· Public charity
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $130,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,983,148 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,852,648 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLS | $29,000 |
| DENVER ACADEMY OF TORAH | $14,500 |
| MACHNE ISRAEL | $14,500 |
| TORAH ACADEMY OF BERGEN COUNTY | $14,500 |
| ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY | $14,500 |
| CHABAD OF NORTH TEXAS INC | $14,500 |
| MAIMONIDES SCHOOL | $14,500 |
| MARGOLIN HEBREW ACADEMY | $14,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- AAAKIBAYAVNEH ACADEMY5× · 2017–2022 · $80k · revenue +305%
- DADENVER ACADEMY OF TORAH2× · 2019–2023 · $29k · revenue +44%
- SSSOILLE SAN DIEGO HEBREW DAY SCHOOL2× · 2019–2021 · $29k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- YOYESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue +28%
- NENEW ENGLAND HEBREW ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue -39%
- MSMAIMONIDES SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $17k
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.
Religious School
YBH of Passaic, a K-8 yeshiva in Passaic, New Jersey, emphasizes the primacy of Torah and Yiras Shomayim and offers a serious and comprehensive General Studies curriculum. YBH stresses the importance of middos tovos and acting with…
A school-section 170(b)(1)(a)(ii), operating from the preschool pre-k level through high school, and chartered ny the new york state education department and board of regents.
Or hachaim academy is a jewish religious school currently serving children from pre-school to 8th grade. in addition to jewish religious training, the school follows the educational curriculum as required by the state of california. the…
To instill in its students a personal love for and commitment tohashem, the study and practice of torah, halacha, and jewish values asa way of life, and a love for the state of israel and the jewishpeople.
A religious school providing teaching facilities of jewish faith, history, literature, jewish life and ideals.
The mesivta high school of greater philadelphia is a jewish orthodox boys' high school, educating students in grades 9-12 in torah and secular disciplines.
To provide education in general and judiac studies
A jewish orthodox high school
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
To operate a high school offering religious instruction and general studies as well as a post high school program of talmudic studies. the school shall be run under the standards of orthodox jewish law and tradition.
Awaken. build. connect. tehiyah day school is a jewish community school committed to: awakening intellectual curiosity and a strong sense of jewish identity; building a culture of thoughtfulness ad ethical behavior; connecting learners to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Jewish Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Yeshiva of Los Angeles Girls High School. 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 32 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 YESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds AKIBAYAVNEH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DENVER ACADEMY OF TORAH ↗
- Who funds SOILLE SAN DIEGO HEBREW DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA JEWISH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER HEBREW HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Oakland Hebrew Day School ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS TORAH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Maimonides Hebrew Day School ↗
- Who funds TORAH ACADEMY OF BERGEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds POLITZ DAY SCHOOL OF CHERRY HILL A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Miami Hebrew Academy ↗
- Who funds KOHELET YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT NOAM ↗
- Who funds HILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA OF LOS ANGELES GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HILLEL TORAH NORTH SUBURBAN DAY SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Prizmah Center for Jewish Day Schools Inc · Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Yeshiva University · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Our Jewish Children Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Fjc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Ma Tov Charitable Foundation Co Sam Vogel · Jlrj Inc
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 Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary 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.
- Torah Academy of Bergen County — 1% 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.