· Private foundation
Fogel Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
79% of Fogel Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Donors Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Fogel Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $50k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k5 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rav Shayala's Kitchen | $15,000 |
| Cheder Toras Zev | $13,000 |
| Beth Abba Trust | $6,800 |
| Lakewood Cheder School | $5,000 |
| Yeshiva Torah Vodaath | $5,000 |
| CONG AHAVAS TZEDAKA VCHESED | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CTCHEDER TORAS ZEV4× · 2020–2023 · $91k · revenue +57%
- LCLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC4× · 2018–2022 · $50k · revenue +54%
- BABETH ABA TRUST6× · 2017–2023 · $41k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $15k
- AFAmer Frieds of Zichron Eliyahu Incone grant, 2018 · $10k
- BMBais Medrash Ohr Chaimone grant, 2019 · $8k
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.
Provide a building for a religious school.
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
Religious School
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
A post-secondary school offering an educational program in talmudic study
Provide college level education and extensive background of jewish law and talmudic studies and rabbinical ordination.
Yeshiva toras aron is a religious elementary school providing quality education for grades k-8 for the children of lakewood nj.
To support schools of religious studies.
To expand torah education
Education
Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 31 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 DONORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHEDER TORAS ZEV ↗
- Who funds LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ABA TRUST ↗
- Who funds Reb Shayalas Kitchen ↗
- Who funds Mosdos Rabbainu Nachum Meshadyk ↗
- Who funds KOLLEL CHAZON ISH ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA TIFERES BORUCH ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA RUACH HATORAH INC ↗
- Who funds Keren Acheinu Bnei Yisroel Inc ↗
- Who funds MENUCHA U'KEDUSHA INC ↗
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 · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · The Setton Foundation · Toras Chesed Inc · The Adjmi-Dwek Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Donors Fund Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fogel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fogel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cheder Toras Zev: 22% of income from government
- Yeshiva Tiferes Boruch: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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