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Beni Torah Fund at a glance

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Beni Torah Fund

To collect and distribute funds to those organizations who qualify as a recognized charity or foundation of expanding the Jewish religon through education and events.

$157k
Granted FY2022
7
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$6.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Human Services$6.0MReligion$646kHealth$45kCrime & Legal$5k
02FY2022 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $84k
  • $250k+1 grant · $6.0M
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BeShefa Inc$6,000,000
Mishkan Eliyahu Umalka Inc$84,000
Congregation Or Yaacov$10,000
Ahavat Israel Nachat Isachar$10,000
Chabad of Golden Beach$6,000
Rinas Bais Yaakov$5,000
Oz Veshalom Self Defense$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

area typical 11%Our Place In New York Inc: $5k → 17%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $37k on the FY2022 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.

Middle East and North Africa$37k · 100% · 1 grant
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. 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Beni Torah Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 0%.

Beni Torah Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its 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
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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4
Sherit Isroel
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5
Ksav Sofer Inc
Philanthropy
6
Bnei Moshe
Philanthropy
7
Yeshiva Bais Tzvi Yaakov Institute

To provide jewish vocational training to approximately 20 post high school students.

Education
8
Hashevaynu Inc

The furthurance of jewish concepts and religious beliefs.

Education
9
Yeshiva Beit Rafael

Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.

Philanthropy
10
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
12
Keren Hayeshivot Fund Inc

Keren hayeshivot fund supports religious institutions of higher education in the united states and israel to raise the level of torah and halachic observance in the sephardic orthodox jewish community.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Keren Hayeshivot Trust; the most unlike its peers is Ttee Nyu Hospital for Joint Diseases- Langone. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 18 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BESHEFA INC: $6,000,000 · ReligionBESHEFA INC+3 more: $66,000 · ReligionMISHKAN ELIYAHU UMALKA INC: $168,000 · OtherTTEE NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES- LANGONE: $35,000 · OtherAhavat Israel Nachat Isachar: $25,000 · OtherBE A BETTER TODAY INC: $10,200 · OtherCONGREGATION OR YAACOV INC: $10,000 · Other+4 more: $25,000 · OtherKanfi Gavriel Fund Inc: $200,000 · PhilanthropyKEREN HAYESHIVOT TRUST: $18,000 · PhilanthropySHA'AREI ZION INSTITUTIONS INC: $133,600 · EducationRINAS BAIS YAAKOV INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureOUR PLACE IN NY INC: $5,000 · Human Services
Religion$6,066,000Other$273,200Philanthropy$218,000Education$133,600Arts & Culture$5,000Human Services$5,000

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 budgetBESHEFA INC: $6,000,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetKanfi Gavriel Fund Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetSHA'AREI ZION INSTITUTIONS INC: $133,600 over 1y, 13% of budgetTorahAnytimeCom Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTTEE NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES- LANGONE: $35,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetKEREN HAYESHIVOT TRUST: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetME-YAD JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM CHABAD OF GOLDEN BEACH INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRINAS BAIS YAAKOV INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetOUR PLACE IN NY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Ojc FundNational Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY15.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Beni Torah Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Beni Torah Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Beni Torah Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Beni Torah Fund 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 18 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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