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Benei Meron Inc at a glance

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Benei Meron Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$175k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$401kPhilanthropy$329kEducation$55kYouth Development$45kHuman Services$23kInternational$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $72k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$3,600
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE CHESED FUND$3,600
SHALOM FOUNDATION$3,600
BE A FRIEND$3,600
HEICHAL HATORAH$2,814
RACHEL LEAH CHESED FUND$2,304
BET MEDRASH HECHAL SHMUEL$1,501
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SHALOM FOUNDATION: $7k → 4%SHALOM FOUNDATION: $4k → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$743k · 15 repeat orgs$249k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against -6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
11

Total granted

$743k
$189k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
-6%

Still filing today

40%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyReligionEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • DN
    DARCHEI NOAM INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $54k · revenue +18%
  • ME
    MEHKERE ERES INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $52k · revenue +86%
  • BA
    BE A FRIEND CORP
    2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $43k
  • LA
    LEV ARYEH
    one grant, 2023 · $41k
  • YF
    YASHAR FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $23k · revenue -6%
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.

1
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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3
Bais Yehuda Perach Rochel Foundation
Public Benefit
4
Tzemach Yifroch Foundation
—
5
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.

Education
6
Tal Hashamayim Foundation
Religion
7
Meor Hachaim Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
9
Ohr Olam Corp

publish religious books

Religion
10
Meir Isa Bracha Inc

To help establish and maintain agendas for Hebrew and religious enlightenment

Religion
11
Mifal Tzedaka Vchesed Chasdei Aharo N Inc

Provide financial assistance to torah and talmudic scholars, as well as to other needy individuals and other organizations that work to promote these purposes.

Philanthropy
12
Ohr Yitzchok Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tomchei Tzedaka Corp; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS CHARITIES LESS THEN 5000: $265,336 · OtherVARIOUS CHARITIES LESS THEN 5000YAD YOSEF: $155,028 · OtherYAD YOSEFDARCHEI NOAM INC: $54,000 · OtherDARCHEI NOAM INCCONG OHEL SIMHA YOUTH: $44,645 · OtherCONG OHEL SIMHA YOUTHIndividual grant recipient: $43,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLEV ARYEH: $40,667 · OtherATERET TORAH CENTER: $27,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $26,600 · Other+15 more: $138,615 · Other+15 moreMEHKERE ERES INC: $52,320 · ReligionMEHKERE E…BET MIDRASH KARNE RAM INC: $17,350 · ReligionBET MIDRA…TOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $11,600 · ReligionTOMCHEI T…GOFUNDMEORG: $26,000 · PhilanthropyYASHAR FOUNDATION INC: $22,986 · PhilanthropyBE A FRIEND CORP: $11,600 · PhilanthropyOHR MEIR UBRACHA: $11,400 · PhilanthropyYESHIVA KETER TORAH INC: $28,360 · EducationHEICHAL HATORAH: $2,814 · EducationBET YAAKOV OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC: $1,250 · EducationTHE SHALOM FOUNDATION: $10,800 · Human Services
Other$794,891Religion$81,270Philanthropy$71,986Education$32,424Human Services$10,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDARCHEI NOAM INC: $54,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetMEHKERE ERES INC: $52,320 over 3y, 17% of budgetYESHIVA KETER TORAH INC: $28,360 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $26,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYASHAR FOUNDATION INC: $22,986 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBET MIDRASH KARNE RAM INC: $17,350 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetBE A FRIEND CORP: $11,600 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $11,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOHR MEIR UBRACHA: $11,400 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SHALOM FOUNDATION: $10,800 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHEICHAL HATORAH: $2,814 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBET YAAKOV OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • 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 ↗

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 Fou…The Howard Hoffman & …The Jimmy and Berta K…Jewish Communal FundIc Hessed FoundationThe Setton FoundationThe Ojc FundYekara Derashbi IncComp Foundation IncMPS Foundation IncJane & Sam Sutton Fam…The Adjmi-Dwek Founda…
Jack Adjmi Family Foundation IncNY21.3× affinity8 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 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

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 Benei Meron Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benei Meron Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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How do I get to Benei Meron Inc?

Find your warmest path to Benei Meron Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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