· Private foundation
The Jonathan & Esther B Rosenberg 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 $10k23 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $295k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $467k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAIS HAMEDRASH CHASIDEI AMSHINOV | $131,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF AMSHINOVER YESHIVA JERUSALEM | $130,000 |
| CONG TZEDAKA VUCHESED AMSHINOV | $92,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $59,000 |
| PROSPECT PARK YESHIVA | $55,000 |
| YESHIVA OF SPRING VALLEY INC | $45,400 |
| CHESED OF LAKEWOOD | $40,700 |
| BETH HAMEDRASH CHASIDIM | $40,000 |
| MOSDOS PNEI MENACHEM | $30,400 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH INSTITUTIONS | $30,000 |
| CHAIM VEHESED OF RARITAN VALLEY | $24,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SFATH EMETH YESHIVA | $24,000 |
| YESHIVA OHR YEHUDA | $18,000 |
| PILLARS PJS | $12,250 |
| KESER TORAH | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% 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 +77% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 40 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- MRMosdos Rabbainu Nachum Meshadyk3× · 2017–2020 · $328k · revenue +252%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF AMSHINOVER YESHIVA JERUSALEM INC5× · 2017–2021 · $302k · revenue +149%
- CVCHAIM VCHESED OF RARITAN VALLEY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $164k · revenue +74% · 39% of their budget
Funded once
- CACONGREGATION ATERES ROSH INCone grant, 2019 · $157k
- CLCONGREGATION LEV SIMCHAone grant, 2023 · $60k
- TSTHE SEPHARDIC HERITAGE MUSEUM INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -6%
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
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.
To foster, promote and advance theological torah study, charity, and practice of orthodox judaism worldwide.
Education and religious activities and research
To expand torah education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Mosdot Goor and the most unlike its peers is The Friends of the Pittsburgh Institutions. 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 15 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 142 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 Mosdos Rabbainu Nachum Meshadyk ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF AMSHINOVER YESHIVA JERUSALEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH INSTITUTIONS ↗
- Who funds CHAIM VCHESED OF RARITAN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds MOSDOS PNEI MENACHEM INC ↗
- Who funds CHESED OF LAKEWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MOSDOT GOOR ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA OHR YEHUDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEPHARDIC HERITAGE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NACHLAS BAIS YAAKOV ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SFATH EMETH YESHIVA ↗
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 · Jewish Communal Fund · The Sorala Foundation · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · The Fishoff Family Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Chaim Maleh Foundation · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · Donors Fund Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Friends of Mosdot Goor
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 Jonathan & Esther B Rosenberg 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.
- Yeshiva Toras Aron Inc — 8% of income from government
- Yeshiva Orchos Chaim Inc — 5% of income from government
- Yeshiva Ohr Yehuda Inc — 3% of income from government
- Nachlas Bais Yaakov — 2% of income from government
- Bnos Esther Malka Inc — 2% 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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