· Private foundation
Chesed Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DESERT TORAH ACADEMY | $11,500 |
| CHABAD OF SOUTHERN NEVADA | $7,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BEHIND THE BLUE | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| CENTRAL FUND FOR ISRAEL | $3,000 |
| QUALITY OF LIFE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
| CHABAD OF EAST BAY | $1,800 |
| YJP LAS VEGAS | $1,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIR OF LV | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $500 |
| SAFE NEST | $500 |
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 (FY17–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +93% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCentral Fund of Israel9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +145%
- TJTHE JERUSALEM FELLOWSHIPS INC5× · 2019–2023 · $12k · revenue +135%
- AGAMERICA GIVES INC4× · 2018–2021 · $7k · revenue +392%
Funded once
- CACANTOR'S ASSEMBLYone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -21%
- AYAM YISRAEL CHAI FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +94%
- DDDEANS DISCRETIONARY FUNDone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
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.
International humanitarian aid organization. the organization provides aid to people living under the poverty line and subsistent living standards including the elderly, orphans, widows, handicapped, homeless, abused, new immigrants, and…
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
To support the needy in israel.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Assistance to the indigent
Founded in 1948, Shelters for Israels mission is to provide funding for vital projects, programs, and facilities in Israel to support the neediest populations, with a focus on improving the lives of children and the elderly, including…
Yad ezra v'shulamit's mission is to provide over 300,000 people in israel with food and basic supplies for those living in poverty by distributing 12,000 weekly food baskets. with a focus on children we try to ensure that hundreds of…
Rescue in israel exists as ohel avraham (abrahams tent) in israel ohel avraham carries out the day to day work, working with the homeless on the streets of tel aviv. ohel avraham is a registered not for profit organization in israel. ohel…
Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 45 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.
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds THE JERUSALEM FELLOWSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds QUALITY OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds CANTOR'S ASSEMBLY ↗
- Who funds AM YISRAEL CHAI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEHIND THE BLUE ↗
- Who funds SOROPTIMIST INTL OF MCMINNVILLE ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 150 ↗
- Who funds NEWS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF POLICE CHAPLAINS 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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chesed Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chesed Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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