· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization American Friends of Merkaz Chasidei Viznitz Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Friends of Merkaz Chasidei Viznitz Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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