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The Liebish and Sarah Levin Hecht Charitable Trust at a glance

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The Liebish and Sarah Levin Hecht Charitable Trust

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.

$18k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$16kEducation$2kPhilanthropy$2kHuman Services$860Health$720International$640Environment$360Crime & Legal$180Other$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$280
Median grant
3
States reached
$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Keren Olam HaTorah$5,000
American Friends of Yeshiva Ohr Elc$2,560
Chasdei Lev$1,000
Kamenitz$1,000
CCK Charity Foundation$900
Computer Services for the Blind$500
Toras Chesed$468
American Friends of Yad Eliezer$360
Va'ad Harabbanim$360
Chayim Aruchim$360
Ohr Halacha Inc$360
Kollel America$360
Keren Hashviis$360
American Friends of Hidabroot$360
Yeshiva Tifereth Torah Inc$360
02The need
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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 (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Computer Services for the Blind: $500 → 20%Chayim Aruchim: $360 → 20%Lev Rochel Bikur Cholim of Lkwd: $180 → 11%American Friends of Yad Eliezer: $360 → 11%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.
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 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
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
2
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
3
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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4
Friends of Yeshiva Tehilas Shlomo Inc

Provide support to further jewish education

Philanthropy
5
American Friends of Shviti Hashem Inc

To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.

Religion
6
Friends of Zichron Meir Inc Friends of Zichron Meir

To support talmud torah zichron meir, a school in israel

Philanthropy
7
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.

Education
8
Sherit Isroel
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9
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
10
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
11
Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc

Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students

Education
12
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vaad Harabbanim L'inyanei Tzeduka Inc; the most unlike its peers is Talmudical Academy. 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

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 41 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
3/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KEREN OLAM HATORAH INC: $5,000 · OtherKEREN OLAM HATORAH INCAmerican Friends of Yeshiva Ohr Elc: $2,560 · OtherAmerican Friends of Yeshiva Ohr ElcCCK Charity Foundation: $1,260 · OtherCCK Charity FoundationKamenitz: $1,000 · OtherKamenitzChasdei Lev: $1,000 · OtherChasdei LevIndividual grant recipient: $860 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+19 more: $4,408 · Other+19 moreTALMUDICAL ACADEMY: $1,000 · ReligionTALMUDICAL…TORAS CHESED INC: $468 · ReligionTORAS CHES…VAAD HARABBANIM L'INYANEI TZEDUKA INC: $360 · ReligionVAAD HARAB…KEREN HASHVIIS INC: $360 · ReligionKEREN HASH…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR: $100 · ReligionFRIENDS OF AHAVATH SHALOM INC: $1,720 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF…SHUVU RETURN INC: $360 · PhilanthropySHUVU RETU…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MESHI INC: $180 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN F…FRIENDS OF YESHIVA OHR ELCHONON INC: $2,080 · EducationFRIENDS O…COMPUTER SERVICES FOR THE BLIND INC: $500 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $360 · Human ServicesCHAYIM ARUCHIM INC: $360 · Human ServicesBIKUR CHOLIM OF LAKEWOOD INC: $180 · Human ServicesCHAI LIFELINE INC: $180 · HealthCHESED OF LAKEWOOD INC: $180 · HealthLAKEWOOD SHOMRIM INC: $180 · Crime & Legal
Other$16,088Religion$2,288Philanthropy$2,260Education$2,080Human Services$1,400Health$360Crime & Legal$180

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF YESHIVA OHR ELCHONON INC: $2,080 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF AHAVATH SHALOM INC: $1,720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTALMUDICAL ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPUTER SERVICES FOR THE BLIND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTORAS CHESED INC: $468 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVAAD HARABBANIM L'INYANEI TZEDUKA INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA TIFERES TORAH INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN HASHVIIS INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHUVU RETURN INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAYIM ARUCHIM INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEYLIM LEV LACHIM: $252 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MESHI INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM OF LAKEWOOD INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKEWOOD SHOMRIM INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESED OF LAKEWOOD INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR: $100 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.

The Ojc FundJewish Communal FundAssociated Jewish Cha…Zichron Chaim Charity…The Jmg FoundationDonors Fund IncJack Adjmi Family Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Ganger Foundation…Zichron Btz Tzedakah …The Basch Family Foun…The Zev and Susan Mun…
The Ojc FundNY24.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Jmg Foundation · Donors Fund Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ganger Foundation Inc · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · The Basch Family Foundation · The Zev and Susan Munk Family 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 Liebish and Sarah Levin Hecht Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Liebish and Sarah Levin Hecht Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Yeshiva Tiferes Torah Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Liebish and Sarah Levin Hecht Charitable Trust 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 41 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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