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Keren Tikvah 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.

$115k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
23%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,928
Organizations funded a year
12 to 21
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$386k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Keren Tikvah Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$115k39%
FY202313$97k23%
FY202212$93k0%
FY202113$84k38%
FY202015$92k7%
FY201921$182k43%
FY201817$163k47%
FY201716$112kn/a
71% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$261kPhilanthropy$239kInternational$113kHealth$66kHuman Services$40kEducation$19kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ezrat Israel Inc$145,3308n/a
Central Fund of Israel$67,76550%
Ezer Mizion$48,69070%
Bikur Vezrat Cholim Inc$19,80041%
Congregation Gemach Chasdei Moishe$17,0001n/a
Chai Lifeline Inc$15,00020%
The Ne'Eman Foundation$12,5001n/a
Tomchei Tzedaka Corp$7,11030%
Minchas Asher Foundation$3,33510%
American Friends of Bimad Alon Moreh Inc$2,50011%
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All grantees of Keren Tikvah Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ezrat Israel Inc$145,3308n/a
Central Fund of Israel$67,76550%
Ezer Mizion$48,69070%
Bikur Vezrat Cholim Inc$19,80041%
Congregation Gemach Chasdei Moishe$17,0001n/a
Chai Lifeline Inc$15,00020%
The Ne'Eman Foundation$12,5001n/a
Tomchei Tzedaka Corp$7,11030%
Minchas Asher Foundation$3,33510%
American Friends of Bimad Alon Moreh Inc$2,50011%
America Gives Inc$2,16010%
American Friends of Panim El Panim Inc$2,10011%
Keren Refua Shlema Inc$2,0001n/a
Help for Hope$1,2001n/a
Keren Mugein Imoisheya$1,2001n/a
Rav Chesed$1,0801n/a
Paamonim$1,06010%

Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($588k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Keren Tikvah Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $67,765 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEzer Mizion: $48,690 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBikur Vezrat Cholim Inc: $19,800 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetChai Lifeline Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTomchei Tzedaka Corp: $7,110 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMinchas Asher Foundation: $3,335 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of Bimad Alon Moreh Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAmerica Gives Inc: $2,160 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Panim El Panim Inc: $2,100 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPaamonim: $1,060 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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 FundNY14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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About Keren Tikvah Foundation

How much does Keren Tikvah Foundation give?
Keren Tikvah Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $115,159 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Keren Tikvah Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (28%), Philanthropy (25%), International (12%).
Who are Keren Tikvah Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ezrat Israel Inc ($145k), Central Fund of Israel ($68k), Ezer Mizion ($49k).
Does Keren Tikvah Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Keren Tikvah Foundation 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 Keren Tikvah Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Keren Tikvah Foundation based?
Keren Tikvah Foundation is based in NY.

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 49 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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