· Private foundation
The Edward L Croman Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $370k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF CAMDEN COUNTY | $89,000 |
| CHABAD CENTER FOR JEWISH LEARING & LIVING | $77,000 |
| CHABAD CENTER OF GREATER DAYTON | $77,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BET EL YESHIVA | $64,000 |
| END ANTI-SEMITISM | $63,000 |
| OHR YAAKOV OF AMERICA | $28,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $23,001 |
| CONGREGATION YESODE HATORAH | $23,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| CHABAD OF WEST ORANGE | $18,744 |
| CHABAD OF MONTCLAIR | $13,000 |
| CHABAD CENTER OF GREATER SOMERSET | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 35 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, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $577k 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
- CFCentral Fund of Israel2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue -11%
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2024–2025 · $15k
- COCONGREGATION OHR TORAH INC2× · 2024–2025 · $14k
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF CHABAD OF HEBRON INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -20%
- HOHATZOLAH OF WEST ORANGE & LIVINGSTONone grant, 2024 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
To pursue a greater outreach of knowledge of the Jewish Torah and to further educate the less knowledgeable
Support of religious schools in Israel
ASIF helps its donees by providing information and performing due diligence on charitable organizations in Israel on the donees' behalf.
American Friends of Netivot, Inc. is a charitable organization raising funds to create educational and social activities in the small border town of Netiviot near the Negev Desert in Israel.
Friends of Givat Haviva, Inc. is a New York not-for-profit fundraising organization devoted to the advancement of Jewish-Arab reconciliation, cultural and religious pluralism, democratic values, and peace in the Middle East.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
Funding of organizations qualified under section 501(c) or equivalent as operating for charitable, religious, or educational purposes, or that would so qualify based on the nature of such organization's operations
To award scholarships and grants to students from the United States attending Yeshivas Gedolah Matisyahu in the State of Israel
The organization's primary activity is that of raising funds primarily for distribution to israeli institutions of higher learning. the funds may be distributed to other institutions organized exclusively for religious, charitable and…
Friends of Jerusalem's mission is to provide assistance to the needs and indigent living in Jerusalem and all of Israel.
To raise funds for Yisa Bracha a registered Israeli non-profit and realted organizations.
American friends of Tiferet David-Ostrova Biale's purpose is to support the charitable and communal efforts of the Ostrova Biala Rebbed Avidshlit'a in Israel and in the United States.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tzohar Israel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Friendship Circle Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 49 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BET EL YESHIVA ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHABAD OF HEBRON INC ↗
- Who funds NE EMAN FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds TZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ISRAEL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Teach for Israel 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Edward L Croman Foundation · The Ojc Fund · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Fjc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Edward L Croman Charitable Trust 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.
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