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The Julius and Ann Cahn Memorial 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.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

International$49kReligion$37kArts & Culture$28kPhilanthropy$28kHuman Services$8kCommunity Improvement$5kCivil Rights$3kEducation$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACCURACY IN MEDIA$13,600
Individual grant recipient$10,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$5,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROW$5,000
BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FUND$5,000
WIDOW CHILDRENS FUND OF THE PBA$3,600
TUNNELS TO TOWERS$1,800
MFJC$413
US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$100
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JESPY HOUSE: $1k → 16%JESPY HOUSE: $360 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$124k · 12 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
34

Total granted

$124k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+110%

Still filing today

50%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    5× · 2018–2022 · $20k · revenue +41%
  • BT
    BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    3× · 2022–2024 · $11k · revenue +28%
  • CF
    COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $9k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • JD
    JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE - UKRA
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
2
The Jerusalem Connection
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

4
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
5
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
6
Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc

Jewish national fund gives all generations of jews a unique voice in building a prosperous future for the land of israel and its people.

International
7
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
8
Better Future for Israel

To strengthen israel's future in these areas: 1)providing new immigrants with assistance in a few key areas: representing them as they navigate government ministries and assisting them with their challenges as new immigrants to israel.…

Philanthropy
9
National Center for Jewish Filminc

The national center for jewish film is a unique, independent nonprofit motion picture archive, distributor, resource center and exhibitor. ncjf's ongoing mission is the collection, preservation and exhibition of films with artistic and…

Arts & Culture
10
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
11
Wisdom Without Walls Inc

Wisdom without walls is a nonprofit, nondenominational, online learning community that hosts intimate conversations with the most prominent voices in contemporary jewish thought, fostering discussions without ideological barriers.

Religion
12
New Israel Fund

The new israel fund (nif) helps israel live up to its founders' vision of a society that ensures complete equality to all its inhabitants. our aim is to advance liberal democracy, including freedom of speech and minority rights, and to…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj and the most unlike its peers is National Audubon 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.

04the grantee network

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 56 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MT FREEDOM JEWISH CENTER — $29,505 · OtherMT FREEDOM JEWISH CENTERACRONYM — $22,000 · OtherACRONYMIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCENTAL FUND OF ISRAEL — $9,300 · OtherCENTAL FUND OF ISRAELIndividual grant recipient — $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMT FREEDOM JERWISH CENTER — $7,450 · OtherMT FREEDOM JERWISH CENTERJEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA — $6,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FUND — $5,000 · OtherJOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE - UKRA — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · Other+32 more — $29,993 · Other+32 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $19,500 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISR…COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC — $9,300 · InternationalCOMMITTEE FOR ACCU…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL …+2 more — $1,360 · InternationalACCURACY IN MEDIA INC — $13,600 · Arts & CultureACCURACY I…HONESTREPORTINGCOM INC — $4,800 · Arts & CultureHONESTREPO…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $1,100 · Arts & CultureThe United…BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $11,400 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $5,000 · PhilanthropyFREEDOM CENTER INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesJESPY HOUSE INC — $1,360 · Human ServicesSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,800 · EducationNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $200 · Environment
Other$136,748International$35,160Arts & Culture$19,500Philanthropy$16,400Human Services$3,860Education$1,800Environment$200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $19,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetACCURACY IN MEDIA INC — $13,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $11,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC — $9,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONESTREPORTINGCOM INC — $4,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJESPY HOUSE INC — $1,360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
  • Who funds ACCURACY IN MEDIA INC
  • Who funds BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
  • Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HONESTREPORTINGCOM INC
  • Who funds FREEDOM CENTER INC
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JESPY HOUSE INC
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel
  • Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER
  • Who funds BREAKING THE CHAIN THROUGH EDUCATION INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Julius and Ann Cahn Memorial 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Jespy House Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to The Julius and Ann Cahn Memorial Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Julius and Ann Cahn Memorial 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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