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Mazel U'Brocha 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.

$158k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
—
States reached
$49k
Largest
01What it funds
0171% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$366kEducation$155kPhilanthropy$37kFood & Nutrition$20kCivil Rights$10kHealth$5kArts & Culture$500Other$0
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $69,150, the rows itemized in this filing. The $158,151 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $89,001 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k6 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $59k
$1,700
Median grant
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States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NCFJE Furtherance of Jewish Education$49,200
The Yaldeinu School$10,000
SCHI$6,000
Yeshiva Gedolah Tiferes Tzvi$1,700
EOM$1,000
Tzur Foundation$500
United Inst Of Karlin$500
Jewish Heritage For The Blind$250
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 10%CHASDEI SHIMON INC: $10k → 11%CHASDEI SHIMON INC: $10k → 11%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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$446k · 20 repeat orgs$278k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
61

Total granted

$446k
$259k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+37%

Still filing today

15%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
ReligionEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthInternationalOther
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

  • NC
    NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR FURTHERANCE OF JEWISH EDUCATION AND AFFILLIATES
    2× · 2020–2021 · $118k · revenue +36%
  • CS
    CHASDEI SHIMON INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +121%
  • AA
    Arachim America Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $200 · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • H
    HASHALOM
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • CS
    Chasdei Shimon Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Yeshivat Yagdil Torah Inc

Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.

Education
3
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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4
Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc

Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students

Education
5
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.

Education
6
Yeshiva Nesivos Hatorah Inc

Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.

Education
7
Yeshiva Chayei Olam

Yeshiva chayei olam inc., was established for the purpose of having an orthodox jewish high school. the school teaches talumdic studies, talmudic jurasprudence, orthodox jewish ethics and the old testament. in addition, the school provides…

Education
8
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
9
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
10
Chabad Lametayel Inc

encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.

—
11
Yeshiva Shaar Hatalmud

Providing jewish education to high school age students.

Education
12
Yeshivas Toras Zev Inc

The purpose of this organization is to support indigent torah scholars and their families by providing stipends and additional funds at jewish holiday times.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva Ohr Yehuda Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Tzedaka Fund. 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

15 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. 15 of the 86 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR FURTHERANCE OF JEWISH EDUCATION AND AFFILLIATES: $118,450 · OtherNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR FURTHERANCE OF JEWISH EDUCATION AND AFFILLIATESNCFJE Furtherance of Jewish Education: $99,700 · OtherNCFJE Furtherance of Jewish EducationCONGREGATION BAIS YOSEPH HALEVI: $52,000 · OtherCONGREGATION BAIS YOSEPH HALEVIIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBNOS YAAKOV: $38,000 · OtherBNOS YAAKOVTIFERES ACHIM: $29,700 · Other+67 more: $235,650 · Other+67 moreTHE YALDEINU SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationYESHIVA OHR YEHUDA INC: $11,000 · EducationCONGREGATION BNOS YAAKOV INC: $5,200 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationHASHALOM: $25,000 · Religion+3 more: $900 · ReligionSHUVU RETURN INC: $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyCHASDEI SHIMON INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCHESED OF LAKEWOOD INC: $1,500 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA ALIYOIS: $1,000 · International
Other$623,500Education$31,700Religion$25,900Philanthropy$20,500Human Services$20,000Health$1,500International$1,000

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 budgetNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR FURTHERANCE OF JEWISH EDUCATION AND AFFILLIATES: $118,450 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSHUVU RETURN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHASDEI SHIMON INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE YALDEINU SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA TIFERES TORAH INC: $11,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYESHIVA OHR YEHUDA INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCONGREGATION BNOS YAAKOV INC: $5,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHESED OF LAKEWOOD INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA ALIYOIS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TZEDAKA FUND: $500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYESHIVA NACHLEI TORAH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArachim America Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKUPAS YOM TOV INC: $200 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 NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR FURTHERANCE OF JEWISH EDUCATION AND AFFILLIATES ↗
  • Who funds HASHALOM ↗
  • Who funds SHUVU RETURN INC ↗
  • Who funds CHASDEI SHIMON INC ↗
  • Who funds THE YALDEINU SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA TIFERES TORAH INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA OHR YEHUDA INC ↗
  • Who funds CONGREGATION BNOS YAAKOV 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 FundNY28.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Sorala Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Donors Fund Inc · Sheena Foundation · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · Eycy Fund Inc · Harry H Beren Foundation Ig · Joe & Eileen Sutton Family Foundation · The Elishis 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mazel U'Brocha Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mazel U'Brocha Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Yeshiva Nachlei Torah Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Yeshiva Tiferes Torah Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Yeshiva Ohr Yehuda Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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 · 0–30%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Mazel U'Brocha Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mazel U'Brocha Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 86 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $357k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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