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Moshe & Simi Mehlman Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Moshe & Simi Mehlman Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$155k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$1.0MPhilanthropy$91kHealth$60kHuman Services$59kEducation$45kInternational$14kArts & Culture$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $125k
$1,800
Median grant
2
States reached
$57k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YESHIVA KHAL ZICHRON MORDECHAI$21,500
BONEI OLAM$20,360
VARIOUS CONTRIBUTIONS$19,088
BAIS MEDRASH OF FLATBUSH$18,000
KOLLEL BNEI YESHIVAS$18,000
CONGREGATION KOLLEL OF FLATBUSH$18,000
CONGREGATION BNEI YEHUDA$10,000
ZICHRON ELIYAHU INC$4,100
YESHIVA AND MESIVTA TORAH TEMIMA$3,275
CHAIM MEIR CAMP FUND$2,500
FLATBUSH COMMUNITY FUND INC$2,500
KHAL ZICHRON AVROHOM YAAK$1,860
REFUAH HELPLINE INC$1,800
BAIS YAAKOV ELEMENTARY OF ROCKLAND$1,650
KOLLEL ZICHRON YAAKOV YITZCHOK$1,600
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 (FY17–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KEREN ANIYIM: $1k → 17%KEREN ANIYIM: $1k → 17%YAD CHAYA INC: $1k → 14%ZICHRON MATTEL INC: $4k → 11%ZICHRON MATTEL INC: $2k → 11%ZICHRON MATTEL INC: $2k → 11%AHAVAS TZEDOKOS: $1k → 11%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER INC: $1k → 11%CHESED OF FLATBUSH SERVICES INC: $1k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $20k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $12k → 20%KEREN ANIYIM INC: $5k → 20%KEREN ANIYIM INC: $2k → 20%KEREN ANIYIM INC: $1k → 20%KEREN ANIYIM INC: $1k → 20%BOBBIES PLACE INC: $1k → 20%BOBBIES PLACE INC: $1k → 20%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 50 repeat orgs$159k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
63

Total granted

$1.5M
$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+15%

Still filing today

38%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationHealthPublic BenefitOther
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

  • GO
    GATEWAYS ORGANIZATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $49k · revenue +68%
  • TF
    THE FLATBUSH COMMUNITY FUND INC co BERNATH & ROSENBERG PC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $23k · revenue +17%
  • RH
    REFUAH HELPLINE INCDBA REFUAH RESOURCES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • CB
    CONGREGATION BETH AARON
    one grant, 2019 · $12k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHASDEI LEVgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +89%
  • CN
    CHEVRA NACHLAS JOSHUA
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
3
Zichron Meshilem Feish Inc

Provides finacial assistance to needy individuals and to religious, charitable organizations

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4
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Zicron Eliyahu Inc
—
6
Ohr Yosef Inc

To help disadvantaged children, widows and orphans by providing food, clothing, supplies and grants to charitable tax exempt organizations.

Philanthropy
7
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
8
Chasdei Yetev Lev Inc

Provide financial assistance to needy individuals, and to religious, educational, and charitable organizations in us and abroad.

—
9
Birchas Yaakov Kollel Inc

Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith

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10
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
11
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
12
Ezreinu Inc
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iyun Haparsha Inc; the most unlike its peers is Keren Dovid Eliezer 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

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 118 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
23/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS CONTRIBUTIONS: $165,725 · OtherVARIOUS CONTRIBUTIONSBAIS MEDRASH OF FLATBUSH: $131,250 · OtherBAIS MEDRASH OF FLATBUSHCONGREGATION KOLLEL OF FLATBUSH: $123,720 · OtherCONGREGATION KOLLEL OF FLATBUSHYESHIVA KHAL ZICHRON MORDECHAI: $104,370 · OtherYESHIVA KHAL ZICHRON MORDECHAIMIRRER YESHIVA: $103,100 · OtherMIRRER YESHIVAKHAL ZICHRON AVROHOM YAAKOV: $80,945 · OtherKHAL ZICHRON AVROHOM YAAKOVCONGREGATION TIFERES TZVI: $75,400 · OtherCONGREGATION TIFERES TZVIGATEWAYS: $65,300 · OtherPESHY BRUDNY CHARITY FUND: $52,000 · Other+76 more: $457,034 · Other+76 moreGATEWAYS ORGANIZATION INC: $49,300 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHASDEI LEV: $11,000 · ReligionOHR TORAH INC: $11,000 · ReligionZICHRON ELIYAHU INC: $7,460 · ReligionIYUN HAPARSHA INC: $4,000 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA HALACHA L'MOSHE INC: $3,500 · Religion+7 more: $10,100 · ReligionBonei Olam Inc: $32,510 · Human ServicesKEREN ANIYIM INC: $10,700 · Human ServicesZichron Mattel Inc: $7,800 · Human ServicesBOBBIES PLACE INC: $2,050 · Human Services+5 more: $5,250 · Human ServicesTHE FLATBUSH COMMUNITY FUND INC co BERNATH & ROSENBERG PC: $22,500 · PhilanthropyCHAIM MEIR CAMP FUND: $15,500 · PhilanthropyKEREN DOVID ELIEZER INC: $2,500 · Philanthropy+2 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyKEREN EVEN HABOCHEN INC: $15,100 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DAAS AHARON INC: $13,600 · EducationCATSKILLS HATZALAH INC: $7,000 · EducationREFUAH HELPLINE INCDBA REFUAH RESOURCES: $19,300 · HealthFLATBUSH VOLUNTEERS OF HATZOLOH INC: $1,500 · HealthFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $3,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,358,844Religion$96,360Human Services$58,310Philanthropy$42,500Education$35,700Health$20,800Arts & Culture$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGATEWAYS ORGANIZATION INC: $49,300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $32,510 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FLATBUSH COMMUNITY FUND INC co BERNATH & ROSENBERG PC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetREFUAH HELPLINE INCDBA REFUAH RESOURCES: $19,300 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHAIM MEIR CAMP FUND: $15,500 over 7y, 27% of budgetKEREN EVEN HABOCHEN INC: $15,100 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DAAS AHARON INC: $13,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHASDEI LEV: $11,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetOHR TORAH INC: $11,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetKEREN ANIYIM INC: $10,700 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetZichron Mattel Inc: $7,800 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetZICHRON ELIYAHU INC: $7,460 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCATSKILLS HATZALAH INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetIYUN HAPARSHA INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA HALACHA L'MOSHE INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetYESHIVA EITZ CHAIM OF HILLSIDE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN DOVID ELIEZER INC: $2,500 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetBOBBIES PLACE INC: $2,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFlatbush Shomrim Safety Patrol Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYAD YISROEL: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA OHR YITZCHOK: $1,550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMidrash David Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFLATBUSH VOLUNTEERS OF HATZOLOH INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeis Aharon VYisroel Inc DBA American Friends of Here Next Year: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHR NAAVA: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBL GIRLS TOWN JERUSALEM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIPAS TZEDUKAH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMATAT MORDECHAI: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHESED OF FLATBUSH SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKUPAS YOM TOV INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTZUR FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVYAZREIM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYAD CHAYA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 GATEWAYS ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Bonei Olam Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE FLATBUSH COMMUNITY FUND INC co BERNATH & ROSENBERG PC ↗
  • Who funds REFUAH HELPLINE INCDBA REFUAH RESOURCES ↗
  • Who funds CHAIM MEIR CAMP FUND ↗
  • Who funds KEREN EVEN HABOCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DAAS AHARON INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHASDEI LEV ↗
  • Who funds OHR TORAH INC ↗
  • Who funds KEREN ANIYIM INC ↗
  • Who funds Zichron Mattel Inc ↗
  • Who funds ZICHRON ELIYAHU INC ↗
  • Who funds CATSKILLS HATZALAH 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 FundJewish Communal FundJack Adjmi Family Fou…Eisenberg Family Foun…The Fishoff Family Fo…The Basch Family Foun…Zichron Chaim Charity…Donors Fund IncBcg Charitable Founda…Md Friedman Family Fo…The Jimmy and Berta K…Yisroel Aryeh and Lei…
The Ojc FundNY61× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Eisenberg Family Foundation Inc · The Fishoff Family Foundation · The Basch Family Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Donors Fund Inc · Bcg Charitable Foundation · Md Friedman Family Foundation · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · Yisroel Aryeh and Leib Foundation

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 Moshe & Simi Mehlman Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Moshe & Simi Mehlman Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    8get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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 118 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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