· Public charity
American Friends of Merkaz Chasidei Viznitz Inc
The organization will promote the importance of formal studies at academic institutions such as yeshivas, kollels, and graduate progrmas at accredited universities.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 86% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MERKAZ CHASIDEI VIZNITZ INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $683,073 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,698,974 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,015,901 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EM KOL CHAI DBA MERKAZ CHASIDEI WIZ | $200,000 |
| YESHIVA YESHOIS MOISHE VIZNITZ | $134,350 |
| CONG TZEMACH TZADIK | $60,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLLEL D'CHASIZ | $56,000 |
| EM KOL CHAI | $50,000 |
| TZUR FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| KOLLEL AHAVAS YISROEL | $39,943 |
| CONG CHASIDEI VIZNITZ | $28,000 |
| CONG CHAIM BCHESED | $20,000 |
| THE DONORS FUND | $16,520 |
| KHAL TORATH CHAIM | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| YESHIVA MESIVTA WITZNITZ OF USA | $5,760 |
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 (FY17–18, $220k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Grants abroad, by region — $1.0M on the FY2023 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: RELIG/EDUCATIONAL · RELIGIOUS
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k 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
- EKEM KOL CHAI DBA MERKAZ CHASIDEI WIZ4× · 2019–2023 · $790k
- EKEM KOL CHAI6× · 2017–2023 · $602k
- MYMESIVTA YESHIVA RABBI CHAIM BERLIN3× · 2017–2019 · $417k
Funded once
- UMUPPER MIDWEST MERKOS JEWISH EDUCATION ASSNone grant, 2017 · $270k
- CSCONG SHAAREI CHESEDone grant, 2019 · $111k
- CYCONGREGATION Y H K A INCone grant, 2017 · $53k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
6 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. 6 of the 43 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.
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 · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Donors Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Guardian Family Foundation Inc · The Etz Chaim Charitable Trust · Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation · Hf Foundation · The Lexicon Foundation Inc · American Friends of Bnai Levy Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 American Friends of Merkaz Chasidei Viznitz Inc 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 or a single department — 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.
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