Public charity
EMT Action Fund
The primary mission of the EMT ACTION FUND is to create a long term and sustainable model of jewish education and giving.
- $8.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 62
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 61%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $4.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 44
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $50M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 61% of the organizations EMT Action Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 74% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 61 | $4.2M | 46% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $2.1M | 61% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $1.0M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $1.2M | 72% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $575k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oiz Vehuder | $900,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Mosdos Kever Rachel Imeinu | $337,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Yeshiva Gedolah of the Five Towns Inc | $258,200 | 4 | n/a |
| Birchos Yitzchok Dbonhad | $254,900 | 4 | n/a |
| Keren Hayeshivot Trust | $254,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Torah Center For Higher Rabbinical Studies Inc | $225,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Ateret Ahron | $210,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Keren Olam Hatorah Inc | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Bais Shalom Inc | $135,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Brisker Yeshiva Inc | $125,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oiz Vehuder | $900,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Mosdos Kever Rachel Imeinu | $337,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Yeshiva Gedolah of the Five Towns Inc | $258,200 | 4 | n/a |
| Birchos Yitzchok Dbonhad | $254,900 | 4 | n/a |
| Keren Hayeshivot Trust | $254,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Torah Center For Higher Rabbinical Studies Inc | $225,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Ateret Ahron | $210,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Keren Olam Hatorah Inc | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Bais Shalom Inc | $135,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Brisker Yeshiva Inc | $125,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Hachaim Vehashalom Inc | $108,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Long Island Jewish Center | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America | $90,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Chabad of the Five Towns Inc | $90,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Yeshivas Birkas Sholom Inc | $90,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gateways Organization Inc | $88,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Jewish Inspiration Inc | $80,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Beth Medrash Govoha of America | $75,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Zichron Mattel Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Bnos Bais Yaakov of Far Rockaway | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Shor Yoshuv | $50,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Nishmas Hatorah Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Supporters of Torah Inc | $40,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Chai Lifeline Inc | $38,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Achiezer Community Resource Center Inc | $33,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Yeshiva Toras Chaim | $31,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Camp Morasha Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Stand for America Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Beis Medrash Heichal Dovid | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ofek Yehudi | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Congregation Aish Kodesh | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| My Extended Family Inc | $24,000 | 2 | 1% |
| American Friends of Koidenov Inc | $22,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Congregation Kehal Chasidy Chernobel | $20,850 | 1 | n/a |
| Traders4acause | $20,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Cong Beth Medrash Meor Yitzchok Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ohr Olam Corp | $18,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Aish Global Inc | $18,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Machon Yisrael Trust | $16,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chasdei Meshilam | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Our Place Inc | $13,600 | 1 | 56% |
| Institute for Jewish Continuity Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 40% |
| The Netzach Foundation Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chabad of Battery Park City Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Beth Medrash Zichron Tuvia | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Ahavas Tzdokah Vchesed Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Torah | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lakewood Kesher Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Bonei Olam Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Congregation Sfat Temmim | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Merkaz Jerusalem | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chizuk USA Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Friendship Circle Inc | $5,900 | 1 | 1% |
| Gesharim Inc | $5,400 | 1 | 8% |
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
EMT Action Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Maalot · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · Cross River Community Foundation · The Jmg Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Astar Foundation Inc · Alyad Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Otzar Hachesed Foundation Trust
How this is measured
About EMT Action Fund
- How much does EMT Action Fund give?
- EMT Action Fund reported 62 itemized grants totaling $4,175,590, out of $8,232,239 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 44 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does EMT Action Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (88%), Philanthropy (8%), Civil Rights (1%).
- Who are EMT Action Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Oiz Vehuder ($900k), Mosdos Kever Rachel Imeinu ($337k), Yeshiva Gedolah of the Five Towns Inc ($258k).
- Does EMT Action Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as EMT Action Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Maalot.
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