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The Sam and Rachel Boymel Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Sam and Rachel Boymel Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$455k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$860kInternational$233kReligion$158kEducation$130kPhilanthropy$120kFood & Nutrition$40kHealth$30kRecreation & Sports$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $238k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$100,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI$50,000
YAVNEH DAY SCHOOL$30,000
THE ARK$25,000
ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$25,000
MAZON$20,000
FREESTORE FOODBANK$20,000
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE$17,500
OSU CHABAD HOUSE$15,700
TRIBE OF NOVA FOUNDATION$15,000
ENOSH THE ISRAELI MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION$10,000
DR STANLEY & PEARL GOODMAN JFS OF BROWARD COUNTY$10,000
ADATH ISRAEL$10,000
BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ZAKA SEARCH AND RESCUE: $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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 17 repeat orgs$509k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
6

Total granted

$1.0M
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-13%
+2%

Still filing today

35%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $398k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
InternationalReligionArts & CulturePhilanthropyFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • AS
    AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $700k · revenue -84%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2019–2024 · $150k
  • CJ
    Chabad Jewish Center
    4× · 2017–2024 · $37k

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -51%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +2%
  • IP
    ISRAEL PARASPORT CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $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.

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Sherit Isroel
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2
University of Judaism Foundation
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3
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc
Youth Development
5
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
6
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
7
Us Israel Education Fund Inc
—
8
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Ziv Israel Association
—
11
American Friends of Neveh Zion

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

Religion
12
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Israel Education Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ohr on Campus 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

20 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. 20 of the 44 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
8/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $700,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATIChabad Jewish Center: $36,800 · OtherChabad Jewish CenterYAVNEH DAY SCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherYAVNEH DAY SCHOOLISRAEL PARASPORT CENTER: $25,257 · OtherILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $25,000 · OtherTHE ARK: $25,000 · OtherMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $20,000 · Other+18 more: $148,500 · Other+18 moreAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $50,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIEND…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $30,257 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE …FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC: $25,257 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ISRA…EZER MIZION: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 · International+1 more: $5,000 · InternationalJewish Federation of Cincinnati: $100,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $12,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyOhr on Campus Inc: $17,500 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $17,500 · ReligionChabad of Columbus Inc: $15,700 · ReligionFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionBERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationIsrael Magen Fund Inc: $5,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$710,000Other$510,557International$230,514Philanthropy$114,500Religion$50,700Food & Nutrition$20,000Education$10,000Human Services$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $700,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Federation of Cincinnati: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $30,257 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC: $25,257 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOhr on Campus Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChabad of Columbus Inc: $15,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOILLE SAN DIEGO HEBREW DAY SCHOOL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEZER MIZION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Partisan Education Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIsrael Magen Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYAHAD- IN UNUM MID-AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJewish Education for Every Person: $2,000 over 2y, 1.3% 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 FundCombined Jewish Phila…Boymel Family Foundat…Greater Miami Jewish …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Network for GoodAmerican Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…
Jewish Communal FundNY16.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boymel Family Foundation · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Sam and Rachel Boymel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sam and Rachel Boymel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%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
    0get 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 · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Sam and Rachel Boymel Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Sam and Rachel Boymel Foundation 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 44 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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