· Private foundation
The Grove 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.
The 162 grants below total $499,964 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $784,274 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $284,310 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k159 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
- $250k+1 grant · $385k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Donors' Fund | $385,000 |
| Tzur Foundation | $22,980 |
| UTA | $19,620 |
| Tomchei Shabbos D' Lakewood | $4,500 |
| Yeshiva Ketana of Lakewood | $3,000 |
| Bais Tova Elementary School | $3,000 |
| Shmiras Hasdorim Inc. | $2,230 |
| Jacob Pearlman Memorial Foundation | $2,000 |
| Oraysa | $1,800 |
| Bais Medrash Of Baltimore | $1,800 |
| Lakewood Cheder School | $1,680 |
| Agudath Israel Of America | $1,540 |
| Amudim | $1,500 |
| P.E.F | $1,420 |
| Congregation Khal Zichron Binyomin | $1,200 |
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 +95% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
158 repeat relationships — 90 still active in FY2023, 68 since wound down; 72 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- MIMAYSHARIM INC3× · 2018–2021 · $21k · revenue +139%
- TFTZUR FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +149%
- PBPEARL BLAU LEARNING CENTER INC3× · 2018–2021 · $3k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- AFAmerican Fr. of Tiferes Moshe Betzalelone grant, 2020 · $80k
- AFAmerican Friends f Tiferet Moshe Betzalelone grant, 2021 · $50k
- AFAmerican Friends Of Bnos Yehudisone grant, 2022 · $11k
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
Support of religious schools in Israel
Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.
Award grants to promote torah study
Religious School
We make grants to support orthodox jewish education.
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
To promote the study of torah
Organization raises funds which are disbursed to religious schools of higher education and talmudic research
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Yeshiva Meah Shearim Inc and the most unlike its peers is Child Life Society 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 20 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 466 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.
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 · Jewish Communal Fund · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Donors Fund Inc · The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Jmg Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Zichron Btz Tzedakah 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.
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