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Noah and Linda 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
96% of Noah and Linda 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 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Noah and Linda Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $299k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $126k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE DONOR FUND | $65,000 |
| MESIVTA OF CLIFTON | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| YESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM | $30,000 |
| YESHIVA GEDOLA OF SOUTH JERSEY | $25,000 |
| YESHIVA SHAAREI ORAH | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NACHLAS SHIMON | $12,000 |
| CONG OHEL TORAH | $6,300 |
| CONG BAIS SHOLOM | $1,000 |
| BAIS MEDRASH MAYAN HATORAH | $500 |
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 (FY20–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 12 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- YOYESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM INC3× · 2019–2022 · $68k · revenue +61%
- MOMESIVTA OF CLIFTON INC2× · 2018–2022 · $55k · revenue +100%
- YSYESHIVA SHAAREI OORAH INC3× · 2017–2022 · $43k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE BRISKER YESHIVA INCone grant, 2017 · $42k
- CBCONGREGATION BNOS YAAKOV INCone grant, 2020 · $38k · revenue +13%
- SGSTAM GEMILAS CHESED FUND INCone grant, 2019 · $30k
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.
To conduct and maintain a religious school in accordance with the tenets, traditions and precepts of the orthodox jewish faith.
Religious School
To provide religious Jewish education.
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
To support schools of religious studies.
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
A post-secondary school offering an educational program in talmudic study
Furtherance of jewish education
Providing jewish and secular education for high school girls.
A jewish secondary school which seeks to inculcate its students with high character and religious values to produce future religious leaders
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mesivta of Clifton Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Project Raanana. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
15 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. 15 of the 48 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
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 JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds DONORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM INC ↗
- Who funds MESIVTA OF CLIFTON INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA SHAAREI OORAH INC ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION BNOS YAAKOV INC ↗
- Who funds OR MEIR ↗
- Who funds Bonei Olam Inc ↗
- Who funds A Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PROJECT RAANANA ↗
- Who funds LEV BEREL INC ↗
- Who funds BAIS MEDRASH L'TORAH A NJ NONPROFIT CORP ↗
- Who funds MIKVAH USA INC ↗
- Who funds MESIVTA OF NORTH JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds BAIS MEDRASH MAYAN HATORAH ↗
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 Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Jdb Charitable Foundation · Lakewood Cheder School Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Aar Charitable Foundation · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc
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 Noah and Linda Foundation 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.
- Yeshiva Orchos Chaim Inc — 5% 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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