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David & Chaya Zahler Foundation Inc at a glance

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David & Chaya Zahler Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.6M
Granted FY2023
48
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$625k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$12MPhilanthropy$4.2MFood & Nutrition$1.4MHealth$463kArts & Culture$458kEducation$419kInternational$349kPublic Safety & Disaster$61kOther$0
02FY2023 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k15 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $371k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.8M
$21,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$307k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$625,000
AGUDAS BIKUR VEZRAT CHOLIM$625,000
NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HEBREW DAYSCHO$500,000
DIASPORA YESHIVA TORAS YISROEL$476,750
GEMILAS CHASODIM CHASDEI MOSHE$368,000
KEREN EZRA$250,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHASDEI YOSEF$227,500
Individual grant recipient$225,000
VARIOUS OTHER MIN$191,601
YAD ELKA$150,000
KZM$149,500
YESHIVA OF SPRING VALLEY$146,000
BAIS HAMEDRASH NETZACH YISROEL$96,400
TOV V CHESED FOUNDATION$86,000
KHAL ZICHRON MICHOEL$50,000
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 (FY17–23, $542k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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%TZEDUKAS HUIR: $100k → 14%KEREN ZICHRON MOSHE: $2k → 20%KEREN ZICHRON MOSHE: $500 → 20%CHAI 4EVER: $10k → 11%CHAI4EVER: $2k → 11%CHAI 4EVER: $1k → 11%A TIME: $1k → 20%CHAI4EVER: $1k → 11%BOBBIESPLACE: $1k → 20%A TIME: $151k → 20%A TIME: $150k → 20%A TIME: $75k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $15k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $10k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $10k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $5k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $5k → 20%MISASKIM: $2k → 20%MISASKIM: $1k → 20%MISASKIM: $1k → 20%TEHILLAT NAAVA SHLACH LACHMECHA: $180 → 20%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
OK
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 106 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +101% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

106 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2023, 69 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

106
99

Total granted

$17M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+101%
+16%

Still filing today

25%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesReligionPhilanthropyInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHASDEI YOSEF
    7× · 2017–2023 · $947k · revenue +163%
  • BV
    Bikur Vezrat Cholim Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $750k · revenue +119% · 45% of their budget
  • AT
    A Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange
    4× · 2017–2020 · $377k · revenue +346%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $188k
  • CN
    CONG NOIAM MGODIM
    one grant, 2017 · $163k
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
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
3
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
4
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

—
5
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
6
Birchas Yaakov Kollel Inc

Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith

—
7
Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship
Religion
8
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

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

Education
9
Ahavas Torah V'chesed
Philanthropy
10
Chasdei Yetev Lev Inc

Provide financial assistance to needy individuals, and to religious, educational, and charitable organizations in us and abroad.

—
11
Gemilas Chesed Kramer Inc
Philanthropy
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bnei Hayeshivos Torah and Tzedakah Inc; the most unlike its peers is Clz Charitable Fund 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

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 218 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
38/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $2,700,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAGUDAS BIKUR VEZRAT CHOLIM: $2,150,000 · OtherAGUDAS BIKUR VEZRAT CHOLIMIndividual grant recipient: $1,311,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYESHIVA OF SPRING VALLEY INC: $856,945 · OtherGEMILOS CHASODIM CHASDEI MOSHE: $789,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $775,000 · OtherBAIS HAMEDRISH NETZACH YISROEL: $768,450 · OtherKEREN EZRA: $749,800 · Other+160 more: $6,802,336 · Other+160 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHASDEI YOSEF: $946,500 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN …Bikur Vezrat Cholim Inc: $750,000 · PhilanthropyBikur Vez…+3 more: $31,500 · PhilanthropyTORAS IMECHA INC: $347,500 · EducationBAIS YAAKOV MACHON ORA A NJ NON- PROFIT CORPORATION: $63,150 · EducationMESIVTA OF CLIFTON INC: $53,300 · EducationDRESSED WITH DIGNITY INC: $34,100 · EducationMesivta Ahavas Hatorah: $21,200 · Education+3 more: $30,700 · EducationA Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange: $376,500 · Human ServicesTZEDUKAS HUIR INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesBonei Olam Inc: $45,180 · Human Services+4 more: $20,600 · Human ServicesTOV VCHESED FOUNDATION INC: $346,000 · International+1 more: $625 · InternationalYAD ELKA INC: $300,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $13,000 · Food & NutritionAmerican Friends of Chabad of Thailand Inc: $30,000 · ReligionYESHIVAS OHR V'DAAS: $5,400 · ReligionCHAYIM V CHESED: $5,000 · ReligionYESHIVA TIFERES NAFTOLI: $4,000 · Religion+3 more: $3,000 · Religion
Other$16,903,331Philanthropy$1,728,000Education$549,950Human Services$542,280International$346,625Food & Nutrition$313,000Religion$47,400

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHASDEI YOSEF: $946,500 over 7y, 18% of budgetBikur Vezrat Cholim Inc: $750,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $479,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetA Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange: $376,500 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetTORAS IMECHA INC: $347,500 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetTOV VCHESED FOUNDATION INC: $346,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetYAD ELKA INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetYESHIVA TORAS CHAIM INC: $66,150 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBAIS YAAKOV MACHON ORA A NJ NON- PROFIT CORPORATION: $63,150 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMESIVTA OF CLIFTON INC: $53,300 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $45,180 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDRESSED WITH DIGNITY INC: $34,100 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Friends of Chabad of Thailand Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF ZICHRON MEIR INC FRIENDS OF ZICHRON MEIR: $28,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetNEW HAVEN HEBREW DAY SCHOOL INC: $24,064 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMesivta Ahavas Hatorah: $21,200 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHAI 4EVER INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCATSKILLS HATZALAH INC: $12,200 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTOMCHE SHABBOS OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOROUGH PARK VOLUNTEER OF HATZOLAH: $5,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHAYIM V CHESED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA TIFERES NAFTOLI: $4,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMISASKIM CORP: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBNOS BRACHA INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKUPATH EZRAH OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC: $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASBIA: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKEREN ZICHRON MOSHE TRUST: $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCLZ CHARITABLE FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetYAD YISROEL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADIN'S CLOSET INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOBBIES PLACE INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA LAVREICHIM METZUYANIM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKOLLEL NEZIKIN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKEREN HASHVIIS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALWAYS OUR KIDS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKOLEL CHIBAS JERUSALEM: $625 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHASDEI YOSEF ↗
  • Who funds Bikur Vezrat Cholim Inc ↗
  • Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds A Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange ↗
  • Who funds TORAS IMECHA INC ↗
  • Who funds TOV VCHESED FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YAD ELKA INC ↗
  • Who funds TZEDUKAS HUIR INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA TORAS CHAIM INC ↗
  • Who funds BAIS YAAKOV MACHON ORA A NJ NON- PROFIT CORPORATION ↗

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.

The Ojc FundJack Adjmi Family Fou…Jewish Communal FundZichron Simcha DsassovThe Lexicon Foundatio…Md Friedman Family Fo…The Fishoff Family Fo…The Sorala FoundationZichron Chaim Charity…Greenzweig Family Fou…Moses and Miriam Voge…Regina Goldwasser Fou…
The Ojc FundNY78.7× affinity68 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Zichron Simcha Dsassov · The Lexicon Foundation Inc · Md Friedman Family Foundation · The Fishoff Family Foundation · The Sorala Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Greenzweig Family Foundation · Moses and Miriam Vogel Charitable Foundation Tr · Regina Goldwasser 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 David & Chaya Zahler Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David & Chaya Zahler Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Chevra Hatzolah of Linden: 27% of income from government
  • Toras Imecha Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Bnos Bracha Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Chai 4EVER Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
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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Find your warmest path to David & Chaya Zahler Foundation 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 218 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $3.4M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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