· Private foundation
Jacob Herzka Charitable Trust Foundation
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
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $482k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE DONORS FUND | $115,000 |
| Congregation Chomas Yehoshua | $112,000 |
| YESHIVAS RADIN | $111,500 |
| VARIOUS CHARITIES | $82,300 |
| EIN OD MILVADO | $61,000 |
| CONG ZICHRON YISROEL | $17,800 |
| CONG BAIS HALEVY | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +49% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YOYESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM INC3× · 2017–2023 · $39k · revenue +17%
- KEKEREN EZER LNEFESH2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +184%
- BTBAIS TOVA INC2× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- RCRabinical College of Telzstoneone grant, 2019 · $504k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $23k
- NHNOAM HATALMUDone grant, 2018 · $20k
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.
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
Cheder toras zev operates a parochial grade school in lakewood, new jersey.
The purpose of this organization is to support indigent torah scholars and their families by providing stipends and additional funds at jewish holiday times.
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
Operation of a parochial elementary school, providing education services to students
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary and high school aged children.
Religious Teaching
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 43 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 YESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM INC ↗
- Who funds KEREN EZER LNEFESH ↗
- Who funds AHAVAS TORAH V'CHESED ↗
- Who funds ZICHRON ELIYAHU INC ↗
- Who funds ORAYSA INC ↗
- Who funds AHAVAS TZEDAKA INC ↗
- Who funds LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BAIS TOVA INC ↗
- Who funds Zichron Mattel 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 · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · Donors Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · The Sorala Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Erwin & Ruth Zafir Foundation Inc · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Trinc It Charity Inc · David Rosenbaum Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jacob Herzka Charitable Trust Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jacob Herzka Charitable Trust Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bais Tova Inc: 7% of income from government
- Yeshiva Orchos Chaim Inc: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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