· 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 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.
How this is measured
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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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
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 +63% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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
How this is measured
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 -96% · 59% of their budget
- K4KARS 4 KIDS INCone grant, 2023 · $1.3M · revenue +3%
- KIKOLLEL INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2023 · $100k
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 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…
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…
Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
To conduct and maintain a religious school in accordance with the tenets, traditions and precepts of the orthodox jewish faith.
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
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide funds to needy individuals in the state of israel.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 20 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 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 YESHIVAS TORAS ZEV INC ↗
- Who funds MORESHET BAT SHEVA - ORCHOT YOSHER ↗
- Who funds KEREM BAIS YAAKOV SEMINARY INC ↗
- Who funds STATEN ISLAND YESHIVA 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 tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Oorah Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oorah Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Kars 4 Kids Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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