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Rabbi Joshua Heschel Foundation Inc at a glance

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Rabbi Joshua Heschel Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$244k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0151% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$342kEducation$40kHuman Services$25kPhilanthropy$12kHealth$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $161k
$3,600
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MESIVTA KEREN ORAH$37,270
VARIOUS$30,635
Beis Hachinuch$19,000
Avihem$18,000
Individual grant recipient$14,750
CONGREGATION SHEMEN LMINCHA$11,800
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OHEV YISROEL$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
TZUR FOUNDATION$10,000
YAD LACHIM$8,600
Individual grant recipient$8,100
Freehold Kollel$8,000
Individual grant recipient$5,400
Individual grant recipient$3,600
TORAH MEMORY PALACE$3,600
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Avihem: $18k → 20%AVIHEM: $7k → 20%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.
$504k · 22 repeat orgs$312k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
32

Total granted

$504k
$207k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+14%

Still filing today

36%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • MK
    MESIVTA KEREN ORAH
    3× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +24%
  • BT
    BAIS TOVA INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $26k · revenue +48%
  • AI
    AVIHEM INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • YK
    YESHIVA KEREN ORAH
    one grant, 2023 · $43k
  • CM
    CONGREGATION MIKVAH TAHARA OF YETEV LEV INC
    one grant, 2021 · $24k
  • CK
    CONGREGATION KHAL TORAS CHAIM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
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

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.

1
Yeshivat Yagdil Torah Inc

Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.

Education
2
Yeshiva Ohr Yehuda Inc

Providing religious and secular education for elementary school aged children.

Education
3
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.

Education
4
Yeshiva Shaar Hatalmud

Providing jewish education to high school age students.

Education
5
Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc

Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students

Education
6
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
7
Birchas Yaakov Kollel Inc

Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith

—
8
Bais Yaakov Ohel Esther Inc

Operation of an educational institution for preschool and elementary school-aged children, providing both religous and secular education.

—
9
Cheder Shiras Hatorah Inc

Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.

Education
10
Yeshivas Toras Zev Inc

The purpose of this organization is to support indigent torah scholars and their families by providing stipends and additional funds at jewish holiday times.

Religion
11
Bais Yaakov Girls High School of Minneapolis

Providing jewish and secular education for high school aged girls.

Education
12
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva Nesivos Hatorah Inc; the most unlike its peers is Avihem Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 75 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $91,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $75,769 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYESHIVA KEREN ORAH: $43,020 · OtherYESHIVA KEREN ORAHVARIOUS: $30,635 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $28,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,540 · OtherCONGREGATION MIKVAH TAHARA OF YETEV LEV INC: $24,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $21,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,350 · Other+49 more: $240,300 · Other+49 moreMESIVTA KEREN ORAH: $59,570 · EducationMESIVTA KEREN ORAHBAIS TOVA INC: $26,000 · EducationBAIS TOVA INCBEIS HACHINUCH INC: $24,900 · EducationBEIS HACHINUCH INCLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC: $7,000 · EducationNACHLAS BAIS YAAKOV: $6,500 · EducationYESHIVA NESIVOS HATORAH INC: $6,500 · EducationORAYSA INC: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $3,600 · EducationTZUR FOUNDATION INC: $19,000 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OHEV YISRAEL: $12,000 · ReligionBIRCHAS YAAKOV INC: $4,800 · ReligionIYUN HAPARSHA INC: $3,600 · ReligionMOSDOS BETH YOSEF ZVI: $2,500 · ReligionAVIHEM INC: $25,200 · Human ServicesDONORS FUND INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyREFUAH V SIMCHA INC: $8,600 · PhilanthropyShinun Vchazarah Inc: $1,500 · Philanthropy
Other$600,314Education$139,070Religion$41,900Human Services$25,200Philanthropy$20,100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMESIVTA KEREN ORAH: $59,570 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetBAIS TOVA INC: $26,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAVIHEM INC: $25,200 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBEIS HACHINUCH INC: $24,900 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTZUR FOUNDATION INC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OHEV YISRAEL: $12,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetDONORS FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUAH V SIMCHA INC: $8,600 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNACHLAS BAIS YAAKOV: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA NESIVOS HATORAH INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORAYSA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBIRCHAS YAAKOV INC: $4,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYESHIVA KOL TORAH INC: $3,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIYUN HAPARSHA INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOSDOS BETH YOSEF ZVI: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShinun Vchazarah Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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 MESIVTA KEREN ORAH ↗
  • Who funds BAIS TOVA INC ↗
  • Who funds AVIHEM INC ↗
  • Who funds BEIS HACHINUCH INC ↗
  • Who funds TZUR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OHEV YISRAEL ↗
  • Who funds DONORS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds REFUAH V SIMCHA INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds NACHLAS BAIS YAAKOV ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA NESIVOS HATORAH INC ↗
  • Who funds ORAYSA INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRCHAS YAAKOV 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.

The Ojc FundDonors Fund IncJack Adjmi Family Fou…The Sorala FoundationJewish Community Foun…Jewish Communal FundZichron Btz Tzedakah …Zichron Yechiel Meche…Marbeh Shalom Foundat…Senior Community Serv…Toras Chesed IncAj & Sl Stern Family …
The Ojc FundNY50.3× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Donors Fund Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Sorala Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Communal Fund · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · Senior Community Services Inc · Toras Chesed Inc · Aj & Sl Stern Family Foundation

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 Rabbi Joshua Heschel Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rabbi Joshua Heschel Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Mesivta Keren Orah: 10% of income from government
  • Bais Tova Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Yeshiva Nesivos Hatorah Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Yeshiva Kol Torah Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Nachlas Bais Yaakov: 2% of income from government
  • Beis Hachinuch Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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.

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 75 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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