Skip to content

· Public charity

Ohr Shmuel Inc

To support charitable, educational, religious institutions and individuals in financial distress.

$458k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Religion$701kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $343k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$369k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$100,000
Lev Rochel Bikur Cholim$90,000
Cong Ahavas Chesed & Torah$52,500
Kesser Torah Mayan HaTalmud$50,000
Cong Knesses Bais Aaron$50,000
Torah Relief Society$45,000
CONGREGATION SHAAREI ORAH$35,000
KEREN BNEI YOSEF$25,000
Kollel Ohr Shmuel$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 44% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%Torah Relief Society: $45k → 14%KEREN BNEI YOSEF: $75k → 20%Lev Rochel Bikur Cholim: $90k → 11%KEREN BNEI YOSEF: $55k → 20%Lev Rochel Bikur Cholim: $65k → 11%KEREN BNEI YOSEF: $25k → 20%Cong Ahavas Chesed & Torah: $53k → 11%CONGREGATION SHAAREI ORAH: $75k → 20%Cong Knesses Bais Aaron: $50k → 11%CONGREGATION SHAAREI ORAH: $50k → 20%Kesser Torah Mayan HaTalmud: $50k → 11%CONGREGATION SHAAREI ORAH: $35k → 20%CONGREGATION LUTZK: $15k → 11%VARIOUS CHARITIES: $11k → 11%Kollel Ohr Shmuel: $10k → 11%CONGREGATION LUTZK: $8k → 11%VARIOUS CHARITIES: $7k → 11%Congregation Walden Woods: $100k → 11%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.
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$511k · 5 repeat orgs$308k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$511k
$308k

Still filing today

0%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $308k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
InternationalReligionOther
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

  • CS
    CONGREGATION SHAAREI ORAH INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $160k
  • LR
    Lev Rochel Bikur Cholim
    2× · 2023–2024 · $155k
  • KB
    KEREN BNEI YOSEF
    3× · 2022–2024 · $155k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • CA
    Cong Ahavas Chesed & Torah
    one grant, 2024 · $53k
  • KT
    Kesser Torah Mayan HaTalmud
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
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
04the grantee network

2 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 of the 11 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
0/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION SHAAREI ORAH INC: $160,000 · OtherCONGREGATION SHAAREI ORAH INCLev Rochel Bikur Cholim: $155,000 · OtherLev Rochel Bikur CholimKEREN BNEI YOSEF: $155,000 · OtherKEREN BNEI YOSEFIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCong Ahavas Chesed & Torah: $52,500 · OtherCong Ahavas Chesed & TorahKesser Torah Mayan HaTalmud: $50,000 · OtherKesser Torah Mayan HaTalmudCong Knesses Bais Aaron: $50,000 · OtherCong Knesses Bais Aaron+2 more: $40,800 · Other+2 moreTORAH RELIEF SOCIETY INC EZRAS TORAH FUND: $45,000 · InternationalKOLLEL OHR SHMUEL INC: $10,000 · Religion
Other$763,300International$45,000Religion$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTORAH RELIEF SOCIETY INC EZRAS TORAH FUND: $45,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKOLLEL OHR SHMUEL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% 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 TORAH RELIEF SOCIETY INC EZRAS TORAH FUND ↗
  • Who funds KOLLEL OHR SHMUEL INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Ohr Shmuel Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ohr Shmuel Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ohr Shmuel Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Ohr Shmuel Inc 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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Ohr Shmuel’s filings →

    More from the funding graph