Skip to content
Keren Tzemed at a glance

· Private foundation

Keren Tzemed

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$121kEducation$49kInternational$18kHuman Services$5kFood & Nutrition$198
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$272k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UPPER MIDWEST MERKOS EDUC CTR$7,500
CHABAD OF MIAMI GARDENS$5,000
UNITED LUBAVITCHER YESHIVA$1,500
MISC$596
OHOLEI TORAH$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KEREN SIMCHAS CHOSSON VE-KALLAH INC: $5k → 20%CHABAD OF BOQUETE: $1k → 20%CHASDEI AVROHOM ELIEZER INC: $100 → 20%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$126k · 19 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
21

Total granted

$126k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+108%

Still filing today

26%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalReligionEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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 YESHIVAT MIGDAL HATORAH INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +190%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR FURTHERANCE OF JEWISH EDUCATION AND AFFILLIATES
    4× · 2018–2021 · $8k · revenue +36%
  • AB
    ASSOCIATED BETH RIVKA SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
    2× · 2018–2019 · $5k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • CO
    CHABAD OF RUSSIA COMMUNITIES
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • OM
    OHR MENACHEM
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CHABAD BELGIUM INC
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
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.

1
Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship
Religion
2
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
3
Gemilas Chesed Kramer Inc
Philanthropy
4
Chabad Lametayel Inc

encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.

—
5
Nefesh Chaim Inc
Religion
6
Ahavas Torah V'chesed
Philanthropy
7
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
8
Bnei Moshe
Philanthropy
9
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
10
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
11
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

—
12
Rashbi Tehillim Incorporated
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish Education and Affilliates; the most unlike its peers is Tzedakah Vchesed 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

13 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. 13 of the 43 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YESHIVA GEDOLA LUBAVITCH: $23,025 · OtherYESHIVA GEDOLA LUBAVITCHEDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OHOLEI TORAH OF BROOKLYN INC: $16,250 · OtherEDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OHOLEI TORAH OF BROOKLYN INCBAIS MENACHEM: $11,000 · OtherBAIS MENACHEMCHABAD OF RUSSIA COMMUNITIES: $10,000 · OtherCHABAD OF RUSSIA COMMUNITIESNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR FURTHERANCE OF JEWISH EDUCATION AND AFFILLIATES: $8,100 · OtherOHR MENACHEM: $8,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF CHABAD BELGIUM INC: $7,800 · OtherCONGREGATION FRIENDS OF REFUGEES OF EASTERN EUROPE: $7,700 · OtherUPPER MIDWEST MERKOS EDUC CTR: $7,500 · OtherBETH RIVKAH: $6,670 · OtherCHABAD OF MID MIAMI BEACH: $6,100 · OtherCONGREGATION BAIS SHALOM INC: $5,550 · Other+21 more: $41,547 · Other+21 moreMESIVTA OF CORAL SPRINGS INC: $15,700 · EducationMESIVTA O…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT MIGDAL HATORAH INC: $10,100 · International+1 more: $54 · InternationalKeren Simchas Chosson Ve Kallah: $4,500 · Human ServicesCHABAD OF BOQUETE INC: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesBAIS CHABAD OF KALKASKA INC: $1,000 · ReligionAGUDAS NSHEI UBNOS CHABAD -Lubavitch Women's Org Inc: $360 · ReligionEzras Cholim Yad Ephraim Inc: $198 · Food & NutritionNESHAMA OF MANHATTAN BEACH INC: $150 · Arts & Culture
Other$159,242Education$15,700International$10,154Human Services$5,600Religion$1,360Food & Nutrition$198Arts & Culture$150

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMESIVTA OF CORAL SPRINGS INC: $15,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT MIGDAL HATORAH INC: $10,100 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR FURTHERANCE OF JEWISH EDUCATION AND AFFILLIATES: $8,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATED BETH RIVKA SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $4,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKeren Simchas Chosson Ve Kallah: $4,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKESHER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBAIS CHABAD OF KALKASKA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHABAD OF BOQUETE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAGUDAS NSHEI UBNOS CHABAD -Lubavitch Women's Org Inc: $360 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEzras Cholim Yad Ephraim Inc: $198 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNESHAMA OF MANHATTAN BEACH INC: $150 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHASDEI AVROHOM ELIEZER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTZEDAKAH VCHESED INC: $54 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds MESIVTA OF CORAL SPRINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT MIGDAL HATORAH INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR FURTHERANCE OF JEWISH EDUCATION AND AFFILLIATES ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATED BETH RIVKA SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
  • Who funds Keren Simchas Chosson Ve Kallah ↗
  • Who funds KESHER INC ↗
  • Who funds BAIS CHABAD OF KALKASKA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHABAD OF BOQUETE INC ↗
  • Who funds AGUDAS NSHEI UBNOS CHABAD -Lubavitch Women's Org Inc ↗
  • Who funds Ezras Cholim Yad Ephraim Inc ↗
  • Who funds NESHAMA OF MANHATTAN BEACH 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.

The Ojc FundJewish Communal FundLavie Shterna Popack …Nash Charity Foundati…The Rapoport Family F…Caroline & Joseph S G…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jack Adjmi Family Fou…Hadar Hatorah Rabbini…Congregation Bh IncSaul Schottenstein Fo…Bracha Vehatzlacha Fo…
The Ojc FundNY24.6× affinity13 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 · Lavie Shterna Popack Family Foundat · Nash Charity Foundation Inc · The Rapoport Family Foundation Inc · Caroline & Joseph S Gruss Life Monument Funds Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Hadar Hatorah Rabbinical College and Subsidary Machon Chana · Congregation Bh Inc · Saul Schottenstein Foundation C · Bracha Vehatzlacha Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Keren Tzemed?

    Find your warmest path to Keren Tzemed through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 43 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.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Keren Tzemed’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home