 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 104 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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