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Hands on Tzedakah Inc

To reach out to individuals in need by supporting programs that fall below the radar screen of traditional funding. The organization collaborates with people who dedicate themselves to helping others. The organization is a partner in programs where our funding serves to make a profound difference in peoples lives.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Itemized grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$259k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$30,777
Largest grant, FY2025
$96,115
Organizations funded a year
11 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$2.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Hands on Tzedakah Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$259k13%
FY202411$299k0%
FY202312$320k8%
FY202216$345k19%
FY202115$326k7%
FY202018$400k17%
FY201916$331k6%
FY201816$371k31%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$1.1MHealth$538kYouth Development$238kFood & Nutrition$236kInternational$203kPhilanthropy$175kReligion$120kRecreation & Sports$106kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
MI
NY
NJ
KY
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ruth & Norman Rales Jewish Family Services Inc$935,52891%
Milagro Foundation Inc$219,24483%
American Association of Caregiving Youth Inc$194,11993%
Sweet Dream Makers Inc$175,16763%
Just Imagine$143,500935%
Mae Volen Senior Center Inc$139,56680%
Matanya's Hope$125,21585%
Boca Helping Hands Inc$116,39360%
New Jersey Pediatric Patients Charitable Trust Fund Inc$103,651633%
Bnai Torah Congregation$103,0591n/a
Show all 29 grantees
All grantees of Hands on Tzedakah Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ruth & Norman Rales Jewish Family Services Inc$935,52891%
Milagro Foundation Inc$219,24483%
American Association of Caregiving Youth Inc$194,11993%
Sweet Dream Makers Inc$175,16763%
Just Imagine$143,500935%
Mae Volen Senior Center Inc$139,56680%
Matanya's Hope$125,21585%
Boca Helping Hands Inc$116,39360%
New Jersey Pediatric Patients Charitable Trust Fund Inc$103,651633%
Bnai Torah Congregation$103,0591n/a
Caridad Center Inc$99,76160%
Fiver Children's Foundation Inc$94,44451%
Camp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc$92,03371%
Adolph & Rose Levis Jewish Community Center Inc$78,96870%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc$76,43840%
Mercado Global Inc$59,28341%
Project Ezra$57,08053%
Rose Art Foundation Inc$48,872460%
Martin County Special Needs Training Inc$42,5202n/a
St Gregorys Episcopal Church Inc$27,3082n/a
Jarc$17,33510%
Hillel of Broward and Palm Beach Inc$16,95021%
World of Change$15,53124%
Fresh Air Society$14,00010%
St James City Civic Association Inc$12,5001n/a
Education Foundation of Palm Beach County Inc$10,00010%
American Friends of Sheba Medical Center Tel Hashomer Inc$10,0001n/a
Feeding South Florida Inc$6,50010%
Western Kentucky University$5,8541n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Hands on Tzedakah Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRuth & Norman Rales Jewish Family Services Inc: $935,528 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetMilagro Foundation Inc: $219,244 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetAmerican Association of Caregiving Youth Inc: $194,119 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetSweet Dream Makers Inc: $175,167 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetJust Imagine: $143,500 over 9y, 35% of budgetMae Volen Senior Center Inc: $139,566 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMatanya's Hope: $125,215 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetBoca Helping Hands Inc: $116,393 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNew Jersey Pediatric Patients Charitable Trust Fund Inc: $103,651 over 6y, 33% of budgetCaridad Center Inc: $99,761 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFiver Children's Foundation Inc: $94,444 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCamp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc: $92,033 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetAdolph & Rose Levis Jewish Community Center Inc: $78,968 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $76,438 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMercado Global Inc: $59,283 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetProject Ezra: $57,080 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetRose Art Foundation Inc: $48,872 over 4y, 60% of budgetJarc: $17,335 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHillel of Broward and Palm Beach Inc: $16,950 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWorld of Change: $15,531 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetFresh Air Society: $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEducation Foundation of Palm Beach County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding South Florida Inc: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Boca West Children's Foundation Fka Boca West Community Charitable FoundationFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boca West Children's Foundation Fka Boca West Community Charitable Foundation · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Hands on Tzedakah Inc

How much does Hands on Tzedakah Inc give?
Hands on Tzedakah Inc reported 8 itemized grants totaling $259,281, out of $1,985,005 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Hands on Tzedakah Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Health (18%), Youth Development (8%).
Who are Hands on Tzedakah Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ruth & Norman Rales Jewish Family Services Inc ($936k), Milagro Foundation Inc ($219k), American Association of Caregiving Youth Inc ($194k).
Does Hands on Tzedakah Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hands on Tzedakah Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boca West Children's Foundation Fka Boca West Community Charitable Foundation, The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc, Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation.
Where is Hands on Tzedakah Inc based?
Hands on Tzedakah Inc is based in FL.

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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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