· Public charity
National Society for Hebrew Day Schools
Religious services, religious & educational programs & assistance to hebrew day schools
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 269 grants below total $26,863,346 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $44,604,509 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $17,741,163 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 · FY2021
- Under $10k50 grants · $354k
- $10k–50k147 grants · $3.0M
- $50k–250k52 grants · $5.4M
- $250k+20 grants · $18M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND | $5,500,360 |
| KESHET FOUNDATION | $3,200,000 |
| NOTZER CHESED | $1,797,195 |
| GEMILOS CHASODIM CHASDEI MOSH | $995,000 |
| CONG BETH MEDRASH GOVOHA | $980,600 |
| JEWISH STUDY NETWORK | $845,000 |
| LIH MEMORIAL GRANT FUND | $516,000 |
| JEWISH RENAISSANCE EXPERIENCE | $491,200 |
| YESHIVA SHAAREI TORAH | $482,500 |
| HOME SWEET HOME | $420,000 |
| CONG YAD SHAUL | $350,000 |
| LAKEWOOD CHEDAR SCHOOL | $309,800 |
| CONG LEV SIMCHA | $300,000 |
| BETH MEDROSH GOVOHA OF NY | $290,000 |
| IN HIS IMAGE CHARITABLE TRUST | $276,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $691k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $26M on the FY2022 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: EDUC. & RELIG.
Stated purpose: EDUC. & RELIG.
Stated purpose: EDUC. & RELIG.
Stated purpose: EDUC. & RELIG.
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
230 repeat relationships — 193 still active in FY2021, 37 since wound down; 59 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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
- JRJEWISH RENAISSANCE EXPERIENCE INC3× · 2019–2021 · $1.4M · revenue +39% · 84% of their budget
- LMLIH MEMORIAL GRANT FUND3× · 2019–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +158%
- IHIN HIS IMAGE3× · 2019–2021 · $804k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- KLKollel - Los Angelesone grant, 2020 · $2.0M
- CNCONGREGATION NEUSTADT INCone grant, 2019 · $500k
- CBCONGREGATION BAIS GAVRIELone grant, 2020 · $457k
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.
Religious Teaching
Religious School
To operate a high school offering religious instruction and general studies as well as a post high school program of talmudic studies. the school shall be run under the standards of orthodox jewish law and tradition.
Yeshiva chayei olam inc., was established for the purpose of having an orthodox jewish high school. the school teaches talumdic studies, talmudic jurasprudence, orthodox jewish ethics and the old testament. in addition, the school provides…
Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.
A religious school providing teaching facilities of jewish faith, history, literature, jewish life and ideals.
A school-section 170(b)(1)(a)(ii), operating from the preschool pre-k level through high school, and chartered ny the new york state education department and board of regents.
Support of religious schools in Israel
The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Migdal Bais Yaakov Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dirshu International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
180 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. 180 of the 428 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds KESHET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH STUDY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Kollel - Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RENAISSANCE EXPERIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds LIH MEMORIAL GRANT FUND ↗
- Who funds BETH MEDRASH GOVOHA OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds IN HIS IMAGE ↗
- Who funds VAAD HARABBANIM L'INYANEI TZEDUKA INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA SHAGAS ARYEH INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOLF FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEIRA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT DARCHE ERES INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA TORAS ARON INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOFFBERGER INSTITUTE FOR TEXT STUDY INC D/B/A ALEPH BETA ↗
- Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA ↗
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: Donors Fund Inc · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Ojc Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · The Jmg Foundation · The Sorala Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Ahavas Avraham Foundation · The Fishoff Family Foundation
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 National Society for Hebrew Day Schools 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.
- Yeshivas Ohr Hatorah Inc — 28% of income from government
- Mesoras Hatorah Inc — 11% of income from government
- Yeshiva Shagas Aryeh Inc — 9% of income from government
- Yeshiva Toras Aron Inc — 8% of income from government
- Mesivta Kesser Torah of Baltimore Inc — 5% of income from government
- Yeshiva Orchos Chaim Inc — 5% of income from government
- Torah Academy of Jacksonville Inc — 4% of income from government
- Tashbar of Lakewood Inc — 4% of income from government
- Nachlas Bais Yaakov — 2% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
- Mesorah Heritage Foundation — 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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