· Private foundation
The Edward L Croman Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 OF GREATER DAYTON | $77,000 |
| CHABAD CENTER FOR JEWISH LEARING & LIVING | $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 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- TITZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +33%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 49 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BET EL YESHIVA ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHABAD OF HEBRON INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds NE EMAN FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds TZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ISRAEL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for Israel 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Edward L Croman Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edward L Croman Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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