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Mns Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $235,940 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $341,820 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $105,880 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k9 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Tomchei Tora BEretz Yisrael | $134,540 |
| EOM | $32,000 |
| KHZY | $22,500 |
| The Donors Fund | $16,250 |
| OJC | $10,500 |
| Tzur Foundation | $6,150 |
| Sorala Foundation | $4,000 |
| Mesivta Ohr Chaim Meir | $3,500 |
| Meon High School | $3,000 |
| Talmudical Acadamey of Phila | $1,860 |
| Yeshiva Gedolah Be'er Hatorah | $600 |
| Relief | $500 |
| MTJ | $360 |
| Tomchei Shabbos of Lakewood | $180 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 14% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
56 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 46 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- COCONG OROS BAIS YAAKOV OF LAKEWOOD2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +60%
- LCLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC2× · 2017–2018 · $17k · revenue +48%
- MAMesivta Ahavas Hatorah2× · 2017–2018 · $7k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- KSKsav Sofer Incone grant, 2017 · $33k
- CGCong. Gates of Mercyone grant, 2020 · $10k
- TYTIFERES YISROEL INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +932%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Parochial elementary school with a focus on sephardic tradition.
Operation of a parochial elementary school, providing education services to students
Operation of a parochial grade school in lakewood, new jersey.
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
Cheder toras zev operates a parochial grade school in lakewood, new jersey.
The organization operates a religious/parochial high school and college in lakewood, nj.
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
Parochial secondary school.
Providing jewish and secular education for high school aged girls.
Masores bnos yisroel is a religious elementary school providing quality education for the children of lakewood nj.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mesivta Meromei Tzvi Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ksav Sofer Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 21% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 131 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Ksav Sofer Inc ↗
- Who funds DONORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CONG OROS BAIS YAAKOV OF LAKEWOOD ↗
- Who funds LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TIFERES YISROEL INC ↗
- Who funds Mesivta Ahavas Hatorah ↗
- Who funds TIFERES BAIS YAAKOV INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM INC ↗
- Who funds BNOS ORCHOS CHAIM INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Donors Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Toras Chesed Inc · Dirshu International Inc · David Rosenbaum Family Foundation · Ray & Sharon Haber Foundation Inc · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Lakewood Cheder School Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mns Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bnos Melech of Lakewood Inc — 21% of income from government
- Tiferes Bais Yaakov Inc — 16% of income from government
- Mesoras Hatorah Inc — 11% of income from government
- Yeshiva Chayei Olam — 10% of income from government
- Bet Yaakov of the Jersey Shore Inc — 9% of income from government
- Bnos Bracha Inc — 9% of income from government
- Bais Tova Inc — 7% of income from government
- Yeshiva Orchos Chaim Inc — 5% of income from government
- Tiferes Yisroel Inc — 5% of income from government
- Beis Hachinuch Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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