· Public charity
Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation
To advance, promote and support the charitable purposes of the youngstown area jewish community board and the youngstown area jewish federation
Read this first · the figures below need context
69% of Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Youngstown Area Jewish Federation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 25 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 30 organizations, $521k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 34 grants below total $520,707 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,026,390 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,505,683 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k16 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $308k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $122k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA | $65,500 |
| COMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION | $56,350 |
| UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN & MAHONING VALLEY | $41,865 |
| HAND IN HAND | $35,000 |
| STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM | $26,420 |
| JEWISH FOUNDERS NETWORK | $25,000 |
| YWCA | $24,000 |
| YOUNGSTOWN BUSINESS INCUBATOR | $23,650 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $16,533 |
| TEMPLE EL EMETH | $16,365 |
| ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS | $16,250 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF WESTERN GALIILEE HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY | $13,910 |
| AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MAHONING VALLELY | $12,856 |
| CONGREGATION RODEF SHOLOM | $10,855 |
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 (FY19–24, $276k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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 100% of Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation’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, 92% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 0% — 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.
43 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2020, 15 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- YSYOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $367k · revenue +64%
- CFCOMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER YOUNGSTOWN6× · 2019–2024 · $274k · revenue +67%
- YMYWCA MAHONING VALLEY6× · 2019–2024 · $180k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- AACLDone grant, 2019 · $55k
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +115%- IGISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLINDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +65%
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 advance, promote and support the charitable purposes of the youngstown area jewish community board and the youngstown area jewish federation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youngstown Area Jewish Federation and the most unlike its peers is Ohio Pharmacists Foundation. 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 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 76 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 YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH CEMETERIES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER YOUNGSTOWN ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds YWCA MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNGSTOWN EDISON BUSINESS INCUBATOR ↗
- Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA ↗
- Who funds OH WOW THE ROGER & GLORIA JONES CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR SCIENCE & TECH ↗
- Who funds MAHONING VALLEY SOJOURN TO THE PAST ↗
- Who funds HENRY H STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM ASSOC ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Vets Helping Heroes Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds RUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF THE MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF WGH WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL NAHARIYA C/O THE LAPIN GROUP ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BLOCKS CHILD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA LIONS EYE CLINC INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN STRING INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS MOTIVATED BY THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION AT OHIO UNIV ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
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: Youngstown Area Jewish Federation · Youngstown Fdn General · Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Fibushendricks Family Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Frances Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46496008 · Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Fdn · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Florence S Beecher Fdn · Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char · Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust · The Raymond John Wean 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 Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation 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.
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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