· Private foundation
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 Donors Fund Inc, 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
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 +61% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 48 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Noah and Linda Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Noah and Linda Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yeshiva Orchos Chaim Inc: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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