· Private foundation
Traditional Fund Inc
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k53 grants · $128k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $228k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $213k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC | $153,054 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $60,000 |
| YESHIVA TORAT EMET | $36,000 |
| GATEWAYS | $35,750 |
| ZICHRON TZVI ELIMELECH | $23,600 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT D'MIR | $21,600 |
| TORCH | $20,000 |
| NE'EMAN FOUNDATION USA | $18,000 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY FUND | $11,800 |
| YESHIVA ARZEI LEVANON | $11,075 |
| CONGREGATION BETH ABRAHAM | $10,554 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT HARAAYON | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION AYSHEL AVRAHAM | $10,000 |
| MAAYANOT | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE JERUSALEM KOLLEL | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of Traditional Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 27% of the giving stays in NJ; read by stated purpose it is 24% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- CFCentral Fund of Israel2× · 2021–2022 · $400k · revenue +98%
- CSCHOCHMAT SHLOMO USA INC CO HERBERT SCHUSTER6× · 2018–2024 · $345k · revenue +887%
- IFISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC CO MR AVI SCHOEMANN8× · 2017–2024 · $327k · revenue +208%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF ADERES HATORAH INCone grant, 2023 · $32k · revenue +6%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVOT BNEI AKIVAone grant, 2022 · $25k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KO TOMARone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To further jewish education in israel
Support of religious schools in Israel
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.
Religious School
To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.
Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide educational and social improvement for the children of kiryat arba, israel.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beitar Illit Advanced Talmud Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 195 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 Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds CHOCHMAT SHLOMO USA INC CO HERBERT SCHUSTER ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC CO MR AVI SCHOEMANN ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds SEPHARDIC GAN TORAT EMET INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA KTANA OF PASSAIC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE JERUSALEM KOLLEL INC ↗
- Who funds ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds OHR TORAH INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ADERES HATORAH INC ↗
- Who funds HAKSHIVA INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds American Yedidim Inc ↗
- Who funds NE EMAN FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA ARZEI LEVANON ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TORAH COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BIKUR CHOLIM EZRAT ACHIM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NESIVOS HATORAH ↗
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 · The Ojc Fund · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Jmg Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Ezra Charitable Trust · Fjc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Cross River Community Foundation · The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation Inc · The Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc · The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation
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 Traditional Fund Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Special Children Center — 5% of income from government
- Yehudi Inc — 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.