· Private foundation
Davood and Tamara Zar Family Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $51k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UMCJA | $674,302 |
| KEREN YAD SHMUEL VE TAMAR | $328,500 |
| YESHIVA KOL YAAKOV | $17,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,680 |
| CHABAD OF GREAT NECK | $11,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| TOMCHEI SHABBOS OF QUEENS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOL YEHUDA | $360 |
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 (FY17–19, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.
How this is measured
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 +54% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KYKEREN YAD SHMUEL VE TAMAR3× · 2022–2024 · $633k · revenue +516% · 85% of their budget
- TITSQ INC7× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +103%
- CLCHAI LIFELINE INC2× · 2018–2022 · $3k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- STSHAARE TORA LEARNING CENTERone grant, 2018 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
To further jewish education in israel
Support of religious schools in Israel
To provide grants to jewish religious organization in need.
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
Charity
To pursue a greater outreach of knowledge of the Jewish Torah and to further educate the less knowledgeable
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.
To support the israel charitable educational institution shlavim.
Provide support to further jewish education
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 78 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 KEREN YAD SHMUEL VE TAMAR ↗
- Who funds IRANIAN AMERICAN JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds TSQ INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Chabad Vietnam Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YEKERAI YERUSHALAIM ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Ch Foundation · Bnei Binyamin & Rivka Kalaty Charitable Foundation Inc · Benny & Kathrin Namdar Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Davood and Tamara Zar Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Davood and Tamara Zar Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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