New York · Private foundation
Joseph and Martha Melohn Tzedaka Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $52k
- Granted FY2023
- 15
- Grants FY2023
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 87%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
54% of Joseph and Martha Melohn Tzedaka Fund’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Ojc Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Joseph and Martha Melohn Tzedaka Fund named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $52k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $18,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 2
- Total assets, FY2023
- $5.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 87% of the organizations Joseph and Martha Melohn Tzedaka Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 74% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 15 | $52k | 87% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $137k | 93% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $223k | 85% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $273k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congregation Masores Hachinuch Inc | $900,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Yeshiva of Spring Valley Inc | $275,000 | 1 | n/a |
| West Side Kollel Torah Center | $125,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Yeshiva Dmir Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan | $58,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshivat Ohel Torah | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bais Medrash of Haverstraw | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Monsey Shidduch Initiative Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewish Conference and Retreat Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 31 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congregation Masores Hachinuch Inc | $900,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Yeshiva of Spring Valley Inc | $275,000 | 1 | n/a |
| West Side Kollel Torah Center | $125,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Yeshiva Dmir Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan | $58,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshivat Ohel Torah | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bais Medrash of Haverstraw | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Monsey Shidduch Initiative Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewish Conference and Retreat Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kollel Zichron Shneur Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Mesifta Beth Shraga | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yad Chaya Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Organization for the Furtherance of Traditional Ideals | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Adas Yereim | $3,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Chabad Lubavitch of the West Side Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Bikur Cholim of Manhattan Inc | $2,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Congregation Ohav Sholom | $1,700 | 3 | n/a |
| Committee for the Rescue of Israel Babies DBA Efrat | $1,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Kehilas Bais Avrohom | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewish Women's Club Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Our Place Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 4% |
| National Council of Young Israel | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gemach Zichron Moshe Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| West Side Hatzoloh | $400 | 1 | n/a |
| Koznitz Congregation-Avodas Yisroel Inc | $400 | 2 | n/a |
| American Friends of Peace of Mind Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| The Beis Inc | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $18 | 1 | 0% |
| Zaka | $18 | 1 | n/a |
| Guardians of the Sick Inc | $2 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($573k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joseph and Martha Melohn Tzedaka Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 · Joseph and Martha Melohn Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ohr Hakotel Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Yr Foundation Trust · Gottesman Family Foundation · The Lyons Family Foundation · The R & D Foundation Inc · Jeannette and H Peter Kriendler Char Trust · The Chestnut Foundation
How this is measured
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About Joseph and Martha Melohn Tzedaka Fund
- How much does Joseph and Martha Melohn Tzedaka Fund give?
- Joseph and Martha Melohn Tzedaka Fund reported 15 grants totaling $51,930 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Joseph and Martha Melohn Tzedaka Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (63%), Philanthropy (35%), Human Services (0%).
- Who are Joseph and Martha Melohn Tzedaka Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Congregation Masores Hachinuch Inc ($900k), Yeshiva of Spring Valley Inc ($275k), West Side Kollel Torah Center ($125k).
- Does Joseph and Martha Melohn Tzedaka Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 87% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joseph and Martha Melohn Tzedaka Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph and Martha Melohn Tzedaka Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Joseph and Martha Melohn Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Joseph and Martha Melohn Tzedaka Fund based?
- Joseph and Martha Melohn Tzedaka Fund is based in NY.
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