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National Society for Hebrew Day Schools

Religious services, religious & educational programs & assistance to hebrew day schools

$45M
Granted FY2021
269
Grants FY2021
21
States reached
$5.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

Religion$44MInternational$8.9MPhilanthropy$6.1MEducation$5.4MHousing & Shelter$1.3MCommunity Improvement$840kArts & Culture$653kHuman Services$652kOther$0
02FY2021 · 269 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 269 grants below total $26,863,346, the rows itemized in this filing. The $44,604,509 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $17,741,163 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k50 grants · $354k
  • $10k–50k147 grants · $3.0M
  • $50k–250k52 grants · $5.4M
  • $250k+20 grants · $18M
$20,250
Median grant
21
States reached
$63M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BONEI OLAM: $5k → 17%CHAIM LE CHAG INC: $43k → 9%GEMACH OF JACKSON: $25k → 11%AFO YAD ELIEZER INC: $6k → 11%CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE JEWISH: $8k → 19%PALO ALTO CHESED FUND: $50k → 8%PALO ALTO CHESED FUND: $45k → 8%PALO ALTO CHESED FUND: $45k → 8%MARBEH TZEDAKAH: $89k → 14%MARBEH TZEDAKAH: $30k → 14%MARBEH TZEDAKAH: $30k → 14%BIKUR CHOLIM: $10k → 17%ACHIEZER COMM RESOURCE CENTE: $7k → 6%BIKUR CHOLIM: $7k → 17%BIKUR CHOLIM: $6k → 17%RUSSIAN JEWISH COMM DEVEL: $22k → 11%AGUDATH ISRAEL OF OHIO: $9k → 17%ISRAEL MEDICAL FUND: $18k → 17%RUSSIA JEWISH COMM DEVELOP FU: $20k → 11%RUSSIAN JEWISH COMM DEVEL: $18k → 11%LAKEWOOD KESHER: $10k → 11%CHAYIM ARUCHIM: $15k → 20%KEREN ANIYIM: $12k → 20%KEREN ANIYIM: $12k → 20%KEREN ANIYIM: $12k → 20%CHAYIM ARUCHIM: $10k → 20%YAD ELIEZER: $105k → 20%RELIEF RESOURCES: $12k → 20%CHINU V CHISDA INC: $9k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
TX
FL

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.

Middle East and North Africa$13M · 53% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: EDUC. & RELIG.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$12M · 46% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: EDUC. & RELIG.

Sub-Saharan Africa$348k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: EDUC. & RELIG.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$53k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: EDUC. & RELIG.

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$50M · 230 repeat orgs$8.9M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

230
131

Total granted

$50M
$6.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+50%

Still filing today

38%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21
EducationReligionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalYouth 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

  • JR
    JEWISH RENAISSANCE EXPERIENCE INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $1.4M · revenue +39% · 84% of their budget
  • LM
    LIH MEMORIAL GRANT FUND
    3× · 2019–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +158%
  • IH
    IN HIS IMAGE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $804k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • KL
    Kollel - Los Angeles
    one grant, 2020 · $2.0M
  • CN
    CONGREGATION NEUSTADT INC
    one grant, 2019 · $500k
  • CB
    CONGREGATION BAIS GAVRIEL
    one grant, 2020 · $457k
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
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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3
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
4
Kollel Nefesh Hachaim Inc
Education
5
Yeshiva Keren Hatorah of Passaic- Clifton

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.

Education
6
Yeshiva Chayei Olam

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…

Education
7
Ohr Yisrael Yeshiva Inc

Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.

Religion
8
Yeshiva Har Torah

A religious school providing teaching facilities of jewish faith, history, literature, jewish life and ideals.

—
9
Yeshiva Derech Hatorah-Yeshivat Mizrachi Lbanim

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.

Education
10
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
11
Sherit Isroel
—
12
Torah Temimah Jerusalem

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Migdal Bais Yaakov Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

180 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. 180 of the 428 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.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
61
Early backer (in before they grew)
165/180
Grantees still filing
132/180
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NOTZER CHESED: $3,041,760 · OtherNOTZER CHESEDCONGREGATION TZEMACH DOVID OF DINAV: $2,355,000 · OtherCONGREGATION TZEMACH DOVID OF DINAVYESHIVA SHAAREI TORAH: $1,572,500 · OtherHOME SWEET HOME: $1,335,000 · OtherGEMILOS CHASODIM CHASDEI MOSHE: $1,274,000 · OtherYESHIVATH TORAH VODAATH: $1,118,000 · Other+122 more: $22,106,207 · Other+122 morePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $8,631,320 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND…KESHET FOUNDATION: $4,400,000 · PhilanthropyKESHET FOUNDATIONTHE WOLF FAMILY FOUNDATION: $650,000 · Philanthropy+7 more: $871,960 · Philanthropy+7 moreJEWISH STUDY NETWORK: $2,245,000 · ReligionJEWISH STUDY NET…Kollel - Los Angeles: $2,000,000 · ReligionKollel - Los Ang…JEWISH RENAISSANCE EXPERIENCE INC: $1,386,200 · ReligionJEWISH RENAISSAN…BETH MEDRASH GOVOHA OF NEW YORK INC: $881,600 · ReligionBETH MEDRASH GOV…VAAD HARABBANIM L'INYANEI TZEDUKA INC: $688,346 · ReligionVAAD HARABBANIM …YESHIVAT DARCHE ERES INC: $467,465 · ReligionTHE HOFFBERGER INSTITUTE FOR TEXT STUDY INC D/B/A ALEPH BETA: $440,833 · Religion+14 more: $1,473,819 · Religion+14 moreLIH MEMORIAL GRANT FUND: $1,204,000 · EducationLIH MEMORIA…YESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM INC: $666,568 · EducationYESHIVA ORC…YESHIVA SHAGAS ARYEH INC: $654,277 · EducationYESHIVA SHA…MEIRA ACADEMY: $525,000 · EducationMEIRA ACADE…YESHIVA TORAS ARON INC: $460,226 · EducationYESHIVA TOR…LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC: $323,750 · EducationYeshiva Tiferes Yisroel: $308,500 · EducationTALMUD TORAH BAIS AVROHOM INC: $298,960 · EducationTHE OJC FUND: $250,000 · EducationBAIS REUVEN KAMENETZ OF LAKEWOOD: $231,833 · Education+24 more: $1,788,845 · Education+24 moreIN HIS IMAGE: $804,000 · Community ImprovementMARBEH TZEDAKAH: $149,000 · Human ServicesPALO ALTO CHESED FUND INC: $140,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $111,810 · Human ServicesRUSSIAN JEWISH COMMUNITYDEVELOPMENT FUNDINC FORMERLY KNOWN AS HOSHEEA: $59,800 · Human ServicesCHAIM LECHAG INC: $43,000 · Human ServicesANCHOR MENTORING INC: $125,000 · Youth Development
Other$32,802,467Philanthropy$14,553,280Religion$9,583,263Education$6,711,959Community Improvement$804,000Human Services$503,610Youth Development$125,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $8,631,320 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetKESHET FOUNDATION: $4,400,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetJEWISH STUDY NETWORK: $2,245,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetJEWISH RENAISSANCE EXPERIENCE INC: $1,386,200 over 3y, 84% of budgetLIH MEMORIAL GRANT FUND: $1,204,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetBETH MEDRASH GOVOHA OF NEW YORK INC: $881,600 over 3y, 13% of budgetIN HIS IMAGE: $804,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetVAAD HARABBANIM L'INYANEI TZEDUKA INC: $688,346 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetYESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM INC: $666,568 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetYESHIVA SHAGAS ARYEH INC: $654,277 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetTHE WOLF FAMILY FOUNDATION: $650,000 over 2y, 75% of budgetMEIRA ACADEMY: $525,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetYESHIVAT DARCHE ERES INC: $467,465 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetYESHIVA TORAS ARON INC: $460,226 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTHE HOFFBERGER INSTITUTE FOR TEXT STUDY INC D/B/A ALEPH BETA: $440,833 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $394,800 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetOHR NOSSON INC: $364,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC: $323,750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetYeshiva Tiferes Yisroel: $308,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTALMUD TORAH BAIS AVROHOM INC: $298,960 over 3y, 81% of budgetTHE OJC FUND: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBAIS REUVEN KAMENETZ OF LAKEWOOD: $231,833 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetY T M CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetBNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $173,025 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOHR NAAVA: $172,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetOHR SOMAYACH INTERNATIONAL INC: $153,427 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $149,323 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMARBEH TZEDAKAH: $149,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetYESHIVAT OHEL TORAH: $143,100 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetPALO ALTO CHESED FUND INC: $140,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetSEPHARDIC GAN TORAT EMET INC: $137,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetKEREN YEHOSHUA V'YISROEL: $134,577 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTOMCHEI TORAH B'ERETZ YISRAEL INC TOMCHEI TORAH B'ERET: $129,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPASSAIC HEBREW INSTITUTE: $128,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetANCHOR MENTORING INC: $125,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetCLIFTON CHEDER INC: $115,700 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetYAD AHARON INC: $113,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $111,810 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCleveland Community Mikvah Inc: $111,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetCHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $100,199 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGLOBAL CENTER OF GUR INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWest Coast Vaad Hachesed: $100,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMUDIM COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $99,140 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetROBERT & ITA KLEIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetTORAH ACADEMY FOR GIRLS SHAAREI BIN: $87,400 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetRABBINICAL COLLEGE OF TELSHE INC: $84,400 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $79,880 over 3y, 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 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 ↗

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.

Donors Fund IncJewish Federation of …The Ojc FundJack Adjmi Family Fou…Jewish Community Foun…Associated Jewish Cha…Tidewater Jewish Foun…The Jmg FoundationThe Sorala FoundationZichron Chaim Charity…Ahavas Avraham Founda…The Fishoff Family Fo…
Donors Fund IncNJ92.9× affinity57 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 National Society for Hebrew Day Schools funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Society for Hebrew Day Schools. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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Find your warmest path to National Society for Hebrew Day Schools 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 428 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports $56M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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