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The So Charitable Trust David Aboodi Trustee
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of THE SO CHARITABLE TRUST DAVID ABOODI TRUSTEE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG ISRAEL OF SCARSDALE | $100,000 |
| LINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE | $14,188 |
| LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $11,500 |
| HOPE & HEROES | $6,400 |
| THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION | $5,400 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS AND IDEALS | $3,600 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $3,600 |
| JEWISH EDUCATIONAL CENTER | $3,000 |
| AHAVAS YISRAEL | $3,000 |
| PROJECT HERITAGE OF GREATER MIAMI - RABBI GRUENSTEIN | $2,016 |
| YOUNG ISRAEL OF BAL HARBOUR | $1,850 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY | $1,800 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY | $1,800 |
| RESCUERS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,800 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROWEST | $1,548 |
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 (FY21–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +5% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k 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
- HHHOPE & HEROES CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND4× · 2021–2025 · $107k · revenue +75%
- TATHEATRE ASPEN2× · 2022–2023 · $67k · revenue +37%
- MLMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- TOTRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (3365 SHS NATHAN'S FAMOUS INC)one grant, 2023 · $241k
- TOTRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (97 SHS BOOKING HOLDINGS INC)one grant, 2021 · $241k
- TOTRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (91 SHS BOOKING HOLDINGS INC)one grant, 2022 · $238k
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 institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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…
The national center for jewish film is a unique, independent nonprofit motion picture archive, distributor, resource center and exhibitor. ncjf's ongoing mission is the collection, preservation and exhibition of films with artistic and…
For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust and the most unlike its peers is Macro Minds 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 44 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) — 2% 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.
93 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. 93 of the 182 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 HOPE & HEROES CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND ↗
- Who funds MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ASPEN ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RERUN INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS ↗
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 · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ojc Fund · Alice G Hanson Family Foundation · Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation · Belz Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc
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 So Charitable Trust David Aboodi Trustee 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New Jersey Symphony Orchestra — 21% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj — 1% of income from government
- Ym-Ywha of Union County — 1% of income from government
- Mesorah Heritage Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Bruce Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
- New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation — 0% 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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