· Private foundation
The Lester G Abeloff Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k29 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $328k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $610k
- $250k+1 grant · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA | $450,000 |
| JEWISH RESOURCE CENTER OF THE POCONOS | $190,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY EAST STROUDSBURG PA CORPS | $150,000 |
| DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION SERVICES OF MONROE COUNTY INC | $100,000 |
| YESHIVA BETH MOSHE | $70,000 |
| BETH SHALOM ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL OF THE POCONOS | $50,000 |
| CONGREGATION B'NAI HARIM | $30,000 |
| JEWISH FELLOWSHIP OF HEMLOCK FARMS | $30,000 |
| MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $27,500 |
| LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA | $20,000 |
| POCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN | $20,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF LEHIGH VALLEY | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +21% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 17 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $297k 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
- JRJEWISH RESOURCE CENTER OF THE POCONOS9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +330% · 90% of their budget
- DEDEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION SERVICES OF MONROE COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $735k · revenue +64%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- LVLEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK (POCONO FOUNDATION)one grant, 2023 · $25k
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ALLENTOWNone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -9%
- CMCHAI MITZVAH INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +49%
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.
The Jewish Community Council of Erie is a community-based organization serving individuals and families in the Erie area with a wide range of social and educational services, as well as capacity-building support to other community-based…
Camp ramah's mission is to create a nurturing, safe, fun-filled, vibrant jewish community that inspires the education, social, cultural, moral, physical, and emotional growth of campers and staff, fostering life-long jewish identity. ramah…
Public lending library
Provide emergency ambulance services
By leading coordinated action, montco anti-hunger network strengthens the food security safety net system in montgomery county, pa, working to end hunger in montgomery county.
Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…
To cultivate a vibrant, healthy jewish community, inspire greater jewish identity, and promote deeper understanding and stronger connections between jews and non-jews in reading/berks county.
The jewish federation of middlesex and monmouth counties, a nj non-profit corporation, also known as the jewish federation in the heart of new jersey, brings together people, partners and resources to fulfill the most important needs and…
Psrc is the go-to resource where aging adults and their families find support, guidance, educational and social programs to help navigate life transitions and continue to be active, healty and engaged in the community.
Care and shelter for the elderly
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Center of Scranton and the most unlike its peers is Salvation Army East Stroudsburg Corps. 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 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 107 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 FEDERATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RESOURCE CENTER OF THE POCONOS ↗
- Who funds SALVATION ARMY EAST STROUDSBURG CORPS ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION SERVICES OF MONROE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds POCONO MOUNTAINS UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ELAN SKILLED NURSING AND REHAB ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds POCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL RECREATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE POCONOS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds POCONO HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIGHTS FOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds POCONO AREA TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds QUIET VALLEY LIVING HISTORICAL FARM ↗
- Who funds EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MONROE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Pleasant Valley Ecumenical Network ↗
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: Essa Bank & Trust Foundation · R Dale & Frances M Hughes Fdn 47f100011 · Allone Charities · Mount Airy Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · The Weiler Family Foundation Inc · Ppl Foundation · Hughes Foundation Inc · Pocono Mountains United Way · The Ann and Joseph Farda Foundation · Todd and Shari Nelson Family Fdn Inc · Robert H Spitz 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 Lester G Abeloff 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.
- Rabbinical College of America — 5% 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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