· Private foundation
Ms Family 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
57% of Ms Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Donors Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Ms Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $33k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL | $5,605 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,130 |
| BAIS MEDRASH RUACH CHAIM | $5,000 |
| VARIOUS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS - AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST | $4,076 |
| SUPPORTERS OF TORAH | $3,000 |
| KEREN HASHVIIS | $1,300 |
| NEFESH | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $600 |
| AREIVIM USA | $504 |
| CHASDEI SHIMON INC | $360 |
| TOMCHEI TZEDAKAH | $200 |
| MESIVTA OF EATONTOWN | $180 |
| CHESED OF LAKEWOOD INC | $180 |
| CHAI LIFELINE | $180 |
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 (FY21–22, $690) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LCLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC3× · 2021–2023 · $17k · revenue +14%
- BMBAIS MEDRASH L'TORAH A NJ NONPROFIT CORP2× · 2021–2022 · $528 · revenue +36%
- CLCHAI LIFELINE INC2× · 2021–2022 · $360 · revenue +1%
Funded once
- FMFIRST MESIFTA OF CANADAone grant, 2021 · $2k
- CSCONG STOLIN KARLIN LAKEWOODone grant, 2021 · $2k
- TTAHAREINUone grant, 2021 · $2k
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 School
Support of tzohar-a school for special needs children located in israel
The furthurance of jewish concepts and religious beliefs.
Religious Teaching
Promoting study of Mishnah and other Jewish texts
The furtherance of primacy of orthodox jewish jurisprudence
Provide financial assistance to torah and talmudic scholars, as well as to other needy individuals and other organizations that work to promote these purposes.
A post-secondary school offering an educational program in talmudic study
To provide medical support to families in need
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 63 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.
- Who funds DONORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BNOS MELECH OF LAKEWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds KEREN HASHVIIS INC ↗
- Who funds MESIVTA OF NORTH JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds BAIS MEDRASH L'TORAH A NJ NONPROFIT CORP ↗
- Who funds VAAD HARABBANIM L'INYANEI TZEDUKA INC ↗
- Who funds KEREN ZICHRON YOSEF INC ↗
- Who funds CHASDEI SHIMON INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds DRESSED WITH DIGNITY INC ↗
- Who funds TOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP ↗
- Who funds A Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange ↗
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: Donors Fund Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Eycy Fund Inc · The Sorala Foundation · The Jmg Foundation · Sheena Foundation · The Yale Fishman Family Foundation · Toras Chesed Inc · The Fishoff Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ms Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ms Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bnos Melech of Lakewood Inc: 21% of income from government
How this is measured
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