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Mns Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$342k
Granted FY2023
14
Itemized grants FY2023
14
Organizations funded FY2023
29%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$236k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$134,540
Organizations funded a year
14 to 74
FY2017 to FY2023
Total assets, FY2023
$14k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Mns Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202314$236k29%
FY202219$267k37%
FY202114$232k43%
FY202015$66k80%
FY201865$310k35%
FY201774$265kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$1.5MEducation$77kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kPhilanthropy$28kArts & Culture$3kYouth Development$2kFood & Nutrition$1kHuman Services$78Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ksav Sofer Inc$33,0001n/a
Cong Oros Bais Yaakov of Lakewood$20,00020%
Lakewood Cheder School Inc$16,60020%
Cong Ahavas Chesed$9,7002n/a
Yeshiva Chemdas Hatorah Inc$8,2002n/a
Tiferes Yisroel Inc$7,5001n/a
Mesivta Ahavas Hatorah$7,40020%
Tiferes Bais Yaakov Inc$7,00020%
Yeshiva Orchos Chaim Inc$6,95020%
Cong Keser Torah$5,0001n/a
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All grantees of Mns Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ksav Sofer Inc$33,0001n/a
Cong Oros Bais Yaakov of Lakewood$20,00020%
Lakewood Cheder School Inc$16,60020%
Cong Ahavas Chesed$9,7002n/a
Yeshiva Chemdas Hatorah Inc$8,2002n/a
Tiferes Yisroel Inc$7,5001n/a
Mesivta Ahavas Hatorah$7,40020%
Tiferes Bais Yaakov Inc$7,00020%
Yeshiva Orchos Chaim Inc$6,95020%
Cong Keser Torah$5,0001n/a
Bnos Orchos Chaim Inc$5,00020%
Yeshivas Novominsk$3,8802n/a
Bais Shaindel$3,35020%
Beis Hachinuch Inc$3,0001n/a
Services for Children With Hidden Intelligence$3,00010%
Bnos Bracha Inc$2,75010%
Bais Tova Inc$2,50010%
Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel Inc$2,5001n/a
Yeshiva Chayei Olam$2,4002n/a
Mesoras Hatorah Inc$2,25020%
Mesivta of North Jersey Inc$2,00020%
Bet Yaakov of the Jersey Shore Inc$2,00010%
Yeshiva Stolin Karlin$2,0001n/a
Talmud Torah Bais Avrohom Inc$1,42521%
Tomchei Shabbos D'Lakewood Inc$1,30020%
Mesivta Meromei Tzvi Inc$1,20020%
Ateres Tzipora Inc$1,00010%
Bnos Melech of Lakewood Inc$85010%
Chesed Lavraham$8001n/a
American Friends of Darchei Hashleimus Inc$76911%
Alumni of the Rabbinical College Knesseth Israel of Slabodka Kowna$50010%
Cong Bais Mordechai Inc$5001n/a
Mesivta Ohr Chaim Meir Inc$4001n/a
Bnos Rochel$1651n/a
Congregation Zichron Moshe Inc$1251n/a

Plus 91 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mns Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCong Oros Bais Yaakov of Lakewood: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLakewood Cheder School Inc: $16,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMesivta Ahavas Hatorah: $7,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTiferes Bais Yaakov Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYeshiva Orchos Chaim Inc: $6,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBnos Orchos Chaim Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBais Shaindel: $3,350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetServices for Children With Hidden Intelligence: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBnos Bracha Inc: $2,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBais Tova Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMesoras Hatorah Inc: $2,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMesivta of North Jersey Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBet Yaakov of the Jersey Shore Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTalmud Torah Bais Avrohom Inc: $1,425 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTomchei Shabbos D'Lakewood Inc: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMesivta Meromei Tzvi Inc: $1,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAteres Tzipora Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBnos Melech of Lakewood Inc: $850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Darchei Hashleimus Inc: $769 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAlumni of the Rabbinical College Knesseth Israel of Slabodka Kowna: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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 FundDonors Fund IncJewish Communal FundJack Adjmi Family Fou…Toras Chesed IncDirshu International …David Rosenbaum Famil…Ray & Sharon Haber Fo…Regina Goldwasser Fou…Zichron Btz Tzedakah …Jewish Community Foun…Lakewood Cheder Schoo…
The Ojc FundNY39.5× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Mns Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mns Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Mns Foundation

How much does Mns Foundation give?
Mns Foundation reported 14 itemized grants totaling $235,940, out of $341,820 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 74 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Mns Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (64%), Education (3%), Public Safety & Disaster (1%).
Who are Mns Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Ksav Sofer Inc ($33k), Cong Oros Bais Yaakov of Lakewood ($20k), Lakewood Cheder School Inc ($17k).
Does Mns Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mns Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mns Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Donors Fund Inc, Jewish Communal Fund.
Where is Mns Foundation based?
Mns Foundation is based in NJ.

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 127 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $258k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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