· Private foundation
Kol Sason Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION AHAVAS CHESED | $20,000 |
| CONGREGATION ZICHRON MOSHE | $14,518 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,700 |
| CHEVRA SHAS | $10,000 |
| LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| BAIS KAILA | $5,000 |
| YESHIVA TORAS ZEV | $4,925 |
| CHEMDAS BAIS YAAKOV | $1,450 |
| Y&R RELIGIOUS ARTICLES | $1,000 |
| CHAI LIFELINE | $200 |
| YESHIVA TIFERES BARUCH | $200 |
| HATZOLAH | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| YAD ELIEZER | $100 |
| SOUTH BEND HEBREW DAY SCHOOL | $100 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $134) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
26 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LCLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC6× · 2017–2024 · $142k · revenue +48%
- TBTIFERES BAIS YAAKOV INC5× · 2018–2022 · $36k · revenue +31%
- BKBAIS KAILA TORAH PREPARATORY HS6× · 2018–2024 · $36k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- TOTASHBAR OF LAKEWOOD INCone grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue +13%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $22k
- CFCONGREGATION FOREST PARKone grant, 2019 · $16k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
The organization operates a religious/parochial high school and college in lakewood, nj.
Parochial elementary school with a focus on sephardic tradition.
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
Yeshiva toras aron is a religious elementary school providing quality education for grades k-8 for the children of lakewood nj.
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
Provide a building for a religious school.
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary and high school aged children.
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
Operation of a parochial elementary school, providing education services to students
Providing jewish education to high school age students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshivas Toras Zev Inc and the most unlike its peers is Misaskim Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 85 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TIFERES BAIS YAAKOV INC ↗
- Who funds BAIS KAILA TORAH PREPARATORY HS ↗
- Who funds TASHBAR OF LAKEWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds DONORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA KOL TORAH INC ↗
- Who funds TZUR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAS TORAS ZEV INC ↗
- Who funds CHEDER TORAS ZEV ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Donors Fund Inc · The Sorala Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jsp Family Foundation · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · David Rosenbaum Family Foundation · Yes Ben Dovid Foundation Inc · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · The Jmg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Kol Sason Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cheder Toras Zev — 22% of income from government
- Tiferes Bais Yaakov Inc — 16% of income from government
- Tashbar of Lakewood Inc — 4% of income from government
- Yeshiva Kol Torah Inc — 3% of income from government
- Yeshiva Tiferes Boruch — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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