· Private foundation
Zell and Myrna Hurwitz Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $184k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION | $96,500 |
| THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES | $87,500 |
| NER TAMID GREENSPRING VALLEY | $30,120 |
| IMADI | $18,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,982 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| ALGEMEINER INC | $5,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $3,600 |
| HILLEL UNIVERSITY OF MD COLLEGE PAR | $3,600 |
| JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION | $3,600 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $2,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,050 |
| GOUCHER COLLEGE HILLEL | $1,800 |
| BNAI ISRAEL CONGREGATION OF B'MORE | $1,800 |
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 (FY20–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- LCLEHRMAN COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC3× · 2019–2023 · $40k · revenue +150%
- BIBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +19%
- MUMOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC2× · 2021–2022 · $13k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIone grant, 2022 · $18k
- CLCHAI LIFELINE MID-ATLANTICone grant, 2021 · $15k
- CLCHAI LIFELINE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +38%
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
The mission of gw hillel is to provide an open, warm, and pluralistic environment in which students can shape their college experience by connecting socially, culturally, and spiritually to their judaism. hillel aims to foster students'…
Enhance the lives of jewish students as that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. hillel actively seeks to engage jewish students on their own terms, to provide them with opportunities to participate in jewish life.
The mission of the organization is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
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…
Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…
To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Repair the World and the most unlike its peers is The Maryland Food Bank Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 136 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 GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALGEMEINER INC ↗
- Who funds Imadi Inc ↗
- Who funds LEHRMAN COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Chabad of Iceland Inc ↗
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: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jewish Communal Fund · Center for Jewish Education Inc · Crane Family Foundation Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc · Herbert Bearman Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Kathy L Shapiro Foundation Inc Inc
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 Zell and Myrna Hurwitz Foundation 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc — 0% of income from government
- Torah Academy of Bergen County — 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.
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