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.

Mayer Simcha Leiter Charitable Foundation

Mayer Simcha Leiter Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$66k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% 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

02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $32k
$10k–50k7 grants · $132k
$50k–250k2 grants · $131k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
EFRAT DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION USA	$65,600
FRIENDS OF CHABAD OF HEBRON	$65,000
KUMAN INC	$39,770
FRIENDS OF CHABAD TZFAT	$30,000
Individual grant recipient	$17,450
RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA	$14,000
BEIS MOSHE INC	$11,250
CHEDER YALDEI MENACHEM	$10,000
MOTHERS OF CROWN HEIGHTS	$10,000
UNITED LUBAVITCHER YESHIVA	$7,265
CHABAD OUTREACH IN ISRAEL	$7,200
ASSOCIATED BETH RIVKA SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC	$6,250
COMMITTEE FOR JEWISH ADVANCEMENT	$5,000
SHIMON & YEHUDIS LEITER FAMILY FUND INC	$2,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$808k · 11 repeat orgs$278k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +145% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$808k

$151k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+145%

Still filing today

55%

37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

ReligionInternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

ED
EFRAT DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION USA INC
5× · 2019–2024 · $241k · revenue ×14 · 25% of their budget
FO
Friends of Chabad Tzfas Inc
6× · 2019–2024 · $239k · revenue +347%
MO
Mothers of Crown Heights Inc
6× · 2019–2024 · $88k · revenue +45%

Funded once

TE
THE EFRAT DEVELOPEMENT FUND USA
one grant, 2023 · $58k
KA
KINDNESS AND LOVE INC
one grant, 2023 · $18k · 31% of their budget
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF POLNOOER INST INC
one grant, 2023 · $14k

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.

04Its field

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.

Zichron Moshe Elihu Tzedoka Fund

Philanthropy

American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah

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University of Judaism Foundation

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Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation

Philanthropy

Sherit Isroel

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Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc

Philanthropy

Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

The Keren Rachaim Fund

—

American Friends of Ohel Bas Zion Inc

—

Zichroin Rabbeini Meshilem Feiish Ztl Foundation

—

American Friends of Yeshivat Chochmat Shlomo

Charity

Religion

American Friends of Jerusalem Cheder Inc

To provide support for jewish religious education in israel and around the world, and financial support to charitable organizations enabling such entities to fulfill their charitable purpose.

Religion

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Ateret Cohanim Inc; the most unlike its peers is Zechut Avot Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 40 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/20

Grantees still filing

12/20

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$335,780Religion$320,280International$296,500Human Services$92,500Philanthropy$25,000Community Improvement$18,500Education$15,000Youth Development$1,000

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mayer Simcha Leiter Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mayer Simcha Leiter Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home