How much does Serefit Corp give?

Serefit Corp reported 36 grants totaling $511,165 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Serefit Corp fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (65%), Health (25%), International (3%).

Who are Serefit Corp's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Yeshiva Shaarei Chaim ($719k), Chai Lifeline Inc ($389k), Congregation Lev Simcha ($85k).

Does Serefit Corp fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Serefit Corp 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 Serefit Corp?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore.

Serefit Corp

Serefit Corp at a glance

· Private foundation

Serefit Corp

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.

$511k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$200k

Largest

01What it funds

0187% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$1.1MHealth$405kInternational$44kArts & Culture$21kPhilanthropy$21kFood & Nutrition$10kHuman Services$9kCivil Rights$9kOther$0

02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k29 grants · $40k
$10k–50k4 grants · $86k
$50k–250k3 grants · $385k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
YESHIVA SHAAREI CHAIM	$200,000
CHAI LIFELINE	$100,000
CONG LEV SIMCHA	$85,000
BASIS MEDRASH CHODOSH	$40,371
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BELZ	$26,000
MAARAT HAMACHPALA FUND INC	$10,000
YESHIVA OHR YEHUDA	$10,000
TIFERES YAAKOV	$7,000
CHESED FUND SHEMIRAS	$6,357
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$2,500
CHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE FOUNDATION	$2,000
KEREN OLAM HATORAH	$1,500
FRIENDS OF ZICHRON MEIR INC	$1,500
CONGREGATION TORAH UTEFILAH	$1,500

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 33 repeat orgs$242k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+42%

Still filing today

45%

49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesReligionArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationOther

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

CL
CHAI LIFELINE INC
6× · 2018–2024 · $389k · revenue +44%
YO
YESHIVA OHR YEHUDA INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $79k · revenue +217%
CF
Central Fund of Israel
4× · 2019–2022 · $20k · revenue +145%

Funded once

SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +51%
HI
HONESTREPORTINGCOM INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +125%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +53%

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.

Sherit Isroel

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American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion

Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion

Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education

American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion

American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah

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American Friends of Kehillas Shivtei Yeshurun Inc

Assistance to establish a community in ramat beit shemesh, israel, founded upon torah principles, prayer, justice, charity and kindness to all peoples. to encourage and promote jewish religious activities.

Religion

American Friends of Shviti Hashem Inc

To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.

Religion

American Friends of Birkat Haaretz Inc

The purpose of Birkat Haaretz is to promote the laws of shmitta accordance to Jewish law.

Religion

American Friends of Daas Aharon Inc

To promote, assist, and sponsor the spreading of Jewish religious education in Israel. The organization will also organize inspirational gatherings in the USA to enhance the participants' Torah knowledge.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Israel Fund Ltd; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

43 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. 43 of the 98 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/43

Grantees still filing

27/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,048,726Health$388,780Education$79,780International$41,700Arts & Culture$28,000Religion$27,441Housing & Shelter$26,000

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.

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 FundNY35.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Ganger Foundation Inc · The Sorala Foundation · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · Alyad Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Eisner Charitable Foundation Inc · Terumah Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Serefit Corp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Serefit Corp. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

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.

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How do I get to Serefit Corp?

Find your warmest path to Serefit Corp 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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home