· Public charity
Foundation for the Preservation & Perpetuation of Torah Laws & Customs
Supervision and processing of "cholov yisroel" products and delivery to distributing organizations.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of Foundation for the Preservation & Perpetuation of Torah Laws & Customs’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 40 grants below total $645,880 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $902,183 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $256,303 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $414k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Congregation Sons of Israel | $126,000 |
| Birchas Mordechai | $45,250 |
| Ner Israel Rabbinical College | $42,560 |
| Agudath Israel of Baltimore | $30,000 |
| Bais Yaakov School for Girls | $28,700 |
| Torah Institute of Baltimore | $25,300 |
| Beth Medrash Govoha | $23,000 |
| Birkat Yitzchak | $20,000 |
| Torah Prep School of St Louis | $17,180 |
| Airmont Community Education I | $17,000 |
| Bais Medrash Toras Chesed | $15,000 |
| Yeshiva of Far Rockaway | $15,000 |
| Shearith Israel Congregation | $15,000 |
| Yeshivath Beth Moshe | $14,000 |
| Mesivta Shaarei Chaim | $12,500 |
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 (FY23–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +59% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 12 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIRCHAS MORDECHAI8× · 2017–2024 · $437k · revenue +47%
- BMBAIS MEDRASH TORAS CHESED INC8× · 2017–2024 · $109k · revenue +168%
- TCTORAH CENTER-MIDWEST INC6× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- ASALVIN S MINTZES HATZALAH OF BALTIMORE INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -25%
- DIDIALOGUE INCone grant, 2023 · $9k
- MCMEKOR CHAIM INCone grant, 2023 · $8k
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
Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.
To operate a high school offering religious instruction and general studies as well as a post high school program of talmudic studies. the school shall be run under the standards of orthodox jewish law and tradition.
To provide religious Jewish education.
Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva Ktana of Passaic and the most unlike its peers is Baltimore Wedding Initiative Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 64 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIRCHAS MORDECHAI ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY ↗
- Who funds BAIS MEDRASH TORAS CHESED INC ↗
- Who funds TORAH CENTER-MIDWEST INC ↗
- Who funds COORDINATING COUNCIL FOR THE JEWISH HOMELAND INC ↗
- Who funds GEMACH CHESSED INC ↗
- Who funds KEREN YEHOSHUA V'YISROEL ↗
- Who funds RABBI CHAIM KOWALSKY MEMORIAL AHAVAS YISRAEL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TORAS MOSHE ↗
- Who funds KEREN HASHVIIS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH LEARNING EXPERIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR DAYANIM ↗
- Who funds JEWELS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Simchas Esther Hachnosas Kalla Fund INC ↗
- Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE WOMANS NETWORK FOR SINGLE PARENTS ↗
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: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ojc Fund · The Adar Foundation · The Tzedakah Fund · The Hackerman Foundation Inc · Crane Family Foundation Inc · The Jmg Foundation · Volosov Family Foundation Inc · Gutman Family Foundation Inc · Netzach Foundation
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 Foundation for the Preservation & Perpetuation of Torah Laws & Customs 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.
- Bais Tova Inc — 7% of income from government
- Jewels School Inc — 2% 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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