· Private foundation
The Dorjac Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
79% of The Dorjac Foundation’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Youngstown Area Jewish Federation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k18 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION | $12,720 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH | $5,175 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $1,200 |
| ISREAL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION | $1,025 |
| LEVIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $700 |
| BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART | $525 |
| YOUNGSTOWN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $250 |
| FLORIDA LENS EYE CLINIC | $200 |
| PELATONIA BIKE CHARITY | $200 |
| CONGREGATION RODEF SHOLOM | $175 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50 |
| AKIVA ACADEMY | $50 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25 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
- ITISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +37%
- BIBUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +75%
- CFCOMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER YOUNGSTOWN3× · 2017–2019 · $200 · revenue +67%
Funded once
- VHVets Helping Heroes Incone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -14%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $1k
- PPALATONIAone grant, 2017 · $200
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.
Education opportunity for the jewish community
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To minister physically and spiritually to the jewish people.
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To strengthen jewish life and identity in our community, provide for jewish people in need and promote support for israel.
Enriching jewish life in northwest indiana, in israel and around the world through service, programming, advocacy and fundraising.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit and the most unlike its peers is Vets Helping Heroes Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 30 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 YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds Vets Helping Heroes Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER YOUNGSTOWN ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
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: Fibushendricks Family Foundation · Donald M & Barbara L Werner Family Foundation · Frances Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46496008 · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Dorjac 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, a single department, or state — 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.