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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

$3.0M
Granted FY2020
34
Grants FY2020
7
States reached
$66k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

42
’19
30
’20
18
’21
25
’22
18
’23
25
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$13MReligion$1.5MMembership Benefit$1.4MEducation$446kHealth$363kArts & Culture$280kHuman Services$266kInternational$226kOther$0
02FY2020 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 34 grants below total $520,707, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,026,390 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,505,683 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k16 grants · $91k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $308k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $122k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 6%BUILDING BLOCKS CHILDREN'S CENTER: $25k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER AKRON & MAHONING VALLEY: $6k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER AKRON & MAHONING VALLEY: $6k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER AKRON & MAHONING VALLEY: $6k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS ARMED FORCES PROGRAM: $6k → 19%YWCA: $67k → 19%YWCA: $26k → 19%YWCA: $24k → 19%YWCA: $23k → 19%YWCA: $20k → 19%YWCA: $20k → 19%GOLDEN STRING: $13k → 19%GOLDEN STRING: $10k → 19%POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 19%POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: $6k → 19%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
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
AZ
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 0%.

Youngstown Area Jewish Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 43 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
10

Total granted

$3.5M
$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+64%

Still filing today

79%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEducationReligionOther
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

  • YS
    YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · $367k · revenue +64%
  • CF
    COMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER YOUNGSTOWN
    6× · 2019–2024 · $274k · revenue +67%
  • YM
    YWCA MAHONING VALLEY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $180k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • A
    ACLD
    one grant, 2019 · $55k
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +115%
  • IG
    ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLINDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +65%
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
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

Religion
2
Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton Inc

The jewish federation of greater dayton is the central organization established to further the welfare of the jewish community. the federation coordinates social, welfare and cultural programs; fosters cooperation among jewish…

Philanthropy
3
The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy
4
Hillel Jewish University Center

To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

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5
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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6
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
7
Jewish Senior Life

To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.

Religion
8
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
9
Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven Inc

The jewish foundation of greater new haven's mission is to solicit and properly manage current and new charitable endowments and planned gifts for organizations in greater new haven so that there will be permanent and ongoing funding for…

Religion
10
Jewish Institute for the Blind (Jerusalem) Inc

To educate, enrich and empower visually impaired people across israel to achieve their full potential and become contributing members of society.

International
11
Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City

To sustain and enhance jewish life at home and around the world.

Philanthropy
12
Jewish Federation of Detroit

The jewish federation of detroit is the cornerstone of our jewish community. we are committed to taking care of the needs of the jewish people and building a strong and vibrant jewish future, in detroit, in israel and around the world.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youngstown Area Jewish Federation; 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.
05the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/62
Grantees still filing
41/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION: $12,373,547 · PhilanthropyYOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATIONTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $502,825 · Philanthropy+8 more: $450,748 · PhilanthropyCONGREGATION OHEV BETH SHOLOM: $650,265 · OtherCONGREGATION O…TEMPLE EL EMETH: $448,187 · OtherTEMPLE EL EMET…TREE OF LIFE CONGREGATION: $100,000 · OtherISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $103,750 · OtherTHE YOUNGSTOWN EDISON BUSINESS INCUBATOR: $123,950 · OtherTHE YOUNGSTOWN…+40 more: $855,921 · Other+40 moreYOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH CEMETERIES ASSOCIATION: $1,401,224 · Membership BenefitYOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $367,053 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $18,910 · Education+1 more: $5,500 · EducationCOMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER YOUNGSTOWN: $273,897 · ReligionHatzalah Yehuda and Shomron Inc: $13,000 · ReligionYWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $179,500 · Human ServicesBUILDING BLOCKS CHILD CENTER INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesGOLDEN STRING INC: $23,347 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $22,000 · Human ServicesPOTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $10,000 · Human ServicesDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · HealthRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $28,533 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $27,300 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON: $26,145 · HealthFLORIDA LIONS EYE CLINC INC: $25,000 · HealthOHIO PHARMACISTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Health+2 more: $10,600 · Health
Philanthropy$13,327,120Other$2,282,073Membership Benefit$1,401,224Education$411,463Religion$286,897Human Services$275,847Health$247,578

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION: $12,373,547 over 5y, 19% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH CEMETERIES ASSOCIATION: $1,401,224 over 1y, 49% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $502,825 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $367,053 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER YOUNGSTOWN: $273,897 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $200,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetYWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $179,500 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY: $124,865 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE YOUNGSTOWN EDISON BUSINESS INCUBATOR: $123,950 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $103,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $70,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOH WOW THE ROGER & GLORIA JONES CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR SCIENCE & TECH: $64,250 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetMAHONING VALLEY SOJOURN TO THE PAST: $58,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetHENRY H STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM ASSOC: $51,420 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVets Helping Heroes Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $29,883 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $28,533 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $27,900 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $27,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF THE MAHONING VALLEY: $27,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON: $26,145 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA LIONS EYE CLINC INC: $25,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF WGH WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL NAHARIYA C/O THE LAPIN GROUP: $25,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetBUILDING BLOCKS CHILD CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGOLDEN STRING INC: $23,347 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSTUDENTS MOTIVATED BY THE ARTS INC: $22,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $22,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL FOUNDATION AT OHIO UNIV: $21,300 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY M HALSTEAD FIELD OF OPPORTUNITY: $20,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Working Group: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN WARREN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPOTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE MAHONING VALLEY: $16,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART: $15,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF MAHONING VALLEY INC: $14,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetHatzalah Yehuda and Shomron Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBALLET WESTERN RESERVE: $10,700 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetALL CHILDREN LEARN DIFFERENTLY SCHOOL AND LEARNING CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Youngstown Area Jewis…Youngstown Fdn GeneralCommunity Foundation …Fibushendricks Family…Premier Bank Foundati…Frances Schermer Char…Frank & Pearl Gelbman…The Wm M & a Cafaro F…Florence S Beecher FdnSenator Maurice & Flo…Walter E & Caroline H…The Raymond John Wean…
Youngstown Area Jewish FederationOH66.4× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get 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
    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 Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Youngstown Area Jewish 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 76 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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