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Mzl 40 Foundation

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.

$60k
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$419kInternational$55kHealth$51kPhilanthropy$47kHuman Services$25kEducation$19kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k48 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
$360
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHABAD OF THE FIVE TOWNS$18,560
YESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH$6,640
CONGREGATION AISH KODESH$5,001
EMUNAH OF AMERICA$4,625
CONGREGATION SONS OF ISRAEL$2,985
KULANU$2,000
ASSOCIATED BETH RIVKA SCHOOLS$2,000
KEREN OR$1,800
NCFJE$1,800
CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM$1,500
YOUNG ISRAEL OF DEERFIELD BEACH$1,031
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM$1,000
LEVI YITZCHAK FAMILY CENTER$1,000
RAV CHESED$1,000
SHARSHERET$720
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HILLEL OF ROCKLAND COUNTY: $100 → 14%THE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $500 → 11%AVIGDORS HELPING HAND: $500 → 13%BIKUR CHOLIM OF MIAMI BEACH: $360 → 15%AVIGDOR'S HELPING HAND: $500 → 13%BIKUR CHOLIM OF MIAMI BEACH: $360 → 15%AVIGDOR'S HELPING HAND: $360 → 13%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHER YEHUDI: $5k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHER YEHUDI: $2k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHER YEHUDI: $500 → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $118 → 6%KEREN HACHOMESH INC: $94 → 20%KIMPATORIN AID: $2k → 20%THE MARIAN & AARON GURAL JCC: $6k → 6%THE MARIAN & AARON GURAL JCC: $5k → 6%ATIME: $260 → 20%MARION AND AARON GURAL JCC: $3k → 6%THE MARION AND AARON GURAL JCC: $2k → 6%KIMPATORIN AID: $180 → 20%MARION AND AARON GURAL JCC: $1k → 6%BONEI OLAM: $180 → 20%AL KANFEI NESHARIM: $360 → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CA
DC
GA
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$580k · 69 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

69 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
74

Total granted

$580k
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+27%

Still filing today

38%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
InternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • KO
    KEREN OR INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +72%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CHABAD OF HEBRON INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +36%
  • KI
    KULANU INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • OS
    OHR SOMAYACH INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue -41%
  • CO
    CHABAD OF WEST ORANGE
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
3
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
4
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
5
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
6
Gemilas Chesed Kramer Inc
Philanthropy
7
Sherit Isroel
—
8
The Keren Rachaim Fund
—
9
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
10
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Kehillas Shivtei Yeshurun Inc

Assistance to establish a community in ramat beit shemesh, israel, founded upon torah principles, prayer, justice, charity and kindness to all peoples. to encourage and promote jewish religious activities.

Religion
12
Nefesh Chaim Inc
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Camp Extreme D/B/a Project Extreme. 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

56 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. 56 of the 165 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/56
Grantees still filing
40/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NCFJE: $54,000 · OtherNCFJECHABAD OF FIVE TOWNS: $48,460 · OtherCHABAD OF FIVE TOWNSCHABAD OF THE FIVE TOWNS INC: $45,760 · OtherCHABAD OF THE FIVE TOWNS INCEMUNAH WOMEN OF AMERICA: $43,473 · OtherEMUNAH WOMEN OF AMERICAGJCF: $41,514 · OtherGJCFEZRAT ISRAEL INC: $40,250 · OtherEZRAT ISRAEL INCCHABAD OF 5 TOWNS: $26,700 · OtherEMUNAH WOMEN: $23,820 · OtherKIDS OF COURAGE INC: $17,500 · Other+111 more: $168,220 · Other+111 moreKULANU INC: $18,000 · InternationalKULANU IN…EMUNAH OF AMERICA INC: $17,625 · InternationalEMUNAH OF…Central Fund of Israel: $8,000 · InternationalCentral F…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC: $8,000 · InternationalAMERICAN …AMIT CHILDREN INC: $2,765 · International+7 more: $4,316 · International+7 moreKEREN OR INC: $29,600 · EducationOholei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch: $1,600 · EducationAMERICANS AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $1,500 · Education+5 more: $3,540 · EducationTHE MARION AND AARON GURAL JCC INC: $17,130 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHER YEHUDI: $7,300 · Human ServicesKIMPATORIN AID INC: $1,980 · Human ServicesAVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC: $1,360 · Human Services+8 more: $2,332 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF CHABAD OF HEBRON INC: $20,000 · ReligionCANTOR'S WORLD LTD: $1,000 · Religion+1 more: $360 · ReligionTHE SHOLOM & PESSY JACOBS FOUNDATION INC: $5,250 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $3,800 · PhilanthropyYaldei Shluchei Harebbe Special Needs Organization: $2,500 · Philanthropy+6 more: $1,298 · PhilanthropyHATZALAH OF THE ROCKAWAYS & NASSAU COUNTY INC: $5,550 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$509,697International$58,706Education$36,240Human Services$30,102Religion$21,360Philanthropy$12,848Public Safety & Disaster$5,550

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKEREN OR INC: $29,600 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHABAD OF HEBRON INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetKULANU INC: $18,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC: $17,625 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS OF COURAGE INC: $17,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MARION AND AARON GURAL JCC INC: $17,130 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC: $8,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHER YEHUDI: $7,300 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetOHR SOMAYACH INTERNATIONAL INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH: $6,640 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHATZALAH OF THE ROCKAWAYS & NASSAU COUNTY INC: $5,550 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHOLOM & PESSY JACOBS FOUNDATION INC: $5,250 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $3,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMIT CHILDREN INC: $2,765 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYaldei Shluchei Harebbe Special Needs Organization: $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKIMPATORIN AID INC: $1,980 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAKOR CHAIM USA INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOholei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch: $1,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICANS AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC: $1,360 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF THE FIVE TOWNS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LEVI YITZCHAK FAMILY CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $970 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $970 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM OF MIAMI BEACH INC: $720 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIRYAT SANZ LANIADO HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEON MAYER FUND INC: $480 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYAFFED INC: $360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BIKUR CHOLIM EZRAT ACHIM: $360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN HORAINU INC: $360 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRachels Children Reclamation Foundation: $360 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUST ONE LIFE INC: $336 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME: $280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMADRAIGOS INC: $280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Chest South Shore: $280 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange: $260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVKAH LAUFER BIKUR CHOLIM: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEBRON FUND INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSimchas Yom Tov Inc: $180 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BARUCH UMARPEH: $180 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MESHI INC: $180 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 KEREN OR INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CHABAD OF HEBRON INC ↗
  • Who funds KULANU INC ↗
  • Who funds EMUNAH OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS OF COURAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARION AND AARON GURAL JCC INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHER YEHUDI ↗
  • Who funds OHR SOMAYACH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds HATZALAH OF THE ROCKAWAYS & NASSAU COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SHOLOM & PESSY JACOBS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds AMIT CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds Yaldei Shluchei Harebbe Special Needs Organization ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Ojc FundCross River Community…Ip FoundationThe Margules Foundati…The J W FoundationAssociated Jewish Cha…Royal Heritage Founda…Nash Charity Foundati…Zichron Chaim Charity…Jack Adjmi Family Fou…The Neuman Family Fou…
Jewish Communal FundNY47.4× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Cross River Community Foundation · Ip Foundation · The Margules Foundation Inc · The J W Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Royal Heritage Foundation Inc · Nash Charity Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Neuman Family 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 Mzl 40 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mzl 40 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Rabbinical College of America: 5% of income from government
  • The Special Children Center: 5% of income from government
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Mzl 40 Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mzl 40 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.

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 165 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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