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The Immerman Foundation

Further the charitable, educational and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland ("federation").

$283k
Granted FY2022
12
Grants FY2022
11
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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51% of The Immerman Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Cleveland, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Immerman Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $280k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

9
’18
11
’19
11
’20
11
’21
11
’22
13
’23
12
’24
12
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2022
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 11
FY2018 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
5
Total assets, FY2022
$7.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations The Immerman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22
EducationReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202211$230k0%
FY202111$319k0%
FY202011$268k18%
FY201911$234k18%
FY20189$182kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$881kInternational$765kReligion$675kEducation$332kRecreation & Sports$164kPublic Benefit$110kYouth Development$60kCivil Rights$36kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Immerman Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $360,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNational Ramah Commission Inc: $334,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetJewish Education Center of Cleveland: $220,320 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetHudson Institute Inc: $160,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetResearch - Eval - Promoting Org Respon & Transparency - Report - Inc: $130,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetJewish Institute for National Security of America: $120,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFuchs Mizrachi Schools: $110,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of Matan Inc: $98,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetHuman Rights Voices: $90,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetSegula: $80,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetMichigan B'Nai B'Rith Hillel Foundation Inc: $45,010 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetIsrael on Campus Coalition Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCleveland Community Mikvah Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetJewish Community Centers Association of North America: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Jewish Federation of ClevelandOH15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The Immerman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Immerman Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Immerman Foundation

How much does The Immerman Foundation give?
The Immerman Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $283,239 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
What does The Immerman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (29%), International (25%), Religion (22%).
Who are The Immerman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ($360k), National Ramah Commission Inc ($334k), Jewish Education Center of Cleveland ($220k).
Does The Immerman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Immerman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Cleveland, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The Immerman Foundation based?
The Immerman Foundation is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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