How much does Joseph D and Chaya Cohen Torah Fund give?

Joseph D and Chaya Cohen Torah Fund reported 5 grants totaling $12,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Joseph D and Chaya Cohen Torah Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (94%), Education (3%), Human Services (0%).

Who are Joseph D and Chaya Cohen Torah Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Friends of Ohel Moshe ($183k), Kolel Shary Limud ($40k), Keren Torah Vchesed ($24k).

Does Joseph D and Chaya Cohen Torah Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Joseph D and Chaya Cohen Torah Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph D and Chaya Cohen Torah Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Mahir & Helene Reiss Foundation.

Where is Joseph D and Chaya Cohen Torah Fund based?

Joseph D and Chaya Cohen Torah Fund is based in NJ.

Joseph D and Chaya Cohen Torah Fund

Joseph D and Chaya Cohen Torah Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

Joseph D and Chaya Cohen Torah Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$12k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$6k

Largest

01What it funds

0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$474kEducation$16kHuman Services$3kSocial Science$1kHealth$1kOther$0

02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF AMSHINOV YESHIVA	$5,500
EZRAT ISRAEL	$2,500
KOLLEL SHARY LIMUD	$2,000
KEREN HATZEDOKA	$1,000
YESHIVA SHEARITH HAPLETAH	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$471k · 10 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$471k

$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%

-5%

Still filing today

30%

24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OHEL MOSHE
5× · 2017–2021 · $183k · revenue -78% · 87% of their budget
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF AMSHINOV YESHIVA
9× · 2017–2025 · $147k
KS
KOLEL SHARY LIMUD
9× · 2017–2025 · $40k

Funded once

MT
MESIVTA TIERETH ISRAEL OF RIZHIN
one grant, 2017 · $4k
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MOSDOS HAKEREM INC
one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -46%
YN
YESHIVAS NOVOMINSK
one grant, 2017 · $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.

04Its field

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.

American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah

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Gemilas Chesed Kramer Inc

Philanthropy

Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation

Philanthropy

Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship

Religion

Mishken Chaim Rivnits

Assistance to the indigent

Religion

Bnei Moshe

Philanthropy

Keren Avraham Shmuel Inc Wachman

Philanthropy

Zichron Moshe Elihu Tzedoka Fund

Philanthropy

Ahavas Torah V'chesed

Philanthropy

American Friends of Tzir Hemed

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Mosdot Goor; the most unlike its peers is Keren Torah Vchesed. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 38 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/11

Grantees still filing

5/11

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$486,000Education$16,000Human Services$1,500Community Improvement$1,000Health$1,000

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.

The Ojc FundNY22.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Mahir & Helene Reiss Foundation · George & Adele Klein Family Foundation · Terumah Foundation Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joseph D and Chaya Cohen Torah Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph D and Chaya Cohen Torah Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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