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.

Alex and Zoli Foundation

Alex and Zoli Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

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

02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500

Median grant

States reached

$28k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CONGREGATION TIFERET YAAKOV	$5,000
OHR HATORAH	$500
Individual grant recipient	$500
KOLLEL INTERNATIONAL	$500
LEV BEREL INC	$500
Individual grant recipient	$500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIRCAS HATORAH	$500
CONGREGATION KNESSETH SIMCHA	$400

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 21% of Alex and Zoli Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 68% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 39%.

Alex and Zoli Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 31% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$167k · 20 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +115% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$167k

$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+115%

+44%

Still filing today

20%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyReligionInternationalHuman ServicesHealthOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

IF
INSTITUTE FOR DAYANIM
7× · 2017–2023 · $54k · revenue +115%
LB
LEV BEREL INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +11%
CF
Central Fund of Israel
3× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +145%

Funded once

AF
AMERICAN FREINDS OF PTACH
one grant, 2018 · $8k
MB
MATAN B'SETER BAMBIINC
one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +19%
CA
CONG AGUDATH ISRAEL OF BORO PARK
one grant, 2017 · $5k

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.

04Its field

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.

Ziv Israel Association

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Yeshiva Beit Rafael

Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.

Philanthropy

Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International

Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc

Philanthropy

Kollel Chazon Ish

To make grants to religious and charitable organizations

—

Zichron Moshe Elihu Tzedoka Fund

Philanthropy

American Friends of Shviti Hashem Inc

To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.

Religion

Zichroin Rabbeini Meshilem Feiish Ztl Foundation

—

American Friends of Maarava Machon

To support educational advancement of yeshiva high school students

Unclassified

Chabad Lametayel Inc

encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.

—

Friends of Yeshiva Tehilas Shlomo Inc

Provide support to further jewish education

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vaad Harabbanim L'inyanei Tzeduka Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ohr Hatorah. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 49 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/19

Grantees still filing

14/19

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$189,940Other$186,800Religion$18,300International$10,500Human Services$7,000Health$1,800

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alex and Zoli Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alex and Zoli Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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