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Yud Foundation Inc

To Help the Jewish mission by providing funding, support, and connections to community organizations dedicated to securing a vibrant Jewish future.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $3,677,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,892,300 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $214,800 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $106k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $246k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.3M
$21,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$517k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Samson Charitable$3,000,000
Friends of Mishteret Yisrael - Yatar Division$325,500
GSD Advisors$125,000
Young Jewish Professionals$121,000
Resilient Advocacy$25,000
Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan$21,000
The Michael & Shirley Cayre Foundation Inc$20,000
Yad Yosef$10,000
American Gives Inc$10,000
Hatzolah Air$10,000
Lev Chana$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Young Jewish Professionals: $121k → 17%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.
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 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
Yad Yosef Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Bais Yisrael Foundation
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3
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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4
The Yad Moach Vlev Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Israel Charitable Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
6
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
7
Yakar Foundation Inc
—
8
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Jewish Life Foundation
—
10
Tzemach Yifroch Foundation
—
11
Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc
Civil Rights
12
University of Judaism Foundation
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hatzolah Emergency Air Response Team Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Michael & Shirley Cayre Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 11 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAMSON CHARITABLE FUND: $3,000,000 · Civil RightsSAMSON CHARITABLE FUNDFRIENDS OF MISHTERET YISRAEL: $325,500 · InternationalFRIENDS OF…GSD Advisers Inc: $125,000 · EducationYJP FOUNDATION INC: $121,000 · Human ServicesTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MICHAEL & SHIRLEY CAYRE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICA GIVES INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyYESHIVA KETANA OF MANHATTAN: $21,000 · OtherLEV CHANA INC: $10,000 · OtherYAD YOSEF: $10,000 · OtherHATZOLAH EMERGENCY AIR RESPONSE TEAM INC: $10,000 · Health
Civil Rights$3,000,000International$325,500Education$125,000Human Services$121,000Philanthropy$55,000Other$41,000Health$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF MISHTERET YISRAEL: $325,500 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetGSD Advisers Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetYJP FOUNDATION INC: $121,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL & SHIRLEY CAYRE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $10,000 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.

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 FundNY13.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Yud Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Yud Foundation Inc 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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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