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The Morris & Sylvia Trachten Family 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k67 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $227k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $132k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC | $82,000 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL | $26,600 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL | $18,000 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL | $18,000 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL | $14,400 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 23% of The Morris & Sylvia Trachten Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
90 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 15 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- JAJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +147%
- BBBNai Brith Hillel Foundation at the University of Connecticut8× · 2017–2024 · $186k · revenue +67% · 27% of their budget
- ACAMIT CHILDREN INC5× · 2017–2021 · $121k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- TJTHE JEWISH AGENCY - AMERICAN SECTION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue +26%
- HTHadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +617%
- BTBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +43%
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 agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
To help build a more just society by creating model programs for disadvantaged populations. The activities focus primarily on helping Israel overcome the challenges facing five groups (cont. on sched O):
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.
The principal function of uia is to administer and supervise the funds allocated for philanthropic purposes related to immigration and absorption of humanitarian migrants to israel and jewish identity programs in israel and the former…
Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
Uja-federation of new york (uja) cares for jews everywhere and new yorkers of all backgrounds, responds to crises close to home and far away, and shapes the jewish future. through strategic grantmaking, uja provides funding and resources…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Forward Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Laguna Beach Ocean Lifeguard Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
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 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
135 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. 135 of the 176 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 AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds BNai Brith Hillel Foundation at the University of Connecticut ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON ETHIOPIAN JEWRY INC ↗
- Who funds AMIT CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH AGENCY - AMERICAN SECTION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW HAV ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JORDAN RIVER VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AISH GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds EZRA ACADEMY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER JEWISH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds JOIN ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ROZANA USA INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · JEWISHColorado · Jewish Community Foundation of Orange County · Gary and Evelyn Trachten Family Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Samueli Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · The Chotin Family Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven Inc · Farmers & Merchants Bank 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 Morris & Sylvia Trachten Family 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.
- United Way of Connecticut Inc — 100% of income from government
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven Inc — 1% 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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