· Private foundation
Shemen 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION TOLDOS YAAKOV YOSEF | $16,000 |
| KOLEL SHOMREI HACHOMOS OF JERUSALEM | $2,500 |
| DONORS FUND INC | $2,000 |
| CONG NER YISROEL | $1,876 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,414 |
| KEREN HATZEDAKA | $1,307 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KHKEREN HATZEDAKA INC3× · 2022–2024 · $5k · revenue +6%
- TFTZUR FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $4k · revenue +28%
- TTTALMUD TORAH BAIS AVROHOM INC2× · 2022–2023 · $4k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- KMKAHAL MEKOR CHAIMone grant, 2020 · $45k
- CSCONGREGATION SHEMEN LMINCHA INCone grant, 2017 · $15k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OHR SOMAYACH INCone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue -66% · 36% of their budget
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.
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.
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
Operation of a parochial elementary school, providing education services to students
Providing religious and secular education for elementary school aged children.
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
The purpose of this organization is to support indigent torah scholars and their families by providing stipends and additional funds at jewish holiday times.
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Parochial elementary school with a focus on sephardic tradition.
Support of tzohar-a school for special needs children located in israel
Providing jewish education to high school age students.
The organization operates an elementary school with the goal of achieving academic excellence and personal growth.
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 48 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds DONORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OHR SOMAYACH INC ↗
- Who funds BNOS ORCHOS CHAIM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC ↗
- Who funds Kolel Shomre Hachomos of Jerusalem Inc ↗
- Who funds KEREN HATZEDAKA INC ↗
- Who funds TIFERES BAIS YAAKOV INC ↗
- Who funds BAIS TOVA INC ↗
- Who funds TZUR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TALMUD TORAH BAIS AVROHOM INC ↗
- Who funds CHARIDY 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.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Donors Fund Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Fund for Life Foundation Inc · Greenzweig Family Foundation · The Sorala Foundation · Mns Foundation · CCG Foundation a NJ Nonprofit Corporation · Igcf Inc · Chaim Maleh Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shemen Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shemen Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Tiferes Bais Yaakov Inc: 16% of income from government
- Bais Tova Inc: 7% of income from government
- Yeshiva Tiferes Torah Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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