· Private foundation
Abraham & Florence Mendel Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ICHUD MOSDOS HACHINUCH | $50,000 |
| HEBREW ACADAMY OF LONG BEACH | $10,325 |
| VARIOUS AMOUNTS UNDER 250 | $1,850 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $575 |
| ZICHRON AVOS | $360 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NSNORTH SHORE HEBREW ACADEMY3× · 2019–2021 · $19k · revenue +61%
- SSSHULAMITH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC2× · 2022–2023 · $8k · revenue +22%
- AOALWAYS OUR KIDS INC2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- YDYESHIVA DARCHAI TORAHone grant, 2019 · $50k
- YAYESHIVA AND MESIVTA TORAS CHAIM OF GREATER NEW YORK AT SOUTH SHOREone grant, 2020 · $40k
- OUORTHODOX UNIONone grant, 2022 · $11k
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.
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.
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
Providing secular and religious education for high school aged students
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
To provide academic excellence in both limudei kodesh and secular studies.
To expand torah education
Yeshiva chayei olam inc., was established for the purpose of having an orthodox jewish high school. the school teaches talumdic studies, talmudic jurasprudence, orthodox jewish ethics and the old testament. in addition, the school provides…
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
Providing jewish education to high school age students.
Support of religious schools in Israel
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 54 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Caroline & Joseph S Gruss Life Monument Funds Inc · The Ojc Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Abraham & Florence Mendel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abraham & Florence Mendel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yeshiva Ohr Yehuda Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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