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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.

$168k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$808kHealth$355kPhilanthropy$276kReligion$261kArts & Culture$178kInternational$54kCivil Rights$23kHuman Services$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$360
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$3,600
INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS AND IDEALS$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
RESCUERS WITHOUT BORDERS$1,800
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY$1,800
JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROWEST$1,548
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $4k → 6%KEREN ZICHRON HENYA: $2k → 11%YAD CHAYA: $2k → 13%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $4k → 6%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $4k → 6%BIKUR CHOLIM OF MIAMI BEACH: $180 → 15%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

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
NM
TN
NC
DC
GA
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.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$490k · 67 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
99

Total granted

$490k
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
0%

Still filing today

52%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationReligionInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • HH
    HOPE & HEROES CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND
    4× · 2021–2025 · $107k · revenue +75%
  • TA
    THEATRE ASPEN
    2× · 2022–2023 · $67k · revenue +37%
  • ML
    MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (3365 SHS NATHAN'S FAMOUS INC)
    one grant, 2023 · $241k
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (97 SHS BOOKING HOLDINGS INC)
    one grant, 2021 · $241k
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (91 SHS BOOKING HOLDINGS INC)
    one grant, 2022 · $238k
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
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

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…

Arts & Culture
5
University of Judaism Foundation
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6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
7
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
8
National Center for Jewish Filminc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

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…

Religion
10
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
11
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
12
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust; 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.
04the grantee network

93 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. 93 of the 182 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/93
Grantees still filing
49/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (3365 SHS NATHAN'S FAMOUS INC): $241,398 · OtherTRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (3365 SHS NATHAN'S FAMOUS INC)TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (97 SHS BOOKING HOLDINGS INC): $240,737 · OtherTRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (97 SHS BOOKING HOLDINGS INC)TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (91 SHS BOOKING HOLDINGS INC): $238,378 · OtherTRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (91 SHS BOOKING HOLDINGS INC)FIDELITY CHARITABLE - ABOODI KIDS FUND: $218,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE - ABOODI KIDS FUNDNATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAEL: $100,000 · OtherNATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAELCITY OF HOPE HEMATOLOGY RESEARCH FUND: $55,800 · Other+112 more: $480,331 · Other+112 moreHOPE & HEROES CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND: $107,008 · HealthHOPE & HEROES …MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $90,000 · HealthMONTEFIORE MED…LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $46,450 · HealthLYMPHOMA RESEA…+5 more: $15,980 · Health+5 moreTHEATRE ASPEN: $66,570 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $10,224 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS: $7,950 · Arts & CultureBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+25 more: $8,009 · Arts & CultureASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $16,300 · PhilanthropyAMERICA GIVES INC: $11,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $3,348 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,800 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,360 · PhilanthropyMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $23,400 · Human ServicesCHALLENGE ASPEN: $3,900 · Human ServicesYAD CHAYA INC: $1,800 · Human ServicesKEREN ZICHRON HENYA INC: $1,800 · Human Services+1 more: $180 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $18,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $5,400 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $1,800 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC: $960 · International+4 more: $1,188 · InternationalINSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC: $5,400 · ReligionNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN: $3,096 · ReligionHatzalah Yehuda and Shomron Inc: $1,800 · ReligionCAMP HASC INC: $1,080 · ReligionWEST POINT JEWISH CHAPEL FUND: $846 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE JERUSALEM GREAT SYNAGOGUE INC: $540 · Religion+2 more: $468 · Religion
Other$1,574,644Health$259,438Arts & Culture$97,753Philanthropy$33,808Human Services$31,080International$27,348Religion$13,230

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 budgetHOPE & HEROES CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND: $107,008 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $90,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE ASPEN: $66,570 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $46,450 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $23,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $23,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $16,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $10,324 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $10,224 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRERUN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS: $7,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ALS INC: $5,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC: $5,400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $5,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $4,608 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGE ASPEN: $3,900 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDEMENTIA SOCIETY INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $3,348 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN: $3,096 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT HAKOTEL INC: $2,016 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYAD CHAYA INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEREN ZICHRON HENYA INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYAD HENNA SARA INC DBA AISHEL: $1,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAN ON ME BREAST CANCER NETWORK IN: $1,800 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE BUDDY PROGRAM INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $1,368 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $1,080 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP HASC INC: $1,080 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMACRO MINDS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW RENAISSANCE BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC: $960 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST POINT JEWISH CHAPEL FUND: $846 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $756 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPERFECT PET RESCUE: $720 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $684 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $540 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $540 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHR AVROHOM AND MOSHE INC: $540 over 1y, 0.2% 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 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 ↗

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 FundJewish Federation of …Jewish Community Foun…The Ojc FundAlice G Hanson Family…Gertrude and Morris B…Belz FoundationEj Grassmann TrustJewish Community Foun…Associated Jewish Cha…The Hyde and Watson F…Combined Jewish Phila…
Jewish Communal FundNY32.9× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 So Charitable Trust David Aboodi Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The So Charitable Trust David Aboodi Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 So Charitable Trust David Aboodi Trustee 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 182 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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