· Private foundation
Maaser Foundation Inc
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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The San Diego Jewish Experience | $34,500 |
| Congregation Zichron Aryeh Leib | $23,528 |
| Torah Community Fund | $10,500 |
| American Friends of Bircas Hatorah | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SDSAN DIEGO JEWISH EXPERIENCE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $648k
- CZCONGREGATION ZICHRON ARYEH LEIB INC7× · 2017–2023 · $190k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS BIRCAS HATORAH INC7× · 2017–2023 · $161k · revenue -20%
Funded once
- PIPROJECT INSPIRE INCone grant, 2019 · $18k · revenue -9%
- DIDEJ International Heritage Foundatione grant, 2019 · $15k
- DTDALLAS TORAH INSTITUTEone grant, 2019 · $11k
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.
5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 19 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Maaser Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maaser Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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