· Public charity
American Friends of Sfath Emeth Yeshiva
To support jewish orthodox education and charitable causes, provide burial assistance, provide general and holiday assistance for the needy, in the united states, israel and all other parts of the world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $1,115,653 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,871,922 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,756,269 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 $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $199k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $268k
- $250k+2 grants · $628k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZECHER AVROHOM INC | $325,906 |
| CONG KEREN SHIVIM | $302,291 |
| GREATER BETH HATZLACHA INC | $200,158 |
| CONG EZRA VCHESED | $67,609 |
| YESHIVA YAGDIL TORAH | $37,995 |
| CONG & KOLEL OHEL YESOCHOR | $30,000 |
| YESHIVA KTANA INC | $27,965 |
| BNOS PEREL | $24,960 |
| CONG DERECH EMUNA | $19,970 |
| CONG CHASDEI AVOS | $17,000 |
| CONG GER STATEN ISLAND | $16,000 |
| CONG LEV SIMCHA | $15,000 |
| CONG PNEI MENACHEM | $10,000 |
| CONG EMUNAS YISROEL | $9,999 |
| LAKEWOOD CHEDER | $7,000 |
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 US giving — 50% of grant dollars ($13M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 50% that went abroad ($13M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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.
Beyond the US — 50% of all-years giving ($13M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +551% since the first grant, against -33% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 13 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $509k 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
- MHMOSDOS HATORAH VHACHESED OF PNEI MENACHEM INC2× · 2020–2021 · $3.0M · revenue +551%
- MHMOSDOS HATORAH VHACHESED PNEI MENACHEM3× · 2020–2022 · $3.0M
- KAKOLLEL AVREICHIM PNEI MENACHEM3× · 2020–2022 · $968k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $7.4M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1.2M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $709k
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 24 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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 86 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: Zecher Avrohom Inc · The Ojc Fund · Ahavat Yisroel Humanity Inc · Mosdos Hatorah Vhachesed of Pnei Menachem Inc · Park Charitable Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The United Elenar Foundation · Alternative Energy Foundation · Westlawn Foundation · Friends of Mosdot Goor · Eastlawn Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation 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 Sfath Emeth Yeshiva 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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