· Private foundation
Benei Meron Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $72k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VARIOUS CHARITIES LESS THEN 5000 | $50,621 |
| DARCHEI NOAM | $36,000 |
| GO FUND ME | $26,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,009 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| CONG OHEL SIMHA YOUTH | $6,193 |
| A GIVING HAND | $5,979 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,600 |
| YAD YOSEF | $5,100 |
| SHALOM FOUNDATION | $3,600 |
| THE CHESED FUND | $3,600 |
| BE A FRIEND | $3,600 |
| HEICHAL HATORAH | $2,814 |
| RACHEL LEAH CHESED FUND | $2,304 |
| BET MEDRASH HECHAL SHMUEL | $1,501 |
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 (FY23–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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 +9% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 8 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- DNDARCHEI NOAM INC3× · 2022–2024 · $54k · revenue +18%
- MEMEHKERE ERES INC3× · 2021–2024 · $52k · revenue +86%
- BABE A FRIEND CORP2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $43k
- LALEV ARYEHone grant, 2023 · $41k
- YFYASHAR FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $23k · revenue -6%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Religious Teaching
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Religious School
publish religious books
To help establish and maintain agendas for Hebrew and religious enlightenment
Provide financial assistance to torah and talmudic scholars, as well as to other needy individuals and other organizations that work to promote these purposes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tomchei Tzedaka Corp and the most unlike its peers is Yashar Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 34 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.
- Who funds DARCHEI NOAM INC ↗
- Who funds MEHKERE ERES INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA KETER TORAH INC ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds YASHAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BET MIDRASH KARNE RAM INC ↗
- Who funds BE A FRIEND CORP ↗
- Who funds TOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP ↗
- Who funds OHR MEIR UBRACHA ↗
- Who funds THE SHALOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEICHAL HATORAH ↗
- Who funds BET YAAKOV OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC ↗
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: Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Ic Hessed Foundation · The Setton Foundation · The Ojc Fund · Yekara Derashbi Inc · Comp Foundation Inc · MPS Foundation Inc · Jane & Sam Sutton Family Foundation · The Adjmi-Dwek 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 Benei Meron 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bet Yaakov of the Jersey Shore Inc — 9% of income from government
- Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc — 8% of income from government
- Heichal Hatorah — 1% of income from government
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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