· Public charity
Ohr Somayach International Inc
To support religious, charitable & educational programs and institutions
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $511,850 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,746,710 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,234,860 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
- $250k+1 grant · $416k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHR SOMAYACH NY | $415,890 |
| AM FRIENDS RABBIN COLLEGE | $65,960 |
| AM FRIENDS OF MESHECH CHOCHM | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Grants abroad, by region — $2.2M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: CHARIT · EDUC · EDUC.
Stated purpose: EDUC.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABBINICAL COLLEGE NETIV HADAAT INC6× · 2018–2023 · $253k · revenue +125%
- AFAmerican Friends of Meshech Chochma Ohr8× · 2017–2024 · $174k · revenue +281% · 92% of their budget
- RIRAJE-USA INC7× · 2017–2023 · $106k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- JLJEWISH LEARNING EXPERIENCEone grant, 2017 · $57k · revenue -98% · 29% of their budget
- CMCONGREGATION MENACHEM ZIONone grant, 2021 · $15k
- OYOHR YOSEF OF ROCKLAND COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
. A charitable and educational organization that helps bring unaffiliated Jews closer to their religion and practice by organizing Jewish studies
Supporting the activities of Kollel Toras Zeraim Jerusalem
Adult education in jewish religious subjects
Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.
To provide support for jewish religious education in israel and around the world, and financial support to charitable organizations enabling such entities to fulfill their charitable purpose.
charitable purpose of soliciting, collecting and raising money for the promotion and furtherance of Jewish religious knowledge and traditions through education, by funding scholarships covering tuition and related costs for needy students…
Support education in Israel
Religious Teaching
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Rabbinical College Netiv Hadaat Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Friends of Meshech Chochma Ohr. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 17 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABBINICAL COLLEGE NETIV HADAAT INC ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Meshech Chochma Ohr ↗
- Who funds Friends of Toras Chayim Educational Center of Ashkelon Inc ↗
- Who funds RAJE-USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY JEWISH EXPERIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH CHARITY REVIEW INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH LEARNING EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION HAMERKAZ INC ↗
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: Morasha Olami Inc · The Ojc Fund · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Ohr Somayach International Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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