Kansas · Public charity
Menorah Heritage Foundation
The organization is designed to provide support for other charitable organizations as described in sections 501(c)(3) and 509(a) of the internal revenue code. The organization is operated exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes. It supports activities for the benefit of, performs the functions of, or carries out the…
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 77
- Grants FY2025
- 71
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $640,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 70 to 78
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $69M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Menorah Heritage Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 67 | $2.4M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 71 | $2.4M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 75 | $2.4M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 77 | $2.4M | 13% |
| FY2021 | 75 | $2.4M | 13% |
| FY2020 | 70 | $2.3M | 10% |
| FY2019 | 78 | $2.3M | 15% |
| FY2018 | 73 | $2.5M | 22% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family Services | $5,766,639 | 9 | 16% |
| Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City | $2,441,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Village Shalom Inc | $1,576,232 | 9 | 1% |
| Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy | $1,455,300 | 9 | 4% |
| Jewish Community Campus of Greater Kansas City Inc | $1,165,500 | 9 | 6% |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $398,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Saint Lukes Foundation | $358,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Mid-America Regional Council Community Services Corporation | $292,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Gan Chabad Torah Center Inc | $217,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $210,000 | 4 | 13% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Menorah Heritage Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 141 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The Shumaker Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg
How this is measured
About Menorah Heritage Foundation
- How much does Menorah Heritage Foundation give?
- Menorah Heritage Foundation reported 77 grants totaling $2,707,908 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 78 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Menorah Heritage Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (50%), Philanthropy (11%), Health (8%).
- Who are Menorah Heritage Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Family Services ($5.8M), Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City ($2.4M), Village Shalom Inc ($1.6M).
- Does Menorah Heritage Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Menorah Heritage Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Health Forward Foundation, United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation.
- Where is Menorah Heritage Foundation based?
- Menorah Heritage Foundation is based in KS.
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