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S O Charitable Trust

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.

$365k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
30%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$54,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 44
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$8.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations S O Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’21’22’23
ReligionInternationalHealthPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving23$365k26%
FY202323$830k30%
FY202244$1.0M52%
FY202138$587k100%
FY20191$396k100%
FY20181$475k100%
FY20171$579kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.3MReligion$1.6MHuman Services$265kPublic Safety & Disaster$206kInternational$28kArts & Culture$19kPhilanthropy$10kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rabbinical Seminary of America$375,0003n/a
Chayim V Chesed$159,00030%
Hatzolah Emergency Air Response Team Inc$156,00041%
Ohr Naava$135,00032%
Mifal Ezra Zichron Yehide$129,0004n/a
Amidei Zion of Bobov Inc$125,0003n/a
Kollel Avreichim of Brooklyn$124,0004n/a
Jerusalem Open House$118,0004n/a
Yeshiva Shaarei Tzion$85,0004n/a
Hatzalah South Florida Emergency Medcial Services Inc$50,0001n/a
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All grantees of S O Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rabbinical Seminary of America$375,0003n/a
Chayim V Chesed$159,00030%
Hatzolah Emergency Air Response Team Inc$156,00041%
Ohr Naava$135,00032%
Mifal Ezra Zichron Yehide$129,0004n/a
Amidei Zion of Bobov Inc$125,0003n/a
Kollel Avreichim of Brooklyn$124,0004n/a
Jerusalem Open House$118,0004n/a
Yeshiva Shaarei Tzion$85,0004n/a
Hatzalah South Florida Emergency Medcial Services Inc$50,0001n/a
United Charity of Jerusalem$35,00033%
Congregation Yeshiva Yad Moishe$25,0001n/a
Cong Chasdei Yitzchok$25,0004n/a
Kahal Tefilo Lemoshe$25,0001n/a
Congregation Ohavei Torah$22,5002n/a
Congregation Ahavas Tzdokah Vchesed Inc$21,5002n/a
Tzedakah Vchesed Inc$20,00021%
Chabad on Campus International Inc$20,00020%
Congregation Keren Shivim$19,8001n/a
Boca Raton Kollel$18,6003n/a
United Mosdos Torah Veyirah Yerusholyim Inc$18,0001n/a
Mesorah Heritage Foundation$18,00010%
Mesivta of Great Neck Inc$15,0002n/a
Mikvah USA Inc$11,00010%
Congregation Tiferes Yaakov$10,0001n/a
Morasha Olami Inc$10,00010%
Home Sweet Home$10,0001n/a
Keren Menachem$10,0001n/a
American Friends of the Kiev Jewish Community$10,00010%
Jewish Community of Rostov$10,00011%
Project Chazon Inc$10,00022%
Chabad Lubavitch of Idaho Inc$10,0001n/a
Rachel's Place Charitable Trust$10,0001n/a
Cong Gmc$7,5002n/a
Friends of Chana UK Inc$7,50017%
Chabad Israel Jewish Center Inc$5,0001n/a
American Friends of Chasdei Lev$5,00011%
Share of New Square Inc Dba Chesed 247$5,00010%
Congregation Ramat Schlomo$5,0001n/a
Congregation Pozna$4,5001n/a
Congregation Ohel Yakov$3,6002n/a
Keren Ezer Lnefesh$3,60010%
Mesamche Lev-Viyoel Moishe Inc$2,6001n/a
Iyun Haparsha Inc$2,50010%
Binyan Yerushlaim$2,5001n/a
Chonen Vnosen$1,8001n/a
American Friends of Yeshiva Halacha L'Moshe Inc$1,80010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget S O Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChayim V Chesed: $159,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHatzolah Emergency Air Response Team Inc: $156,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetOhr Naava: $135,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetUnited Charity of Jerusalem: $35,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTzedakah Vchesed Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetChabad on Campus International Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMesorah Heritage Foundation: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMikvah USA Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMorasha Olami Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Kiev Jewish Community: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Community of Rostov: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetProject Chazon Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFriends of Chana UK Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Chasdei Lev: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetShare of New Square Inc Dba Chesed 247: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKeren Ezer Lnefesh: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIyun Haparsha Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Yeshiva Halacha L'Moshe Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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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 FundNY48.8× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · The Chesed Global Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Fjc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Bcg Charitable Foundation · The Levitin Family Charitable Trust · Zecher Avrohom Inc

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.

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Find your warmest path to S O Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About S O Charitable Trust

How much does S O Charitable Trust give?
S O Charitable Trust reported 23 grants totaling $365,036 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does S O Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (52%), Religion (36%), Human Services (6%).
Who are S O Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rabbinical Seminary of America ($375k), Chayim V Chesed ($159k), Hatzolah Emergency Air Response Team Inc ($156k).
Does S O Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does S O Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as S O Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation, The Chesed Global Foundation Inc.
Where is S O Charitable Trust based?
S O Charitable Trust is based in NY.

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 79 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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