· 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.
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 $10k30 grants · $151k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $317k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $947k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $180,000 |
| YESHIVA MEOR EYNAYIM | $146,600 |
| AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA | $115,500 |
| BMG | $115,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $96,000 |
| THE DONORS FUND | $75,450 |
| MIKVAH YISROEL | $68,000 |
| CONG SHOMER SHABBOS | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| SARA BROKER HACNOSAS KALLAH | $50,000 |
| YESHIVA TORAH VODAATH | $44,330 |
| Individual grant recipient | $43,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| VARIOUS DONATIONS (ADDRESS AVAILABLE UPON REQUESTED) | $28,392 |
| Individual grant recipient | $26,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $234k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
68 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 20 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $427k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SRSHUVU RETURN INC6× · 2017–2024 · $92k · revenue +13%
- MCMISASKIM CORP5× · 2017–2023 · $84k · revenue +34%
- BOBonei Olam Inc3× · 2021–2023 · $61k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $234k
- SSQUAREone grant, 2022 · $100k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIRYAT ARBAone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
Religious Teaching
Provides finacial assistance to needy individuals and to religious, charitable organizations
Jewish Observance of Shabbos, Chagim, Torah Learning
Assistance to the indigent
How this is measured
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 286 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
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
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Erwin & Ruth Zafir Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Erwin & Ruth Zafir Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bais Tova Inc: 7% of income from government
- Yeshiva Tiferes Boruch: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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