· Private foundation
Gemsy Zay 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 $10k97 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BHOH- BAIS HAKNESSES OHR HACHAIM | $26,000 |
| TALMUDICAL ACADEMY | $15,875 |
| AGUDATH ISRAEL OF GREENSPRING | $10,865 |
| AGUDATH ISRAEL CHARITY FUND | $5,838 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOIDENOV INC | $5,430 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,398 |
| THE CHESED FUND | $3,448 |
| KUPAT TZEDAKA OF BEITAR | $2,500 |
| MOSDOS BOTOSHAM | $2,500 |
| TIFERES YAAKOV | $2,250 |
| BAIS MEDRASH & MESIVTA OF BALTIMORE | $2,200 |
| CHILD LIFE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| MOSDOS NESIVOS SHALOM | $1,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,600 |
| GEMILAS CHESED | $1,600 |
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, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
210 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2024, 151 since wound down; 40 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAmerican Friends of Koidenov Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $23k · revenue +10%
- CLCHILD LIFE SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +65%
- YEYAD EZRA4× · 2020–2023 · $7k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MIRone grant, 2022 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $4k
- YEYad Ezraone grant, 2019 · $2k
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
Religious School
Provide support to further jewish education
Support of religious schools in Israel
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
Education
How this is measured
53 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. 53 of the 395 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 Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Ojc Fund · Gutman Family Foundation Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Tzedakah Fund · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · The Jmg Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Sorala Foundation · The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gemsy Zay Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gemsy Zay Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mesoras Hatorah Inc: 11% of income from government
- Yeshiva Nesivos Hatorah Inc: 3% of income from government
- Jewels School Inc: 2% of income from government
- Oorah Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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