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Gates of Zion Inc

To raise funds for jewish education for higher learning for both men and women.

$5.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$274k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$898kInternational$247kFood & Nutrition$109kEducation$22kPhilanthropy$5k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $518,265, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,169,458 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,651,193 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $142k
  • $250k+1 grant · $274k
$35,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$84k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER BETH HATZLACHA INC$273,565
OHR HATORAH$141,500
CHONEN VNOSEN$35,000
ISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC$33,000
YOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLISWOOD$30,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KEHILAT NOFEI HASHEMESH INC$5,200
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KEHILAT NOFEI HASHEMESH INC: $5k → 6%YOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLISWOOD: $30k → 13%YESHIVAT NACHLAT HALVIIM TRUST: $8k → 17%GREATER BETH HATZLACHA INC: $274k → 20%OHR HATORAH: $142k → 7%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMAT BEIT SHEMESH: $166k → 11%ISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC: $40k → 12%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT: $6k → 17%GREATER BETH HATZLACHA INC: $178k → 20%OHR HATORAH: $109k → 7%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMAT BEIT SHEMESH: $67k → 11%ISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC: $33k → 12%CHONEN VNOSEN: $35k → 20%OHR HATORAH: $20k → 7%CONGREGATION TIFERES YAAKOV: $24k → 11%ISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC: $27k → 12%CHONEN VNOSEN: $35k → 20%YESHIVA OHR HATORAH: $7k → 7%DARCHEI NOACH OUTREACH: $6k → 11%ISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC: $10k → 12%CHONEN VNOSEN: $31k → 20%YESHIVA OHR HATORAH: $15k → 7%OHR TORAH INC: $8k → 20%OHR TORAH INC: $8k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Grants abroad, by region: $4.6M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions, $4.4M to organizations and $259k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Middle East and North Africa$4.4M · 94% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM EXPENSE

Student Grants$259k · 6% · 90 people
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 7 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against -38% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$1.2M
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
-38%

Still filing today

71%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalReligionPhilanthropyEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OH
    Ohr Hatorah
    3× · 2022–2024 · $270k · revenue +1%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMAT BET SHEMESH INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $233k · revenue +9%
  • IF
    ISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC CO MR AVI SCHOEMANN
    4× · 2021–2024 · $109k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • CT
    CONGREGATION TIFERES YAAKOV
    one grant, 2022 · $24k
  • YN
    YESHIVAT NACHLAT HALVIIM TRUST
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -38%
  • DN
    DARKEI NOACH OUTREACH INC
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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3
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
4
Sherit Isroel
—
5
Ohr HaTorah

To raise and distribute funds to support educational programs and institutions in Israel.

Education
6
American Friends of Hamesorah Talmud Torah Inc

Charity and education in u.s. and israel

—
7
Ohr Yisrael Yeshiva Inc

Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.

Religion
8
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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9
Kollel Nefesh Hachaim Inc
Education
10
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
11
Tal Hashamayim Foundation
Religion
12
Ziv Israel Association
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ohr Torah Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER BETH HATZLACHA INC: $451,165 · OtherGREATER BETH HATZLACHA INCCHONEN VNOSEN: $101,200 · OtherCHONEN VNOSENNATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAEL: $30,000 · OtherCONGREGATION TIFERES YAAKOV: $24,000 · Other+1 more: $5,800 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMAT BET SHEMESH INC: $232,857 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMAT BET …ISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC CO MR AVI SCHOEMANN: $109,400 · InternationalISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC C…+1 more: $7,820 · InternationalOhr Hatorah: $270,000 · ReligionOhr HatorahOHR TORAH INC: $15,820 · ReligionOHR TORAH INCYESHIVAS OHR HATORAH INC: $21,800 · EducationPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $6,238 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KEHILLAT NOFEI HASHEMESH INC: $5,200 · Philanthropy
Other$612,165International$350,077Religion$285,820Education$21,800Philanthropy$11,438

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOhr Hatorah: $270,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMAT BET SHEMESH INC: $232,857 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC CO MR AVI SCHOEMANN: $109,400 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetYESHIVAS OHR HATORAH INC: $21,800 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOHR TORAH INC: $15,820 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetYESHIVAT NACHLAT HALVIIM TRUST: $7,820 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $6,238 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KEHILLAT NOFEI HASHEMESH INC: $5,200 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Ojc FundJewish Community Foun…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY20.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gates of Zion Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gates of Zion Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Yeshivas Ohr Hatorah Inc: 28% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Gates of Zion Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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