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Emes 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $111k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $490k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION OHEL YAAKOV | $135,000 |
| CONGREGATION ZICHRON SHLOMO | $105,000 |
| LEVUSHEI YEHUDA INC | $100,000 |
| UNITED MOSDOS TORAH VEYIRAH YERUSHLOYIM INC | $50,000 |
| MISHNAH SHELI | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| BINYAN YERUSHLAIM | $26,000 |
| THE OJC FUND | $25,000 |
| CONG BOBOV 45 | $18,000 |
| YESHIVA BIRCHAS HATORAH | $18,000 |
| KEREN OHR CHAIM | $13,500 |
| CONG MOSDOS TOLDOS AHARON | $10,000 |
| CONG TAMAR OF MONSEY | $6,000 |
| BNOS MENACHEM INC | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $400k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CZCONGREGATION ZICHRON SHLOMO3× · 2021–2024 · $554k
- PPaamonim3× · 2021–2023 · $389k · revenue +56%
- LYLEVUSHEI YEHUDA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $316k
Funded once
- COCONTRIBUTIONS OF 1706760 DETAILS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST ATone grant, 2017 · $1.7M
- COCONTRIBUTIONS OF 870210 DETAILS AVAILABLE UPON REQUESTone grant, 2018 · $870k
- COCONTRIBUTIONS OF 689741 DETAILS AVAILABLE UPON REQUESTone grant, 2019 · $690k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Religious Teaching
Religious School
To pursue a greater outreach of knowledge of the Jewish Torah and to further educate the less knowledgeable
We make grants to support orthodox jewish education.
To promote authentic orthodox judaisim by helping fund jewish causes worldwide.
Education and religious activities and research
Furtherance of jewish education
To promote torah study
To provide support to jewish religious education in israel and around the world, and provide financial assistance to and on behalf of yeshivah beth israel tifereth menachem.
To give grants to religious & educational institutions.
Assist talmudic studies and talmudic scholars with tslmudic research charity and assistance to underpriviliged community outreac
Tzidkas Binyamin is organized for charitable, religious and educational purposes, to assist Jewish orthodox institutions and needy individuals in need of financial aid.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ahavat Yisroel Humanity Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tomche Shabbos of Boro Park and Fla. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 59 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Paamonim ↗
- Who funds TZEDEK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds REFUAH HELPLINE INCDBA REFUAH RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds THE OJC FUND ↗
- Who funds TALMUD TORAH BAIS AVROHOM INC ↗
- Who funds TOMCHEI ISRAEL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · The Strasbourg Foundation · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · Care Support Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Fjc · Educational Support Foundation Inc · Guardian Family Foundation Inc · Strulovich Family Foundation Trust · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Emes Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mesorah Heritage Foundation — 1% of income from government
- The Aleph Institute Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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