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Mahshala Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$781k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
38
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
9%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,200
Largest grant, FY2024
$410,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 24
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$2.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Mahshala Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
ReligionHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving38$781k47%
FY202322$241k9%
FY202224$303k46%
FY202120$173k20%
FY202018$180k56%
FY201915$177kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$1.6MHealth$110kFood & Nutrition$100kPhilanthropy$50kInternational$43kHuman Services$39kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kEducation$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Safe Foundation Inc$39,20050%
Porat Yoseph Foundation$35,00053%
The Edmond J Safra Synagogue Inc$29,5403n/a
Yeshivah of Flatbush$18,7203n/a
Reach for the Stars Learning Center$11,40030%
The Kesher Organization Inc$10,80030%
Barkai Foundation Inc$10,30020%
Simha Organization Inc$7,20020%
Magen Abraham Yeshiva Inc Congregation Bnei Ovadia$5,20020%
Bikur Cholim of Lakewood Inc$5,00010%
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All grantees of Mahshala Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Safe Foundation Inc$39,20050%
Porat Yoseph Foundation$35,00053%
The Edmond J Safra Synagogue Inc$29,5403n/a
Yeshivah of Flatbush$18,7203n/a
Reach for the Stars Learning Center$11,40030%
The Kesher Organization Inc$10,80030%
Barkai Foundation Inc$10,30020%
Simha Organization Inc$7,20020%
Magen Abraham Yeshiva Inc Congregation Bnei Ovadia$5,20020%
Bikur Cholim of Lakewood Inc$5,00010%
Ahi Ezer Yeshiva Inc$2,8011n/a

Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mahshala Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSafe Foundation Inc: $39,200 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPorat Yoseph Foundation: $35,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetReach for the Stars Learning Center: $11,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Kesher Organization Inc: $10,800 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBarkai Foundation Inc: $10,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSimha Organization Inc: $7,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMagen Abraham Yeshiva Inc Congregation Bnei Ovadia: $5,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBikur Cholim of Lakewood Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Jack Adjmi Family Foundation IncNY23.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ralph S Gindi Family Foundation · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · The Setton Foundation · Abraham D & Annette Cohen Foundation · N'Ve Shalom Foundation Inc · The Mamiye Foundation Inc · Jack D Cohen Foundation Inc · I Chera & Sons Foundation Inc · E R G Foundation · Cabasso Family Foundation

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.

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About Mahshala Foundation Inc

How much does Mahshala Foundation Inc give?
Mahshala Foundation Inc reported 38 grants totaling $781,171 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 24 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Mahshala Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (79%), Health (5%), Food & Nutrition (5%).
Who are Mahshala Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Safe Foundation Inc ($39k), Porat Yoseph Foundation ($35k), The Edmond J Safra Synagogue Inc ($30k).
Does Mahshala Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mahshala Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mahshala Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, The Ralph S Gindi Family Foundation.
Where is Mahshala Foundation Inc based?
Mahshala Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 60 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.

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