· Private foundation
The Jake Aronov Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $196k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEKUSHARIM INC | $60,000 |
| CHABAD UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $45,000 |
| YESHIVA OHR YISRAEL INC | $37,800 |
| ATLANTA SCHOLARS KOLLELL | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEOROT YERUSHALAYIM | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,700 |
| NER ISRAEL RABBINICAL COLLEGE | $19,200 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MOSDOS BOSTON IN ISRAEL INC | $9,600 |
| CHABAD INTOWN | $9,600 |
| JEWISH HERITAGE MOVEMENT | $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 US giving — 79% of grant dollars ($7.6M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 21% that went abroad ($2.0M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of your 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
Beyond the US — 21% of all-years giving ($2.0M)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k 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
- JUJewish Unity International Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +11%
- TTTEMIMA THE RICHARD AND JEAN KATZ HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC2× · 2022–2023 · $160k · revenue +10%
- QOQUALITY OF LIFE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $72k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- TDTORAS DOVID COMMUNITY KOLLELone grant, 2024 · $500k
- AGAISH GLOBAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $360k · revenue +32%
- TFTHE FOUNDATION OF OPTIMA HEALTHone grant, 2018 · $263k
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
Religious School
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
Support of religious schools in Israel
Furtherance of jewish education
Provide support to further jewish education
Support for study of torah and chasiddus in ramat shilo, israel
Inspire and assist each student in his quest to nurture a personal relationship with hashem, develop and refine his character, immerse himself in serious torah scholarship and attain the knowledge and skills necessary to be an articulate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Jewish Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pirchei of Atlanta. 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 49 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 Jewish Unity International Inc ↗
- Who funds AISH GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEMIMA THE RICHARD AND JEAN KATZ HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds ALIYOS SHLOMO ↗
- Who funds QUALITY OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds PIRCHEI OF ATLANTA ↗
- Who funds CMCH Elementary INC ↗
- Who funds JUST ONE LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA JEWISH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MOSDOS VERETZKY ↗
- Who funds YAD L YAD CHARITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MOSDOS BOSTON IN ISRAEL 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 Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · The Joyce and Ramie Tritt Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Amazonsmile 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 Jake Aronov Charitable 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.
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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