· Private foundation
Lchayim Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k55 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAIS YAKOV D'RAV MEIR | $13,600 |
| SHIRAS BAIS YAAKOV | $10,180 |
| BAIS BINYOMIN | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,480 |
| CONGREGATION ZICHRON MENACHEM | $7,500 |
| THE DONORS FUND | $6,250 |
| TASHBAR OF LAKEWOOD | $5,000 |
| AGUDAS YISROEL | $5,000 |
| LEV BAIS YAAKOV | $5,000 |
| CHABAD OF BAL HARBOR | $5,000 |
| YESHIVA OHR YISRAEL | $5,000 |
| BAIS YAAKOV ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| NACHLAS LEVI YITZCHOK | $4,250 |
| YESHIVA TORAH VODAATH | $3,700 |
| PROSPECT PARK YESHIVA | $3,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.
59 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 27 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SRSHIRAS RUCHAMA INC3× · 2022–2024 · $16k · revenue +35%
- AOALWAYS OUR KIDS INC4× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +57%
- BJBETH JACOB HIGH SCHOOL INC3× · 2020–2023 · $7k · revenue +160%
Funded once
- ZMZICHRON MENACHEM INCone grant, 2021 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $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.
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
The furtherance of primacy of orthodox jewish jurisprudence
The furthurance of jewish concepts and religious beliefs.
Religious Teaching
Provide financial assistance to torah and talmudic scholars, as well as to other needy individuals and other organizations that work to promote these purposes.
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 197 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.
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 · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Lexicon Foundation Inc · Greenzweig Family Foundation · Eisenberg Family Foundation Inc · Jsw Foundation · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · The Sorala Foundation · The Jmg Foundation · Donors Fund Inc · The Fishoff Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lchayim Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lchayim Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bnos Bracha Inc: 9% of income from government
- Tashbar of Lakewood Inc: 4% of income from government
- Oorah Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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