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Alex and Zoli 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.

$8k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
29%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 19
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$28k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Alex and Zoli Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$8k13%
FY20247$10k29%
FY20237$6k29%
FY20225$9k0%
FY20219$28k33%
FY202012$27k42%
FY201910$26k20%
FY201819$53k74%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$195kReligion$148kHuman Services$36kEducation$14kAnimals$6kPhilanthropy$5kHealth$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Institute for Dayanim$54,40071%
Yeshiva Heichal Yitzchak Lando Inc$16,0002n/a
Lev Berel Inc$10,80080%
Congregation Supporters of Torah Inc$6,5003n/a
Matan B'Seter Bambiinc$6,00011%
Congregation Tiferes Yaakov$5,8002n/a
Cong Agudath Israel of Boro Park$5,0001n/a
Central Fund of Israel$5,00030%
Yeshivas Ohr Reuven$5,0001n/a
Kollel International Inc$4,5003n/a
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All grantees of Alex and Zoli Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Institute for Dayanim$54,40071%
Yeshiva Heichal Yitzchak Lando Inc$16,0002n/a
Lev Berel Inc$10,80080%
Congregation Supporters of Torah Inc$6,5003n/a
Matan B'Seter Bambiinc$6,00011%
Congregation Tiferes Yaakov$5,8002n/a
Cong Agudath Israel of Boro Park$5,0001n/a
Central Fund of Israel$5,00030%
Yeshivas Ohr Reuven$5,0001n/a
Kollel International Inc$4,5003n/a
American Friends of P'Tachinc$4,50013%
American friends of Machon Daniel Inc$3,8001n/a
Ohr Hatorah$3,50020%
Congregation Knesst Simcha$3,0004n/a
The Jewish Center for Special Education$2,8001n/a
Congregation Ramat Schlomo$2,5002n/a
Machon Basya Rochel Inc$2,00011%
Yeshiva Keren Orah$2,0001n/a
Vaad Harabbanim L'Inyanei Tzeduka Inc$2,00010%
Chai Lifeline Inc$1,80010%
Bnei Aram Soba$1,5002n/a
Keser Dovidinc$1,50011%
Imanu$1,00012%
Yeshivas Nachlas Bnei Shimon$1,00010%
Lcby Inc$1,00010%
Gilo Charity Fund$1,0001n/a
American Friends of Meshi Inc$1,00010%
Darchei David Foundation$1,0001n/a
Friends of Kaf Hachaim Yeshiva Inc$1,00011%
Rabbinical Seminary Netzach Israel$8501n/a

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($76k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alex and Zoli Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInstitute for Dayanim: $54,400 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetLev Berel Inc: $10,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMatan B'Seter Bambiinc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of P'Tachinc: $4,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetOhr Hatorah: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMachon Basya Rochel Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVaad Harabbanim L'Inyanei Tzeduka Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChai Lifeline Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKeser Dovidinc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetImanu: $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetYeshivas Nachlas Bnei Shimon: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLcby Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of Meshi Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Kaf Hachaim Yeshiva Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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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.

Jack Adjmi Family Foundation IncNY32.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Jmg Foundation · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Adjmi-Dwek Foundation Inc · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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.

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How do I get to Alex and Zoli Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Alex and Zoli Foundation 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.

About Alex and Zoli Foundation

How much does Alex and Zoli Foundation give?
Alex and Zoli Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $8,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Alex and Zoli Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (48%), Religion (37%), Human Services (9%).
Who are Alex and Zoli Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Institute for Dayanim ($54k), Yeshiva Heichal Yitzchak Lando Inc ($16k), Lev Berel Inc ($11k).
Does Alex and Zoli Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Alex and Zoli Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Alex and Zoli Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc, The Ojc Fund, Jewish Communal Fund.
Where is Alex and Zoli Foundation based?
Alex and Zoli Foundation is based in NY.

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 49 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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