· Private foundation
Mendel Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| BAYSWATER NEIGHBORHOOD FUND | $2,000 |
| YESHIVA NETZACH HATORAH | $1,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
| VARIOUS OTHER DONATIONS | $655 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $4k) 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSHAVEI HEVRON INSTITUTIONS INC3× · 2019–2022 · $14k · revenue +65%
- BBBNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY2× · 2018–2019 · $11k · revenue +150%
- AOALWAYS OUR KIDS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $11k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $41k
- KMKOLEL MATEH EFRAIMone grant, 2023 · $25k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF AHAVAT SHALOMone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
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.
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Religious Teaching
To operate a high school offering religious instruction and general studies as well as a post high school program of talmudic studies. the school shall be run under the standards of orthodox jewish law and tradition.
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…
A post-secondary school offering an educational program in talmudic study
Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 100 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Md Friedman Family Foundation · Eisenberg Family Foundation Inc · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Moshe & Simi Mehlman Charitable Foundation Inc · The J W Foundation · Maalot · The Basch Family Foundation · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · J & E Wolf Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mendel Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mendel Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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