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Mezritch 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.

$164k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$164k
Largest
01What it funds
0154% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$174kReligion$173kPublic Benefit$46kYouth Development$7kArts & Culture$7kHealth$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kRecreation & Sports$780Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$163,647
Median grant
1
States reached
$326k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Misc Charities$163,647
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 (FY17–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Bonei Olam Inc: $600 → 20%Bonei Olam: $100 → 20%Bonei Olam Inc: $75 → 20%Bonei Olam Inc: $75 → 20%Bonei Olam Inc: $75 → 20%Bonei Olam Inc: $75 → 20%Bonei Olam Inc: $75 → 20%Bonei Olam Inc: $75 → 20%Bonei Olam Inc: $75 → 20%Litaher Center Inc: $180 → 14%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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$707k · 32 repeat orgs$320k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
92

Total granted

$707k
$320k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+19%

Still filing today

13%
4%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthReligionHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF KOLLEL SQUARE BNEI BRAK INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +4%
  • MM
    MIFAL MAYUNES INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $2k · revenue +49%
  • SO
    SHARE OF NEW SQUARE INC DBA CHESED 247
    3× · 2017–2021 · $2k · revenue +324%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $76k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $53k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $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
Bikur Cholim of Ny Inc

Medical Guidance

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2
Bais Vaad Lechachomim Yerishulayim Inc

We promote and spread the religious teachings and philosophies of the holy Baal Shem Tov from Poland, who is regarded as the founder of Hasidic Judaism We provide financial assistance to Bais Vaad Lechachomim, a not for profit organization…

Religion
3
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
4
Chabad Lametayel Inc

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

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5
Zichron Yaakov Yitzchok Inc
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6
Ohr Olam Corp

publish religious books

Religion
7
Gemilas Chesed Kramer Inc
Philanthropy
8
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
9
Chabad of Bensonhurst Inc

Chabad of Bensonhurst Inc is an organization dedicated to furthering the religious, educational, and charitable needs of the Jewish Community.

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10
Rabbi Meir Baal Haness Charity of Jerusalem Inc
Philanthropy
11
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
12
Hatzalah of Newark Ems Inc
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Kollel Square Bnei Brak Inc; the most unlike its peers is Litaher Center 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

9 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. 9 of the 124 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Misc Charities: $337,557 · OtherMisc CharitiesIndividual grant recipient: $81,116 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGLOBAL CENTER OF SKVER: $78,978 · OtherGLOBAL CENTER OF SKVERIndividual grant recipient: $76,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $53,020 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherCONGREGATION OF NEW SQUARE: $45,620 · Other+109 more: $288,747 · Other+109 moreHATZOLOH EMS OF NEW SQUARE INC: $3,000 · HealthBIKUR CHOLIM INC: $3,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF TJJ CHASIDEI SQUARE INC: $2,500 · ReligionMIFAL MAYUNES INC: $2,006 · ReligionFRIENDS OF KOLLEL SQUARE BNEI BRAK INC: $2,280 · InternationalSHARE OF NEW SQUARE INC DBA CHESED 247: $2,000 · Food & NutritionBonei Olam Inc: $1,225 · Human ServicesLITAHER CENTER INC: $180 · Human Services
Other$1,011,038Health$6,000Religion$4,506International$2,280Food & Nutrition$2,000Human Services$1,405

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHATZOLOH EMS OF NEW SQUARE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF TJJ CHASIDEI SQUARE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF KOLLEL SQUARE BNEI BRAK INC: $2,280 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMIFAL MAYUNES INC: $2,006 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OF NEW SQUARE INC DBA CHESED 247: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $1,225 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYAD LYISROEL INC: $250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLITAHER CENTER INC: $180 over 1y, 0.1% 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 HATZOLOH EMS OF NEW SQUARE INC ↗
  • Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF TJJ CHASIDEI SQUARE 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 FundNY35.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · The Gds Foundation · Ani Mamin Foundation · Lodz Charitable Trust · Breuer Charitable Foundation Inc · Mtw Services Inc · The Pillars Trust · Cco Services · Rachels Foundation · Torah & Chesed Fund · Dove Holdings · Schonfeld Tzodoko Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 124 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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