· Private foundation
Joseph and Martha Melohn Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL CHAIM | $1,400 |
| CONG ADAS YEREIM | $500 |
| BAIS MEDRASH OHR CHAIM | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| WESTSIDE KOLLEL | $500 |
| YESHIVA BAIS MIKROH | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $400 |
| CONG ZICHRON MORDCHAI SHLOMO | $300 |
| KUPATH RAMBAHN KOLEL POLIN | $300 |
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 (FY20–21, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% 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
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 +52% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN INC4× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +102%
- YOYESHIVA OHAVEI TORAH OF RIVERDALE INC2× · 2021–2022 · $28k · revenue +9%
- YCYAD CHAYA INC2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- HEHATZOLAH EMERGENCY AIR RESPONSE TEAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $180k · revenue ×141
- AFAmerican Friends of Ramot Torah Schoolsone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -39%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $100k
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 School
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.
To provide financial assistance to jewish educational and charitable causes.
To provide secondary high school education in Brooklyn, NY
Provide financial assistance to needy individuals, and to religious, educational, and charitable organizations in us and abroad.
Provide college level education and extensive background of jewish law and talmudic studies and rabbinical ordination.
A jewish secondary school which seeks to inculcate its students with high character and religious values to produce future religious leaders
To further jewish education in israel
To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 106 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 HATZOLAH EMERGENCY AIR RESPONSE TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Ramot Torah Schools ↗
- Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE OJC FUND ↗
- Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA OHAVEI TORAH OF RIVERDALE INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA KTANA OF PASSAIC ↗
- Who funds YAD CHAYA INC ↗
- Who funds DONORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HINENI INC ↗
- Who funds OUR PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND 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 · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Joseph and Martha Melohn Tzedaka Fund · The Ohr Hakotel Foundation · The Fishoff Family Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Nathan and Marilyn Silberman Fdn · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Yale Fishman Family Foundation · The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joseph and Martha Melohn Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph and Martha Melohn Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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