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Kaya Cares Foundation at a glance

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Kaya Cares Foundation

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.

$41k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$97kRecreation & Sports$32kAnimals$12kEducation$5kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $36k
$36,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$788k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL$36,000
TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $32k → 6%JEWISH FEDERATION MINNEAPOLIS: $20k → 11%FACTS AND LOGIC ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST INC: $360 → 10%TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $36k → 17%US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $2k → 14%ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 11%JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $36k → 17%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES: $4k → 14%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25k → 17%HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INC: $4k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

1
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
2
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
3
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
4
Hostage Aid Worldwide Inc

Hostage aid's mission is to assist hostages and unlawful detainees and their families by providing insights on their cases and coordination with governments & un bodies, as well as strategies to disrupt the hostage business model and the…

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
6
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
7
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…

International
8
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
9
Sherit Isroel
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10
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
11
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
12
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Agency for Israel - North American Council; the most unlike its peers is Facts and Logic About the Middle East Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $72,000 · InternationalJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCI…+1 more: $360 · InternationalUNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $32,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED HEROES LEAGUEPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOW…Individual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual gr…Humane World for Animals Inc: $7,200 · AnimalsAnimal Humane Society: $5,000 · AnimalsSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,800 · Arts & Culture
International$72,360Recreation & Sports$32,000Philanthropy$25,000Other$20,000Animals$12,200Education$5,000Arts & Culture$1,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $72,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $32,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $7,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Humane Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFACTS AND LOGIC ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST INC: $360 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kaya Cares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kaya Cares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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 9 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-PF 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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