New York · Private foundation
Erwin & Ruth Zafir 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.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2024
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $8,567
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $180,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 112
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 37% of the organizations Erwin & Ruth Zafir Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k 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 | 52 | $1.2M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $1.1M | 37% |
| FY2022 | 60 | $1.8M | 47% |
| FY2021 | 72 | $1.4M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 95 | $1.2M | 75% |
| FY2017 | 112 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yeshiva Meor Enaim | $906,400 | 6 | n/a |
| Yeshivath Torah Vodaath | $248,980 | 4 | n/a |
| Shekel Hakodesh | $130,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Shuvu Return Inc | $92,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Mikvah Yisroel | $86,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Misaskim Corp | $83,900 | 5 | 1% |
| Bonei Olam Inc | $61,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Bais Tova Inc | $57,500 | 4 | 0% |
| American Friends of Refuah Vchaim Inc | $53,250 | 4 | 5% |
| Tiferes Devorah Lkallah Inc | $50,200 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yeshiva Meor Enaim | $906,400 | 6 | n/a |
| Yeshivath Torah Vodaath | $248,980 | 4 | n/a |
| Shekel Hakodesh | $130,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Shuvu Return Inc | $92,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Mikvah Yisroel | $86,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Misaskim Corp | $83,900 | 5 | 1% |
| Bonei Olam Inc | $61,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Bais Tova Inc | $57,500 | 4 | 0% |
| American Friends of Refuah Vchaim Inc | $53,250 | 4 | 5% |
| Tiferes Devorah Lkallah Inc | $50,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Keren Hashviis Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Global Center of Skver | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Renewal of Life Inc | $47,800 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of Tiferet Tzion Inc | $38,000 | 3 | 1% |
| A Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange | $34,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Zichron Menachem | $31,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ahavas Chesed | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Jewish Center for Special Education | $27,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Sholom Shachna | $23,560 | 6 | n/a |
| Vaad Ltzorchay Refuah | $20,525 | 5 | 4% |
| Ahavas Yisroel | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Tiferes Shmuel | $18,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Beth Jacob of Boro Park | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Karlsburg | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tomche Shabbos of Boro Park and Fla | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mishkan Hachesed Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Emek Halacha | $9,000 | 4 | n/a |
| American Friends of Chaim Layeled | $8,600 | 2 | 2% |
| Nachlas Yitzchok | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Project Witness | $7,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Kollel Vasikin Verashbi | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Akim USA Inc | $5,800 | 2 | 5% |
| Cong Bais Moshe Inc | $5,200 | 3 | n/a |
| American Friends of Yeshiva of Kodshim | $5,100 | 1 | 0% |
| Kollel Beir Menachem | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Gates of Mercy | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kupas Yom Tov Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Keren Yisroel | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vaad L-Hachnusas Orchim Inc | $4,660 | 3 | n/a |
| Congregation Zichron Moshe Inc | $4,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Zichron Avot | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Share of New Square Inc Dba Chesed 247 | $3,600 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of Refuainu | $3,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Emergency Aid Fund | $3,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Cong Avi Ezri Inc | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cong Ohel Torah | $2,836 | 2 | n/a |
| Beis Yesocher Tiferes Aryeh | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Keren Chasanim Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Khal Zichron Aryeh Leib Inc | $2,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of Aderes Hatorah Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Keren Even Habochen Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Yeshiva Shvilay Hatalmud | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kollel Torah Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cheshkas Hatorah Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Ezras Yisroel | $1,940 | 2 | n/a |
| Ahavas Tzedokos Corp | $1,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Zichron Mattel Inc | $1,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia | $1,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Tomchei Shabos | $1,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Tiferes Yisroel Inc | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Zichron Shlomo | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Shalom Torah Centers | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Bikur Cholim of Lakewood Inc | $1,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Camp Hasc Inc | $1,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Ohr Nosson Inc | $1,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Services for Children With Hidden Intelligence | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Zichron Eliyahu Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Re-Lief Corp | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation K Hal Yereim | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Keren Hachesed of Monsey Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kumi Uri USA | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mesivta Ohr Chaim Meir Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Tiferes Boruch | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cong Shaarei Chesed | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Eim Leah Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Congregation Yl South 8 | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tova Uvrucha Inc | $920 | 1 | n/a |
| She Erit Ezra Inc | $720 | 1 | n/a |
| Chicago Community Kollel Inc | $720 | 1 | n/a |
| Ahavas Tzedaka Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Keren Zichron Menachem | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Zichron Yisroel Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Cong Tiferes Yakov Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Ateres Bunos | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Chaim V Chesed | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Bnot Chaya Academy Corp | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 195 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Erwin & Ruth Zafir Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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 · Donors Fund Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · The Sorala Foundation · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Communal Fund · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · The Fishoff Family Foundation · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation
How this is measured
About Erwin & Ruth Zafir Foundation Inc
- How much does Erwin & Ruth Zafir Foundation Inc give?
- Erwin & Ruth Zafir Foundation Inc reported 55 grants totaling $1,414,684 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 112 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Erwin & Ruth Zafir Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (47%), Education (28%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are Erwin & Ruth Zafir Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Yeshiva Meor Enaim ($906k), Yeshivath Torah Vodaath ($249k), Shekel Hakodesh ($130k).
- Does Erwin & Ruth Zafir Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Erwin & Ruth Zafir Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Erwin & Ruth Zafir Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Donors Fund Inc, Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Erwin & Ruth Zafir Foundation Inc based?
- Erwin & Ruth Zafir Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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