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The Rita Poretsky Memorial Fund Inc at a glance

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The Rita Poretsky Memorial Fund Inc

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.

$270k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$135kReligion$105kArts & Culture$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kInternational$20kYouth Development$10kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LANIADO DEVELOPMENT FUND$100,000
FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC$20,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC$20,000
COLEL CHABAD$20,000
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$20,000
ZAKA TEL - AVIV$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
JERUSALEM CHESED - CHASDEI HENNY$10,000
TIKVA CHILDREN'S HOME$10,000
EZER MIZION$10,000
CHAIM VCHESSED - CENTER FOR JEWISH VALUES$10,000
FRIENDS OF HATZOLAH ASHDOD DAROM$5,400
NER ISRAEL RABBINICAL COLLEGE$5,000
CHILD LIFE SOCIETY$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MOVING TRADITIONS: $10k → 7%LANIADO DEVELOPMENT FUND: $100k → 14%FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $20k → 17%JERUSALEM CHESED - CHASDEI HENNY: $10k → 20%THE ETZION FOUNDATION: $55k → 7%ZAKA TEL - AVIV: $20k → 11%TIKVA CHILDREN'S HOME: $10k → 16%NER ISRAEL RABBINICAL COLLEGE: $5k → 11%CHAIM VCHESSED - CENTER FOR JEWISH VALUES: $10k → 19%FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $20k → 17%COLEL CHABAD: $20k → 20%CONGREGATION ANSHE CHESSED: $15k → 17%EZER MIZION: $10k → 20%FRIENDS OF HATZOLAH ASHDOD DAROM: $5k → 20%CHILD LIFE SOCIETY: $5k → 20%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
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
2
Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Tal Hashamayim Foundation
Religion
4
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
5
Sherit Isroel
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6
Zichron Chaim Meir Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Yad Yosef Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Zichron Moshe Elihu Tzedoka Fund
Philanthropy
9
Zichroin Rabbeini Meshilem Feiish Ztl Foundation
—
10
Zicron Eliyahu Inc
—
11
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of United Hatzalah Inc; the most unlike its peers is Child Life 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

13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LANIADO DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $100,000 · HealthLANIADO DEVELOPMENT FUND INCFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $20,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INCCHILD LIFE SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · HealthETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA: $55,000 · ReligionETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SIL…JERUSALEM CHESED-CHASDEI HENNY: $10,000 · ReligionJERUSALEM CHESED-CHASDEI HENNYMOVING TRADITIONS: $10,000 · ReligionMOVING TRADITIONSCHAIM V'CHESSED- CENTER FOR JEWISH VALUES INC: $10,000 · ReligionCHAIM V'CHESSED- CENTER FOR JE…FRIENDS OF HATZOLAH ASHDOD DAROM: $5,400 · ReligionFRIENDS OF HATZOLAH ASHDOD DAR…COLEL CHABAD: $20,000 · OtherCOLEL CHABADIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual gr…NER ISRAEL RABBINICAL COLLEGE INC: $5,000 · OtherNER ISRAEL RA…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $20,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF…EZER MIZION: $10,000 · InternationalEZER MIZIO…FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureZaka Tel-Aviv Inc: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTIKVA CORP: $10,000 · Education
Health$125,000Religion$90,400Other$40,000International$30,000Arts & Culture$20,000Philanthropy$20,000Education$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA: $55,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOVING TRADITIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Jewish Communal FundNY16× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Rita Poretsky Memorial Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rita Poretsky Memorial Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Rita Poretsky Memorial Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Rita Poretsky Memorial Fund Inc 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 16 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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