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The Fagin Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YESHIVA RABBI SAMSON RAPHAEL HIRSCH | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT SHA'ALVIM | $4,000 |
| CONGREGATION AISH KODESH | $3,300 |
| CONGREGATION AISH KODESH | $2,100 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEOROT | $1,000 |
| DOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES | $1,000 |
| ACCESSIBILITY ACCELERATOR | $500 |
| LANDER COLLEGE FOR MEN | $500 |
| TALMUD TORAH SIACH YITZCHOK | $500 |
| NYS CHARITIES BUREAU | $100 |
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 (FY17–21, $950) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- BBBNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY5× · 2017–2023 · $240k · revenue +149%
- AFAmerican Friends of Yeshi2× · 2017–2018 · $51k
- YRYESHIVA RABBI SAMSON RAPHAEL HIRSCH4× · 2018–2024 · $50k
Funded once
- YRYeshivah RSR Raphael Hirsch Schoolone grant, 2017 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- JCJamil Commune Fundone grant, 2017 · $10k
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 further jewish education in israel
To support, benefit, and assist yeshivat netiv hadaat- jerusalem
To provide religious education and services to our students in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
Furtherance of jewish education
The purpose of the organization is to provide financial support to jewish religious educational institutions in israel and around the world.
To promote and enhance jewish religious observance in canada
Religious School
To maintain a school for hebrew religious and secular education
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
To operate a school in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith.
Support of religious study and testing for credit recommendations subject to the approval of national ccrs, a program of the board of regents of the university of the state of new york.
To provide religious Jewish education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hebrew Free Loan Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Our Place Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
13 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. 13 of the 40 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 BNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BENJAMIN INC ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Yeshivas Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIABARNARD HILLEL INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESSIBILITY ACCELERATOR INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEOROT YERUSHALAYIM ↗
- Who funds DOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds OUR PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER HEBREW HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY 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 · Cross River Community Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · The Ojc Fund · The Engelberg Family Foundation · Hyman & Ann Arbesfeld Foundation Inc · The Norman and Julia Bobrow Family Foundation · F G Foundation · Caroline & Joseph S Gruss Life Monument Funds Inc · Astar Foundation Inc · The J W Foundation · The Sorala 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 Fagin Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Documentary Educational Resources Inc — 1% of income from government
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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