· Private foundation
Mgw Foundation Inc
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 · FY2020
- Under $10k16 grants · $46k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KOLLEL YATEV LEV DJERUSALEM | $160,000 |
| YESHIVAS DVAR TORAH INC | $8,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| CONGREGATION AHAVAS CHESED D BOBOV | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION ZICHRON DOVID | $4,670 |
| BEIS SEFER GOVOHA LEBANOS SARA SCHE | $3,400 |
| YESHIVA KOL TORAH INC | $3,300 |
| REBBE TALMID INC | $3,000 |
| BAIS KAILA TORAH PREP HIGH SCHOOL | $2,200 |
| YOUNG ISRAEL OF MIDWOOD | $2,200 |
| BNAI ISRAEL JEWISH CENTER | $2,100 |
| CONGREGATION BAIS AVRAHAM D'KRULA | $1,250 |
| CONGREGATION ZICHRON YOSEF | $1,120 |
| YAD SHIFRA INC | $1,000 |
| BAIS MEDRESH LEVUSH HAORA PONZA | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YDYESHIVAS D'VAR TORAH INC2× · 2019–2020 · $17k · revenue +120%
- YKYESHIVA KOL TORAH INC3× · 2018–2020 · $12k · revenue +48%
- YSYAD SHIFRA INC4× · 2017–2020 · $4k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $60k
- CACONGREGATION ANSHEI SFARDone grant, 2017 · $6k
- AOAF OF IGDAL OHRone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
Religious Teaching
Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.
To promote torah study
Provide college level education and extensive background of jewish law and talmudic studies and rabbinical ordination.
Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.
Provide support to further jewish education
To support organizations in israel that promote and encourage the study of jewish literary works including the study of the torah, mishna and talmud.
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
publish religious books
To support and develop jewish educational institutions
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 38 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: Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · The Jmg Foundation · Donors Fund Inc · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · The Sorala Foundation · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mgw Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mgw Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yeshiva Kol Torah Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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