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Rodef Chesed DBA Ahavas Chesed

To distribute funds to non-profit organizations who are exempt under section 501 C 3 of the Internal Revenue Code or the equivalent, thereof in foreign countries.

$9.5M
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$875k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Religion$7.5MHuman Services$495kPhilanthropy$8kInternational$5k
02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $2,282,013, the rows itemized in this filing. The $9,547,607 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,265,594 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $259k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
$313,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$951k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ruach Chaim$874,838
Machon Mashe Rockeach Inc$835,126
Kollel Metziyonim Lhoroah Of$313,500
Keren Chasdei Moshe$153,549
Congregation Tiferes Yaakov$105,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Jes 2016 Inc: $85k → 20%Jes 2016 Inc: $55k → 20%We Are Your Children Inc: $26k → 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.0M · 13 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
20

Total granted

$7.0M
$755k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+105%

Still filing today

23%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $314k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23
ReligionHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MM
    MACHON MASEH ROCKEACH INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +29%
  • YI
    YAAZORU INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +81%
  • J2
    JES 2016 INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $140k · revenue +39% · 45% of their budget

Funded once

  • AE
    AVRAHAM EZKOR
    one grant, 2022 · $300k
  • NY
    NACHLAS YITZCHOK
    one grant, 2022 · $67k
  • CB
    CONG BORUCH YECHESKEL INC
    one grant, 2019 · $61k
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
Rodef Chesed Dba Ahavas Chesed

To distribute funds to non-profit organizations who are exempt under section 501 C 3 of the Internal Revenue Code or the equivalent, thereof in foreign countries.

Philanthropy
2
Yeshivat Ner Yisroel Inc

To provide financial and other assistance to educational institutions. to solicit, accept, hold and invest, reinvest and administer funds exclusively for charitable, educational, religious purposes.

Philanthropy
3
Beis Yosef Chaim Inc

To provide financial assistance to religious and charitable organizations worldwide to help them continue their activities.

Philanthropy
4
Yad Eliezer Usa Inc

Granting distibutions to Organizations that qualify as exempt Organinzations under section 501 (C)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code and/or the equivalent thereof in foreign…

Human Services
5
Yeshiva Gedolah Rabbinical College Inc

Provide college level education and extensive background of jewish law and talmudic studies and rabbinical ordination.

Education
6
Kollel Chazon Ish

To make grants to religious and charitable organizations

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7
Rinas Bais Yaakov Inc

Rinas bais yaakov, inc was established for the charitable purpose of promoting jewish education and jewish identity.

Arts & Culture
8
National Torah Initiative

To support and develop jewish educational institutions

Religion
9
Yeshiva Beit Rafael

Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.

Philanthropy
10
Keren Avrum Yosef Inc

To provide assistance to jewish religious schools

Philanthropy
11
Congregation Bnos Yakov

To provide religious instruction & education to jewish children. to operate a religious school and all matters pertaining to the religious and secular aspects of operating a school.

Education
12
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neki Chapayim Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jes 2016 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

8 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. 8 of the 34 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RUACH CHAIM: $1,720,901 · OtherRUACH CHAIMKOLLEL SHAREI TZION LMETZYONIM: $599,590 · OtherKOLLEL SHAREI TZION LMETZYONIMBINYAN YERUSHLAIM: $504,000 · OtherBINYAN YERUSHLAIMKEREN CHASDEI MOSHE: $368,927 · OtherKEREN CHASDEI MOSHEKOLLEL METZIYONIM LHOROAH OF WILLIAMSBURG: $313,500 · OtherKOLLEL METZIYONIM LHOROAH OF WILLIAMSBURGAVRAHAM EZKOR: $300,000 · OtherAVRAHAM EZKORCONG MERKAS OLUMI: $174,580 · OtherCONGREGATION TIFERES YAAKOV: $156,611 · Other+18 more: $465,027 · Other+18 moreMACHON MASEH ROCKEACH INC: $2,072,033 · Arts & CultureMACHON MASEH ROCKEACH INCYAAZORU INC: $1,117,400 · ReligionYAAZORU INCKOLLEL NER NAFTALI: $60,588 · Religion+1 more: $25,000 · ReligionJES 2016 INC: $139,907 · Human ServicesWe Are Your Children Inc: $26,000 · Human ServicesPaamonim: $8,000 · PhilanthropyYESHIVA CHASIDEI BELZ BELZ INSTITUTIONS IN ISRAEL: $5,026 · International
Other$4,603,136Arts & Culture$2,072,033Religion$1,202,988Human Services$165,907Philanthropy$8,000International$5,026

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMACHON MASEH ROCKEACH INC: $2,072,033 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetYAAZORU INC: $1,117,400 over 2y, 10% of budgetJES 2016 INC: $139,907 over 2y, 45% of budgetWe Are Your Children Inc: $26,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPaamonim: $8,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetYESHIVA CHASIDEI BELZ BELZ INSTITUTIONS IN ISRAEL: $5,026 over 1y, 0.1% 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 MACHON MASEH ROCKEACH INC ↗
  • Who funds YAAZORU INC ↗
  • Who funds JES 2016 INC ↗
  • Who funds KOLLEL NER NAFTALI ↗
  • Who funds We Are Your Children Inc ↗
  • Who funds Neki Chapayim Inc ↗
  • Who funds Paamonim ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA CHASIDEI BELZ BELZ INSTITUTIONS IN ISRAEL ↗

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 FundNY51.2× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Bikur Vezrat Cholim Inc · Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Inc · The Miriam and Esther Foundation · Aron and Shaindy Grossman Foundatio · Enkess Charitable Foundation Trust The · Chaim V'Shulem Foundation Inc · The Strasbourg Foundation · American Friends of Bnai Levy Foundation · Sara Rechnitzer Foundation · Pledger Charitable Ltd · Yeshiva Chasidei Belz Belz Institutions in Israel

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 Rodef Chesed DBA Ahavas Chesed funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rodef Chesed DBA Ahavas Chesed. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 34 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $8.4M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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