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The Weindel Foundation

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.

$183k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$512kFood & Nutrition$258kInternational$250kPhilanthropy$84kHuman Services$46kAnimals$7kEducation$5kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $145k
$3,275
Median grant
5
States reached
$709k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC$24,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA KODSHIM$18,200
NCSY$18,000
Individual grant recipient$15,690
BINYAN YERUSHALAYIM$14,900
YESHIVA TIFERES MOSHE$12,100
FRIENDS OF SEEACH SODE$12,000
YAD EZRA VESHULAMIT$10,000
TORAH COMMUNITY FUND$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGDAL OHR$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TOMER DEVORAH$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OHR YERUSHALAYIM$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEMAN ACHAI$3,800
MIKVAH YISROEL$3,600
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAIS TEFILLA$3,275
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 (FY17–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHER YEHUDI: $2k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHER YEHUDI: $2k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHER YEHUDI: $2k → 6%HAKSHIVA: $1k → 17%HAKSHIVA: $1k → 17%HAKSHIVA: $600 → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $4k → 11%HAKSHIVA: $600 → 17%KEREN HATZEDKA: $3k → 11%HAKSHIVA: $600 → 17%KEREN HATZEDKA: $3k → 11%JOIN ISRAEL: $1k → 6%AVIGDOR HELPING HAND: $360 → 13%AVIGDORS HELPING HAND: $360 → 13%AVIGDOR HELPING HAND: $360 → 13%AVIGDOR HELPING HAND: $360 → 13%AVIGDOR HELPING HAND: $360 → 13%AVIGDOR HELPING HAND: $360 → 13%MATAN BSESER BAMBI: $2k → 20%MATAN BSESER BAMBI: $2k → 20%MATAN BSESER BAMBI: $2k → 20%MATAN BSESER BAMBI: $2k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $500 → 20%BONEI OLAM: $250 → 20%MATAN BSESER BAMBI: $180 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
NJ
CA
MD
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 64 repeat orgs$179k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

64 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
77

Total granted

$1.2M
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+35%

Still filing today

39%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
ReligionInternationalHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • IF
    ISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC CO MR AVI SCHOEMANN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +208%
  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    7× · 2018–2024 · $104k · revenue +145%
  • TC
    TORAH COMMUNITY FUND INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANATEVKA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +87%
  • VH
    VAAD HATZALAH FOR UKRAINIAN JEWS
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
3
Sherit Isroel
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4
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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5
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
6
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
7
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
8
American Friends of Yeshivat Nachalat Yossef

The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.

Religion
9
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
10
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
11
American Friends of Keshet Yehuda Nfp

religious and educational program for post high school youth

Philanthropy
12
American Friends of Amaleh Shel Torah Inc

None

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Netiv Aryeh Inc; the most unlike its peers is Maimonides Way 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

51 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. 51 of the 147 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
37/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION YESHIVA YAD MOISHE: $91,788 · OtherCONGREGATION YESHIVA YAD MOISHEAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA KODSHIM: $86,201 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA KODSHIMBINYAN YERUSHLAIM: $70,901 · OtherBINYAN YERUSHLAIMNCSY: $62,860 · OtherNCSYORTHODOX UNION: $35,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · Other+97 more: $354,916 · Other+97 moreISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC CO MR AVI SCHOEMANN: $129,575 · InternationalISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC C…Central Fund of Israel: $104,100 · InternationalCentral Fund of IsraelTORAH COMMUNITY FUND INC: $61,988 · InternationalTORAH COMMUNITY FUND INCYAD EZRA V'SHULAMIT: $60,000 · InternationalYAD EZRA V'SHULAMIT+6 more: $19,115 · InternationalJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $60,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEMA'AN ACHAI: $12,000 · PhilanthropySHUVU RETURN INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $9,515 · PhilanthropyAmerican Friends of Ayelet Hashachar: $5,400 · Philanthropy+2 more: $525 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAIS TEFILA: $18,216 · ReligionNoam Shabbos Inc: $15,350 · ReligionFRIENDS OF SEEACH SODE INC: $12,460 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR: $10,000 · ReligionKOLEL TORAH INC: $10,000 · ReligionArachim America Inc: $5,300 · Religion+6 more: $4,545 · ReligionAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $59,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TOMER DEVORAH SEMINA RY INC: $39,900 · EducationYESHIVAS OHR HATORAH INC: $3,000 · EducationYESHIVA ARZEI LEVANON: $2,505 · Education+2 more: $795 · EducationMATAN B'SETER BAMBIINC: $7,380 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHER YEHUDI: $5,600 · Human ServicesKEREN HATZEDAKA INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHAKSHIVA INC: $4,200 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $4,100 · Human ServicesAVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC: $2,160 · Human Services+2 more: $1,750 · Human Services
Other$727,066International$374,778Philanthropy$97,440Religion$75,871Youth Development$60,000Education$46,200Human Services$30,190

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 budgetISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC CO MR AVI SCHOEMANN: $129,575 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $104,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTORAH COMMUNITY FUND INC: $61,988 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetYAD EZRA V'SHULAMIT: $60,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $59,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TOMER DEVORAH SEMINA RY INC: $39,900 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAIS TEFILA: $18,216 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetNoam Shabbos Inc: $15,350 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF SEEACH SODE INC: $12,460 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEMA'AN ACHAI: $12,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANATEVKA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKOLEL TORAH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHUVU RETURN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $9,515 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMATAN B'SETER BAMBIINC: $7,380 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHER YEHUDI: $5,600 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of Ayelet Hashachar: $5,400 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetArachim America Inc: $5,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMASBIA: $5,060 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKEREN HATZEDAKA INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAKSHIVA INC: $4,200 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $4,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUST ONE LIFE INC: $3,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $3,175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVAS OHR HATORAH INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC: $2,160 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BIKUR CHOLIM EZRAT ACHIM: $1,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKEREN HASHVIIS INC: $1,095 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NETIV ARYEH INC: $1,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVAAD HARABBANIM L'INYANEI TZEDUKA INC: $1,040 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT OHR YERUSHALAYIM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJOIN ISRAEL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMS FOUNDATION: $720 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetZICHRON TZVI ELIMELECH: $505 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOURO UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEYLIM LEV LACHIM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NEVE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN INC: $360 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Yedidim Inc: $360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Emek Learning Center Inc: $360 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Bet Knesset Hanassi: $295 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPilzno Inc: $275 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPaamonim: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $180 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 ISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC CO MR AVI SCHOEMANN ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds TORAH COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds YAD EZRA V'SHULAMIT ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds American Friends of Migdal OHR ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TOMER DEVORAH SEMINA RY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAIS TEFILA ↗
  • Who funds Noam Shabbos Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SEEACH SODE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEMA'AN ACHAI ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANATEVKA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR ↗
  • Who funds KOLEL TORAH INC ↗
  • Who funds SHUVU RETURN INC ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS 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 FundThe Ojc FundFjcThe Jmg FoundationAssociated Jewish Cha…Zichron Yechiel Meche…The Jimmy and Berta K…Jack Adjmi Family Fou…The Dennis Berman Fam…Marbeh Shalom Foundat…Traditional Fund IncThe Slomo and Cindy S…
Jewish Communal FundNY38× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Fjc · The Jmg Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · Traditional Fund Inc · The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation 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 Weindel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Weindel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Yeshivas Ohr Hatorah Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Mesorah Heritage Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
2report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Weindel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Weindel 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 147 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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