New York · Public charity
Agudath Israel of America
In accordance with halacha,jewish religious law,to promote and foster the ideals of orthodox judaism,and develop and maintain interest in judaism's religion, culture and traditions by the erection, support and maintenance of synagogues,centers, educational classes, schools, vacation camps, libraries, conduct of religious service,…
- $4.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.7M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,262,435
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Agudath Israel of America funded were first-time grantees, receiving 92% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $3.7M | 56% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $1.5M | 83% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $3.8M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $12M | 89% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $277k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $569k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $373k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $820k | 59% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tikva Corp | $7,593,670 | 4 | 13% |
| American Committee for the Education and Welfare of Jews | $2,825,000 | 6 | 38% |
| Yad Yisroel | $2,508,254 | 4 | n/a |
| Agudath Israel Of America Community Services Inc | $1,135,665 | 5 | 7% |
| The Sephardic Heritage Museum Inc | $1,121,834 | 2 | 17% |
| American Friends of the Jewish Campus Berlin Inc | $618,559 | 2 | 23% |
| Agudath Israel of America Foundation | $447,000 | 2 | 16% |
| American Friends of the Kiev Jewish Community | $301,120 | 2 | 3% |
| Federation of Jewish Communities of the Cis Inc | $276,109 | 2 | 0% |
| Agudath Israel of South Florida Inc | $185,000 | 4 | 39% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tikva Corp | $7,593,670 | 4 | 13% |
| American Committee for the Education and Welfare of Jews | $2,825,000 | 6 | 38% |
| Yad Yisroel | $2,508,254 | 4 | n/a |
| Agudath Israel Of America Community Services Inc | $1,135,665 | 5 | 7% |
| The Sephardic Heritage Museum Inc | $1,121,834 | 2 | 17% |
| American Friends of the Jewish Campus Berlin Inc | $618,559 | 2 | 23% |
| Agudath Israel of America Foundation | $447,000 | 2 | 16% |
| American Friends of the Kiev Jewish Community | $301,120 | 2 | 3% |
| Federation of Jewish Communities of the Cis Inc | $276,109 | 2 | 0% |
| Agudath Israel of South Florida Inc | $185,000 | 4 | 39% |
| Agudath Israel of Ohio Inc | $164,225 | 4 | 12% |
| Agudath Israel of Illinois | $135,938 | 3 | 1% |
| Chabad Lubavitch Center | $128,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Meyerland Minyan Inc | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Compliance Resources Inc | $63,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Vaad L 'Hatzolas Nidchei Yisroel Inc | $57,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Ner Israel Rabbinical College Inc | $50,720 | 2 | n/a |
| West Side Kollel Torah Center | $50,000 | 1 | 31% |
| Merkaz Bnos | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Keren Gemilas Chasodim Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Achdut | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yad Yisroel | $39,300 | 5 | 0% |
| Operation Open Curtain - Gemilas Chesed for Russian Jews | $37,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Temech Inc | $36,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Geder Avos Jewish Heritage Group Inc | $36,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Mishna Rishona Inc | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshiva of Far Rockaway | $33,750 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of Thorat Chajm Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Segulos Yaakov Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Keren Ami Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 81% |
| American Friends of Kesher Yehudi | $30,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Congregation Ohr Hatorah | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Agudath Israel of California INC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Menachem Zion | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Torch Torah Outreach Resource Center of Houston | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Organization for the Resolution of Agunot Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Rabbi Jacob Joseph School | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Keren Yehoshua V'Yisroel | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American Friends of Vladivostok Inc | $21,432 | 1 | 1% |
| Bais Yaakov Girls High School of Minneapolis | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Toras Chesed Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Israel Magen Fund Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| West Orange Ervv Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kollel Zichron Yosef Dej | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Rachashei Lev Whispers of The Heart | $19,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Friends of Kishinev Jewry | $18,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Congregation Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ahavas Oylom Inc | $17,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Kolel Torah Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Congregation Anshi Fallsburg | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Ktana of Passaic | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Yeshiva Keren Orah | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Moshe | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Beth Tefilla of Monsey | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Matanah Bsesser of South Florida I | $11,500 | 1 | 1% |
| American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Gemach of Jackson Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Yeshiva of Minneapolis | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Agudath Israel of Flatbush | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Mekor Hatorah | $9,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Mesivta Eitz Chaim | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Talmudic Research Center of Northern New Jersey | $8,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Congregation Supporters of Torah Inc | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Darchei Torah | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Bnei Torah of Lawrence | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Yeshiva Dmir Inc | $7,800 | 1 | 0% |
| World of Giving Inc | $7,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Hebrew Academy of Long Beach | $6,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Agudath Israel of Long Island | $6,625 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Yad Yitzchak Inc | $6,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Congregation Gates of Prayer Inc | $6,300 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Ramat Bet Shemesh | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Ahavath Israel of Edison Nj | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Keren Otzar Hachaim Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Congregation Zichron Shlomo | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Adas Yereim of Kew Gardens Inc | $5,577 | 1 | n/a |
| Cong of East Veterans | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Kneseth Israel | $5,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Bais Medrash of Harborview | $5,360 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Agudath Israel of America supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Alyad Foundation Inc · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · The Jmg Foundation · Donors Fund Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Fishoff Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Agudath Israel of America
- How much does Agudath Israel of America give?
- Agudath Israel of America reported 27 itemized grants totaling $3,683,605, out of $4,259,057 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Agudath Israel of America fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (43%), Religion (38%), Arts & Culture (6%).
- Who are Agudath Israel of America's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tikva Corp ($7.6M), American Committee for the Education and Welfare of Jews ($2.8M), Yad Yisroel ($2.5M).
- Does Agudath Israel of America fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Agudath Israel of America?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, National Society for Hebrew Day Schools.
- Where is Agudath Israel of America based?
- Agudath Israel of America is based in NY.
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