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The Fishoff 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k86 grants · $156k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $94k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KEREN HATZALAS OLAM HATORAH | $75,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MOSDOS GUR | $26,000 |
| HOME SWEET HOME | $25,000 |
| MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $23,500 |
| AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA | $19,000 |
| CHAIM LECHAG | $7,500 |
| CONG TIFERETH SHULEM D'NADVERNE | $7,500 |
| MESAMCHE LEV | $7,000 |
| YESHIVA MEOR YISROEL BNEI BRAK | $6,800 |
| BAIS YAAKOV D'CHASSIDEI GUR | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ADERES BAIS YAAKOV | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AMER FR OF YAD ELIEZER | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of The Fishoff Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
271 repeat relationships — 84 still active in FY2024, 187 since wound down; 6 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k 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
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC4× · 2019–2024 · $73k · revenue +51%
- FOFRIENDS OF HARIM INC2× · 2021–2023 · $60k · revenue +124%
- NCNACHZIK CHAZAK INC6× · 2019–2024 · $59k · revenue +311%
Funded once
- IMICHUD MOSDOT GURone grant, 2019 · $311k
- VHVAAD HATAZALAH FOR UKRAINIAN JEWRY LLCone grant, 2022 · $50k
- FOFRIENDS OF BAIS YISROELone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -48%
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.
Religious Teaching
Provide financial assistance to needy individuals, and to religious, educational, and charitable organizations in us and abroad.
encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.
To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.
Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
Raise funds for charitable purposes
Provides finacial assistance to needy individuals and to religious, charitable organizations
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mesorah Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ani Mamin Foundation. 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 21 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
128 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. 128 of the 574 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GLOBAL CENTER OF GUR INC ↗
- Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HARIM INC ↗
- Who funds NACHZIK CHAZAK INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA KTANA OF PASSAIC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HAR HAZEITIM INC ↗
- Who funds MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BAIS YISROEL ↗
- Who funds Beis Midrash of Queens ↗
- Who funds BAIS YAAKOV MACHON ORA A NJ NON- PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHAIM LECHAG INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA SHAGAS ARYEH 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: The Ojc Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · The Basch Family Foundation · The Sorala Foundation · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · The Jmg Foundation · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jsw 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 Fishoff 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Tiferes Bais Yaakov Inc — 16% of income from government
- Yeshiva Shagas Aryeh Inc — 9% of income from government
- Chai 4EVER Inc — 2% of income from government
- Yeshiva Gedolah Keren Hatorah Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mesorah Heritage Foundation — 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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