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Mazal Charitable Trust

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.

$660k
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$129k
Largest
01What it funds
0169% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$2.3MEducation$57kHealth$52kRecreation & Sports$42kYouth Development$26kInternational$20kArts & Culture$10kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $99k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $332k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $229k
$6,600
Median grant
2
States reached
$37k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$129,325
MACHNE GILA$100,000
AHAVAS CHESED$48,000
BOBOVER YESHIVA BNEI ZION$31,650
KEREN ORAH$29,188
YESHIVA MACHZIKEI HADAS$25,000
YESHIVAS TAL CHAIM$24,820
YESHIVA SHOLOM SHACHNA$20,960
Individual grant recipient$18,427
CONG YETEV LEV D'SATMAR$18,000
CONG AHAVAS CHESED D'BOBOV$18,000
RENEWAL OF LIFE$17,000
YESHIVA CHASAN SOFER$16,400
Individual grant recipient$15,389
BAIS MALKA OF LAKEWOOD$14,315
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, 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.

area typical 11%BAIS CHESED LA: $500 → 14%RENEWAL OF LIFE: $26k → 20%RENEWAL OF LIFE: $17k → 20%RENEWAL OF LIFE: $1k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $1k → 20%Bonei Olam: $1k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $500 → 20%Bonei Olam: $500 → 20%Bonei Olam: $360 → 20%BONEI OLAM: $360 → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 45 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
88

Total granted

$3.1M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+40%

Still filing today

9%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalReligionHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • RO
    RENEWAL OF LIFE INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $44k · revenue +193%
  • BO
    Bonei Olam Inc
    5× · 2017–2022 · $4k · revenue +224%
  • CL
    CHAI LIFELINE INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • CM
    CONGREGATION MACHNA SHALVA
    one grant, 2022 · $300k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • CY
    CONGREGATION YETEV LEV
    one grant, 2018 · $60k
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.

1
Gemilas Chesed Kramer Inc
Philanthropy
2
American Friends of Kehillas Shivtei Yeshurun Inc

Assistance to establish a community in ramat beit shemesh, israel, founded upon torah principles, prayer, justice, charity and kindness to all peoples. to encourage and promote jewish religious activities.

Religion
3
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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4
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
5
Tal Hashamayim Foundation
Religion
6
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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7
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship
Religion
9
The Keren Rachaim Fund
—
10
Ny Afo Meomek Halev Inc

AFOMeomekHalevIncisformedforthereligiouscharitablepurposeofprovidingJewishministrytothespiritualandphysicalneedsofdisadvantagedJewishpersonsfamiliesandchildrenbetheylocatedintheNewYorkaroundtheUSinIsraelorelsewhere

Religion
11
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
12
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Kupat Ha'ir; the most unlike its peers is Hopkinton Public Library Foundation Inc. 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

25 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. 25 of the 148 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $852,325 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMACHNE GILA: $350,000 · OtherMACHNE GILACONGREGATION MACHNA SHALVA: $300,000 · OtherCONGREGATION MACHNA SHALVAIndividual grant recipient: $231,638 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOBOVER YESHIVAH BNEI ZION: $175,479 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $152,800 · Other+121 more: $2,108,109 · Other+121 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DERECH CHOCHMA INC: $30,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF GENESIS JERUSALEM INC: $12,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ACHY: $10,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND: $7,000 · InternationalKUPAS HACHESED FOUNDATION INC: $2,800 · InternationalRENEWAL OF LIFE INC: $44,000 · Human ServicesBonei Olam Inc: $3,920 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesKUPAS YERUSHALYAM INC: $6,000 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR: $3,160 · ReligionKEREN CHAIM ZANVIL INC: $1,000 · ReligionBikur Cholim of Washington Heights co Shoshana Hasenfeld: $360 · ReligionYeshivas Talmideini Inc: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentYESHIVA OF CENTRAL QUEENS: $5,000 · EducationHASHEM'S CHILDREN INC: $3,000 · EducationKOCHAVIM INC: $1,000 · EducationHopkinton Public Library Foundation Inc: $1,000 · EducationCHAI LIFELINE INC: $2,800 · HealthSMILING SOULS INC: $500 · HealthREFUAH HELPLINE INCDBA REFUAH RESOURCES: $500 · HealthSharsheret Inc: $360 · Health
Other$4,170,351International$62,300Human Services$48,420Religion$10,520Youth Development$10,000Education$10,000Health$4,160

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRENEWAL OF LIFE INC: $44,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DERECH CHOCHMA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF GENESIS JERUSALEM INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYeshivas Talmideini Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKUPAS YERUSHALYAM INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYESHIVA OF CENTRAL QUEENS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $3,920 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR: $3,160 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACHON MASEH ROCKEACH INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHASHEM'S CHILDREN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKUPAS HACHESED FOUNDATION INC: $2,800 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BAS AYIN: $2,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMASBIA: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKOCHAVIM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHopkinton Public Library Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetKEREN CHAIM ZANVIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSMILING SOULS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAIS CHESED LA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUAH HELPLINE INCDBA REFUAH RESOURCES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBikur Cholim of Washington Heights co Shoshana Hasenfeld: $360 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds RENEWAL OF LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DERECH CHOCHMA INC ↗

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.

The Ojc FundNY56.6× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · S&W Foundation Inc · B&M Steinmetz Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Fishoff Family Foundation · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Rieger Charitable Foundation Trust · Tiger Hl Foundation · Fund for Life Foundation Inc

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 Mazal Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mazal Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 148 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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