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Mayer Simcha Leiter Charitable 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.

$295k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
62%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$65,600
Organizations funded a year
5 to 18
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$8.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 62% of the organizations Mayer Simcha Leiter Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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
PhilanthropyInternationalHuman ServicesReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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 arriving17$295k53%
FY202313$187k62%
FY202218$244k56%
FY20219$173k44%
FY20205$102k20%
FY20197$85kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$770kHuman Services$125kYouth Development$58kArts & Culture$45kPhilanthropy$40kEducation$27kInternational$15kCrime & Legal$1kOther$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
Efrat Development Foundation USA Inc$240,780525%
Friends of Chabad Tzfas Inc$239,00066%
Mothers of Crown Heights Inc$87,50068%
United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth Inc$83,6856n/a
Friends of Chabad of Hebron Inc$65,00013%
American Friends of Ateret Cohanim Inc$50,00023%
Kumah Inc$44,7702n/a
Associated Beth Rivka School for Girls$26,15050%
Kindness and Love Inc$17,725131%
Chabad Outreach in Israel Inc$17,2003n/a
Show all 27 grantees
All grantees of Mayer Simcha Leiter Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Efrat Development Foundation USA Inc$240,780525%
Friends of Chabad Tzfas Inc$239,00066%
Mothers of Crown Heights Inc$87,50068%
United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth Inc$83,6856n/a
Friends of Chabad of Hebron Inc$65,00013%
American Friends of Ateret Cohanim Inc$50,00023%
Kumah Inc$44,7702n/a
Associated Beth Rivka School for Girls$26,15050%
Kindness and Love Inc$17,725131%
Chabad Outreach in Israel Inc$17,2003n/a
American Friends of Polnooer Inst Inc$14,0001n/a
Rabbinical College of America$14,00010%
Beis Moshe$11,2501n/a
Cheder Yaldei Menachem Inc$10,00011%
Kolel Eliezer Elimelech$5,0001n/a
Hebron Fund Inc$5,00010%
Heart to Heart International Inc$5,00010%
United Jewish Council of the East Side Inc$5,00010%
The Torah Learning Project$4,50011%
Lubavitch Educational Center$3,0001n/a
Central Fund of Israel$2,50020%
Chai Center Inc$1,8001n/a
Just One Chesed Inc$1,40010%
The Society for the Promotion of Jewish Education$1,00013%
Friendship Circle of Brooklyn Inc$1,00010%
Beit Chabad Israeli Center Inc$1,0001n/a
Zechut Avot Foundation$8751n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($128k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Mayer Simcha Leiter Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEfrat Development Foundation USA Inc: $240,780 over 5y, 25% of budgetFriends of Chabad Tzfas Inc: $239,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetMothers of Crown Heights Inc: $87,500 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetFriends of Chabad of Hebron Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of Ateret Cohanim Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetAssociated Beth Rivka School for Girls: $26,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKindness and Love Inc: $17,725 over 1y, 31% of budgetRabbinical College of America: $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCheder Yaldei Menachem Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHebron Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHeart to Heart International Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Jewish Council of the East Side Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Torah Learning Project: $4,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJust One Chesed Inc: $1,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Society for the Promotion of Jewish Education: $1,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFriendship Circle of Brooklyn Inc: $1,000 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 17.

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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.

Nash Charity Foundation IncNJ21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nash Charity Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Lets Make It Happen Ny Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish Education and Affilliates · The Rapoport Family Foundation Inc · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Mayer Simcha Leiter Charitable Foundation

How much does Mayer Simcha Leiter Charitable Foundation give?
Mayer Simcha Leiter Charitable Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $294,685 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Mayer Simcha Leiter Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (70%), Human Services (11%), Youth Development (5%).
Who are Mayer Simcha Leiter Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Efrat Development Foundation USA Inc ($241k), Friends of Chabad Tzfas Inc ($239k), Mothers of Crown Heights Inc ($88k).
Does Mayer Simcha Leiter Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mayer Simcha Leiter Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mayer Simcha Leiter Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nash Charity Foundation Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, The Ojc Fund.
Where is Mayer Simcha Leiter Charitable Foundation based?
Mayer Simcha Leiter Charitable Foundation 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 40 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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