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The Leah Belle and P David Chernov Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Leah Belle and P David Chernov 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.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$10kEducation$7kReligion$7kRecreation & Sports$4kInternational$3kArts & Culture$1kHuman Services$1kHealth$719Other$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
11
States reached
$33k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Combined Jewish Philanthropies$3,000
Congregation Habonim$540
Jewish National Fund$450
Jackson Hole Jewish Community Cente$378
Hadassah$360
Congregation Ansche Chesed$360
JDC$180
HIAS$162
Museum of Fine Arts$140
Brown University$100
League of Women Voters$100
Doctors without Borders$100
Individual grant recipient$100
American Jewish Committee$100
Individual grant recipient$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $925) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%American Red Cross: $90 → 9%Jewish Social Servies Agency: $100 → 8%Orchard Cove: $700 → 7%American Red Cross: $35 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
OR
WY
IA
PA
RI
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7k · 18 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
53

Total granted

$7k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+23%

Still filing today

67%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $863 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
    3× · 2018–2025 · $380 · revenue +40%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $200 · revenue +20%
  • American Diabetes Association
    2× · 2021–2025 · $190 · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • CR
    Camp Ramah
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • JF
    Jewish Federation of Sarasota
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • TB
    TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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4
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…

International
5
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
6
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
7
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
8
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
9
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
10
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
Access to Advanced Health Institute

Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Disabled American Veterans 27 of Somerville. 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

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 84 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
25/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Camp Ramah: $3,600 · OtherCamp RamahJewish Federation of Sarasota: $2,000 · OtherJewish Federation of SarasotaTEMPLE BETH SHOLOM: $1,739 · OtherTEMPLE BETH SHOLOMCONGREGATION HABONIM: $1,315 · OtherCONGREGATION HABONIMJackson Hole Jewish Community Cente: $1,180 · OtherJackson Hole Jewish Community CenteIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHadassah: $874 · Other+51 more: $5,271 · Other+51 moreCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $7,700 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthr…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $500 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDE…BROWN UNIVERSITY: $6,684 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITYJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $810 · InternationalHIAS INC: $252 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $200 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND: $90 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $72 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $54 · International+2 more: $70 · InternationalOrchard Cove Inc: $700 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $125 · Human ServicesJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $100 · Human ServicesMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $380 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $214 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural History: $139 · Arts & CultureWNET: $60 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $55 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $35 · Arts & CultureAmerican Diabetes Association: $190 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $154 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $135 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $54 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $50 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $50 · Health
Other$16,979Philanthropy$8,200Community Improvement$6,684International$1,548Human Services$925Arts & Culture$883Health$633

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $7,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $6,684 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $810 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOrchard Cove Inc: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $380 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $252 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $214 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $190 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $190 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $172 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $164 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $162 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $154 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $139 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $135 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOPE ACADEMY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $90 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $90 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $72 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $55 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $54 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $54 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORENDA WILDLIFE LAND TRUST INC: $50 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSUMER REPORTS INC: $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Leah Belle and P David Chernov Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Leah Belle and P David Chernov Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Florida Studio Theatre Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 84 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home