· Private foundation
Ladders 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| MESIVTA KEREN ORAH | $5,000 |
| AHARON SOFER MEMORIAL FUND | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GOGEMACH OF JACKSON INC2× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +254%
- YSYESHIVA SHAGAS ARYEH INC2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +38%
- LCLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC2× · 2018–2019 · $500 · revenue +54%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
Operation of a parochial grade school in lakewood, new jersey.
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Parochial elementary school with a focus on sephardic tradition.
Providing jewish education to high school age students.
Operation of a parochial elementary school, providing education services to students
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
Parochial secondary school.
The organization operates a religious/parochial high school and college in lakewood, nj.
Jewish education & development
Masores bnos yisroel is a religious elementary school providing quality education for the children of lakewood nj.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds TALMUDO BIYADO MISHNAYOS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel ↗
- Who funds MESIVTA KEREN ORAH ↗
- Who funds AHARON SOFER MEMORIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds GEMACH OF JACKSON INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA SHAGAS ARYEH INC ↗
- Who funds LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AHAVAS TZEDAKA INC ↗
- Who funds Masmid Govoha ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Jewish Communal Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ladders Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ladders Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mesivta Keren Orah: 10% of income from government
- Yeshiva Shagas Aryeh Inc: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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