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Melly & Rochelle Lifshitz 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.

$83k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$525kHealth$433kEducation$262kInternational$192kPhilanthropy$77kHuman Services$47kFood & Nutrition$12kYouth Development$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHEVRA SHAAS AND MISHNAYOTH$23,500
GATEWAYS ORGANIZATION$19,500
KEREN HATZEDAKA$7,200
Individual grant recipient$6,800
MENTORAH$5,500
MIKVAH USA$5,000
AVIGDORS HELPING HAND$5,000
MAAYAN ACADEMY$5,000
AMUDIM$1,800
GIVE FUND$1,000
YOUNG ISRAEL OF LAWRENCE CEDARHURST$1,000
ACHIEZER$1,000
SHUVU RETURN$500
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 (FY18–24, $426k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AVIGDORS HELPING HAND: $23k → 13%KEREN HATZEDAKA: $7k → 11%AVIGDORS HELPING HAND: $5k → 13%AVIGDORS HELPING HAND: $5k → 13%ACHIEZER: $1k → 6%A TIME: $360k → 20%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $2k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $1k → 6%A TIME: $18k → 20%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $1k → 6%TEHILLAT NAAVA SHLACH LACHMECHA: $2k → 20%KEREN ANIYEM: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
AZ
TX
FL
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$833k · 27 repeat orgs$654k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
60

Total granted

$833k
$618k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+39%

Still filing today

33%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
ReligionHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentInternationalEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AT
    A Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange
    2× · 2019–2022 · $378k · revenue +206%
  • MU
    MIKVAH USA INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $65k · revenue +61%
  • AH
    AVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $33k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    one grant, 2023 · $176k · revenue -33%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
Friends of Meor Israel

Education and religious activities and research

Education
2
Shaare Mordechai Inc

The organization's primary mission is charitable and religious in nature, supporting judaic and rabbinical education by providing financial assistance to institutions of jewish learning, currently through grants to shaare mordechai in…

Religion
3
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
4
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
5
Hashevaynu Inc

The furthurance of jewish concepts and religious beliefs.

Education
6
American Friends of Yeshiva High School of Kiryat Arba Inc

Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide educational and social improvement for the children of kiryat arba, israel.

Philanthropy
7
Yeshivah Beth Israel Tifereth Menachem Foundation

To provide support to jewish religious education in israel and around the world, and provide financial assistance to and on behalf of yeshivah beth israel tifereth menachem.

Education
8
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
9
American Friends of Daas Aharon Inc

To promote, assist, and sponsor the spreading of Jewish religious education in Israel. The organization will also organize inspirational gatherings in the USA to enhance the participants' Torah knowledge.

Education
10
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
11
American Friends of Neveh Zion

To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel

Religion
12
American Friends of Yeshivath Kerem B'yavneh Inc

To provide grants to religious schools providing higher education

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Netiv Aryeh Inc; the most unlike its peers is Keren Aniyim 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

28 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. 28 of the 94 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
20/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHEVRA SHAAS AND MISHNAYOTH: $126,900 · OtherCHEVRA SHAAS AND MISHNAYOTHIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF GILBERT: $39,000 · OtherCHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF GILBERTCONGREGATION BAIS YEHUDAH TZVI: $25,000 · Other+61 more: $320,196 · Other+61 moreA Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange: $378,000 · Human ServicesA Torah Infertilty Medium Exch…AVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC: $33,000 · Human ServicesAVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC+5 more: $14,800 · Human ServicesMAALOT: $75,000 · ReligionMAALOTMIKVAH USA INC: $64,500 · ReligionMIKVAH USA INCYESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $20,000 · ReligionYESHIVA OF FAR RO…GATEWAYS ORGANIZATION INC: $19,500 · ReligionGATEWAYS ORGANIZA…MENTORAH: $17,000 · ReligionMENTORAHAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NETIV ARYEH INC: $16,800 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS …+5 more: $21,800 · Religion+5 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $176,251 · InternationalFRIENDS OF T…+1 more: $1,200 · InternationalLAPID YESHIVA INC: $25,000 · EducationMAAYAN ACADEMY INC: $15,000 · EducationOUR PLACE INC: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentANCHOR MENTORING INC: $6,800 · Youth DevelopmentMADRAIGOS INC: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC: $1,800 · HealthSHUVU RETURN INC: $500 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MATAN INC: $360 · Philanthropy
Other$661,096Human Services$425,800Religion$234,600International$177,451Education$40,000Youth Development$19,800Health$1,800Philanthropy$860

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetA Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange: $378,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $176,251 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAALOT: $75,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMIKVAH USA INC: $64,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC: $33,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLAPID YESHIVA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetYESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGATEWAYS ORGANIZATION INC: $19,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMENTORAH: $17,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NETIV ARYEH INC: $16,800 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMAAYAN ACADEMY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOUR PLACE INC: $12,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetKEREN HATZEDAKA INC: $7,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANCHOR MENTORING INC: $6,800 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAISH GLOBAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA IMREI BINA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERKAZ HATORAH COMMUNITY KOLLEL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $3,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEHILLAT NAAVA SHLACH LACHMECHA FOUNDATION INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHASDEI LEV: $1,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADRAIGOS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEREN ANIYIM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHUVU RETURN INC: $500 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 A Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds MAALOT ↗
  • Who funds MIKVAH USA INC ↗
  • Who funds AVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC ↗
  • Who funds LAPID YESHIVA INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAYS ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MENTORAH ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NETIV ARYEH INC ↗
  • Who funds MAAYAN ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds OUR PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds KEREN HATZEDAKA INC ↗
  • Who funds ANCHOR MENTORING INC ↗
  • Who funds AISH GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA IMREI BINA 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Ojc FundJewish Community Foun…The Hirsch Family Cha…The Ganger Foundation…Cross River Community…Associated Jewish Cha…FjcAstar Foundation IncEisenberg Family Foun…The Ezra Charitable T…Maalot
Jewish Communal FundNY38.9× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Hirsch Family Charitable Foundation Trust · The Ganger Foundation Inc · Cross River Community Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Fjc · Astar Foundation Inc · Eisenberg Family Foundation Inc · The Ezra Charitable Trust · Maalot

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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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    Find your warmest path to Melly & Rochelle Lifshitz Charitable Trust 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 94 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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