· Public charity
Oorah Inc
Oorah was established as a jewish outreach organization for the purpose of imparting education,values and traditions, as well as guidance and support, to children who lack access to these fundamentals.
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.
The 5 grants below total $777,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,960,563 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,183,363 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $667k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION OORAH | $667,150 |
| KHAL BNEI TORAH | $50,000 |
| AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA | $35,000 |
| YESHIVA CHEMDAS HATORAH | $20,000 |
| YESHIVA OF STATEN ISLAND | $5,050 |
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 (FY24–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 — $8.6M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: TO PROMOTE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
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 +63% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- COCONGREGATION OORAH7× · 2017–2025 · $7.5M
- YCYESHIVA CHEMDAS HATORAH INC4× · 2022–2025 · $59k
- TFTZUR FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $18k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- JFJUNK FOR JOY INCone grant, 2024 · $1.4M · revenue 0% · 59% of their budget
- K4KARS 4 KIDS INCone grant, 2023 · $1.3M · revenue +3%
- KIKOLLEL INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
To conduct and maintain a religious school in accordance with the tenets, traditions and precepts of the orthodox jewish faith.
Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
To provide financial support to the yeshiva knesseth yisroel institution, its rabbis, and students, and lend support to other religious institutions in israel and around the world, with the goal of furthering jewish values among the jewish…
To expend, contribute, and otherwise dispose of its money, and other property to further jewish religious scholarship by contributing to or otherwise voluntarily financially assisting needy religious institutions, or students, both in the…
Organization raises funds which are disbursed to religious schools of higher education and talmudic research
To conduct a school for Hebrew religious education
To provide religious Jewish education.
Promoting education by providing financial assistance and support services to educational organizations worldwide; to promote the jewish religion and jewish education through provision of educational programs, assisting the creation of…
Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide funds to needy individuals in the state of israel.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshivas Toras Zev Inc and the most unlike its peers is Davis Memorial Fund Inc. 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 16 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) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
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 20 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 JUNK FOR JOY INC ↗
- Who funds KARS 4 KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TZUR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MORESHET BAT SHEVA - ORCHOT YOSHER ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAS TORAS ZEV INC ↗
- Who funds KEREM BAIS YAAKOV SEMINARY INC ↗
- Who funds STATEN ISLAND YESHIVA 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Donors Fund Inc · The Ojc Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · 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 Oorah 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Kars 4 Kids Inc — 0% 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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