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The Ronald Domb Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Ronald Domb Foundation 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.

$159k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$1.6MArts & Culture$184kInternational$130kYouth Development$100kEducation$56kFood & Nutrition$31kHealth$14kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
$3,600
Median grant
5
States reached
$483k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$28,200
EZRAT ISRAEL$20,000
SHINE FOUNDATION$11,800
AISH HACHAIM$10,000
AHI EZER EARLY CHILDHOOD CORP$10,000
NJOP$9,000
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY$7,000
Individual grant recipient$6,342
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE NEW JERSEY INC$5,400
JOSEPH KUSHNER HEBREW ACADEMY$5,000
RISING HEROES INC$5,000
FRIENDS OF MIDRESHET ESHEL$5,000
HOLLYWOOD TORAH CENTER$5,000
CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF THE POCONOS$4,960
CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF ULSTER COUNTY$4,800
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $320 → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $880 → 17%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

NY
IN
PA
NJ
RI
AZ
DC
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 43 repeat orgs$443k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
36

Total granted

$1.9M
$380k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+9%

Still filing today

47%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionInternationalArts & CultureEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • ZO
    ZION ORPHANAGE INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $113k · revenue +43%
  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    8× · 2017–2024 · $82k · revenue +161%
  • OT
    Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel
    6× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • CT
    CONGREGATION TIFERETH ISRAEL
    one grant, 2017 · $138k
  • YO
    YBH OF PASSAIC HILLEL
    one grant, 2018 · $75k
  • KB
    KHAL BAIS MEDRASH ZICHRON YAAKOV
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Sherit Isroel
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3
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
4
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
5
University of Judaism Foundation
—
6
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
7
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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8
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
9
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
10
American Friends of Zvi Latzadik Dba Breslov Research Institute Jerusalem

To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.

International
11
American Friends of Neveh Zion

To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel

Religion
12
Bais Medrash Mayan Hatorah

To provide religious education and services to our students in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Society for Yad Vashem Inc; the most unlike its peers is Susie's Senior Dogs 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

46 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. 46 of the 91 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
28/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $560,180 · OtherIndividual grant recipientZICHRON YAAKOV INSTITUTE: $180,000 · OtherZICHRON YAAKOV INSTITUTECONGREGATION TIFERETH ISRAEL: $138,360 · OtherCONGREGATION TIFERETH ISRAELTHE EDMOND J SAFRA SYNAGOGUE INC: $129,840 · OtherTHE EDMOND J SAFRA SYNAGOGUE INCYESHIVA KETANA: $125,000 · OtherYESHIVA KETANAYBH OF PASSAIC HILLEL: $75,000 · Other+54 more: $522,567 · Other+54 moreNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN: $205,000 · ReligionNATIONAL JEWI…Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $34,600 · ReligionOhr Torah Sto…The Haftorahman Group Inc: $18,000 · ReligionThe Haftorahm…+5 more: $21,260 · Religion+5 moreWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $81,755 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $66,220 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $2,525 · Arts & CultureZION ORPHANAGE INC: $113,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF GENESIS JERUSALEM INC: $18,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC: $5,000 · International+4 more: $5,100 · InternationalRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC: $27,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $100 · Recreation & SportsYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $14,000 · EducationFriends of Rachashei Lev Whispers of The Heart: $5,000 · EducationMENACHEM MENDEL ACADEMY: $5,000 · EducationGolda Och Academy: $1,180 · Education+2 more: $820 · EducationPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $7,000 · PhilanthropyISRAEL COMMUNITY SUPPORT CENTERS INC: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$1,730,947Religion$278,860Arts & Culture$170,500International$141,100Recreation & Sports$27,600Education$26,000Philanthropy$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN: $205,000 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetZION ORPHANAGE INC: $113,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $81,755 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $66,220 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $34,600 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC: $27,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF GENESIS JERUSALEM INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRITE OF SUMMER INC: $11,800 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEFESH YEHUDIE INC: $6,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFriendship Circle New Jersey Inc: $5,580 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRISING HEROES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of Rachashei Lev Whispers of The Heart: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR FURTHERANCE OF JEWISH EDUCATION AND AFFILLIATES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMENACHEM MENDEL ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBADASS ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $4,180 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMIKVAH CHANA INC: $2,080 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINNOVATION AFRICA: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAM YISRAEL FOUNDATION INC: $1,800 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGolda Och Academy: $1,180 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $880 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONDOUT-ESOPUS LAND CONSERVANC: $680 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMOHONK PRESERVE INC: $640 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA: $540 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL COMMUNITY SUPPORT CENTERS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSusie's Senior Dogs Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUR PLACE INC: $360 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $320 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTONE RIDGE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $280 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarbletown First Aid Unit Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATED BETH RIVKA SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILD BIRD FUND INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUpper East Side Hatzolah Inc: $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.

  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN ↗
  • Who funds ZION ORPHANAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
  • Who funds RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds The Haftorahman Group Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GENESIS JERUSALEM INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RITE OF SUMMER INC ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEFESH YEHUDIE INC ↗

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 FundFjcHuberfeld Family Foun…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Community Foun…The Alan and Elisa Pi…The Rapoport Family F…The Margaret and Dani…Nash Charity Foundati…Greater Miami Jewish …Jewish Community Foun…The Ojc Fund
Jewish Communal FundNY32.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · Huberfeld Family Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Alan and Elisa Pines Family Foundation Inc · The Rapoport Family Foundation Inc · The Margaret and Daniel Loeb Foundation · Nash Charity Foundation Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · The Ojc 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 Ronald Domb Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ronald Domb Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Rabbinical College of America: 5% of income from government
  • Golda Och Academy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
10report 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 Ronald Domb Foundation 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 91 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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