How much does Shai Charitable Trust give?

Shai Charitable Trust reported 1 grants totaling $14,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.

What does Shai Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (64%), Religion (24%), Human Services (5%).

Who are Shai Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ayil Institute Inc ($395k), Bnos Bracha Inc ($49k), Yeshiva Shaarei Tzion ($22k).

Does Shai Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2018, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Shai 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 Shai Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc, Donors Fund Inc.

Where is Shai Charitable Trust based?

Shai Charitable Trust is based in NJ.

Shai Charitable Trust

Shai Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Shai Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$14k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$14k

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 2024.

Arts & Culture$395kReligion$148kHuman Services$33kEducation$24kHealth$11kFood & Nutrition$1kInternational$1k

02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$14,000

Median grant

States reached

$15k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CONGREGATION ZICHRON REB MORDECHAI	$14,000

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of its 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.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$536k · 12 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$536k

$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+191%

Still filing today

25%

20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyInternationalFood & NutritionArts & CultureHealthOther

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

BB
BNOS BRACHA INC
2× · 2017–2018 · $49k · revenue +12%
RC
ROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC
2× · 2017–2018 · $9k · revenue +179%
YO
YESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM INC
2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +17%

Funded once

BM
Beth Medrash Govoha
one grant, 2018 · $10k
YC
YESHIVAS CHSAN SOFER INC
one grant, 2018 · $7k
IM
ICHUD MOSDOT GUR
one grant, 2018 · $5k

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.

Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

Bnei Moshe

Philanthropy

The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation

—

Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

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

Education

Birchas Yaakov Kollel Inc

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

—

Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

Yeshiva Bais Mordechai of Teaneck

To provide religious Jewish education.

Education

Mesivta Keren Orah

To conduct and maintain a religious school in accordance with the tenets, traditions and precepts of the orthodox jewish faith.

Education

Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion

Friends of Meor Israel

Education and religious activities and research

Education

Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship

Religion

Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

8/8

Grantees still filing

8/8

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$532,956Education$63,000Philanthropy$9,000Arts & Culture$4,000Health$1,875International$1,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

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 FundNY24.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Donors Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Jonathan & Esther B Rosenberg Foundation · Terumah Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving 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 Shai Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shai Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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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More from the funding graph

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

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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