· 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,…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 23 grants below total $1,512,953 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,545,891 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $32,938 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $77k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $337k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Friends of Ya-adir Torah | $337,475 |
| Lev L'Achim | $202,120 |
| American Friends of Yad Eliezer | $200,000 |
| TIKVA CORP - DBA TIKVA CHILDRENS' HOME | $105,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| American Friends of Migdal Ohr | $100,000 |
| Friends of Yad Sarah | $75,000 |
| American Friends of Zichron Eliezer | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $74,508 |
| Agudath Israel of Ohio | $67,500 |
| Sulamot | $50,000 |
| American Friends of Mosdot Beth Shemesh | $43,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $23,850 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Agudath Israel of Illinois | $9,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
19 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 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
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
- ACAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE EDUCATION AND WELFARE OF JEWS6× · 2017–2022 · $2.8M · revenue +30% · 38% of their budget
- AIAgudath Israel Of America Community Services Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +17%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE KIEV JEWISH COMMUNITY2× · 2017–2022 · $301k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- MMMEYERLAND MINYAN INCone grant, 2018 · $75k
- KGKEREN GEMILAS CHASODIM INCone grant, 2023 · $50k
- MBMERKAZ BNOSone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.
None
Furtherance of jewish education
To provide grants to religious schools providing higher education
To further jewish education in israel
Promotion of orthodox jewish education.
Assistance to establish a community in ramat beit shemesh, israel, founded upon torah principles, prayer, justice, charity and kindness to all peoples. to encourage and promote jewish religious activities.
Provide support to further jewish education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of the Kiev Jewish Community and the most unlike its peers is West Side Kollel Torah Center. 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 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 103 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 TIKVA CORP ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE EDUCATION AND WELFARE OF JEWS ↗
- Who funds Agudath Israel Of America Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SEPHARDIC HERITAGE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE JEWISH CAMPUS BERLIN INC ↗
- Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE KIEV JEWISH COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CENTER OF GUR INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Agudath Israel of Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds VAAD L 'HATZOLAS NIDCHEI YISROEL INC ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE KOLLEL TORAH CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds YAD YISROEL ↗
- Who funds GEDER AVOS JEWISH HERITAGE GROUP 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: 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
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 Agudath Israel of America 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.
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.