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Simchas Dovid Foundation at a glance

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Simchas Dovid Foundation

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.

$199k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$1.7MPhilanthropy$990kHealth$58kInternational$32kHuman Services$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
$175,200
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION BNAI YESHIA$175,200
FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$24,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YESHIVA TORAS CHEMED INC: $18k → 9%TOV V CHESED FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CONGREGATION SHAREI EZRA INC: $10k → 14%ROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY: $30k → 20%YESHIVA TORAS CHEMED INC: $10k → 9%TOV VCHESED: $4k → 14%CONGREGATION YETEV LEV: $7k → 20%TSHEBINER YESHIVA KOHAV MIYAACOV: $10k → 14%CONGREGATION YETEV LEV: $7k → 20%CONGREGATION YETEV LEV: $6k → 20%CONGREGATION YETEV LEV: $6k → 20%CONGREGATION YESHIVA LOMDEI TORAH: $10k → 20%YESHIVA BNOS AHAVAS ISRAEL: $87k → 20%YESHIVA BNOS AHAVAS ISRAEL: $79k → 20%CONG KHAL TZEMACH TZADIK VIZNITZ: $26k → 20%KOLLEL EREV UBOKER ODEH HASHEM: $23k → 20%CONG TZEMACH TZADIK VIZNITZ: $10k → 20%CONG TZEMACH TZADIK VIZNITZ: $10k → 20%KOLLEL EREV UBOKER ODEH HASHEM: $10k → 20%CONG KHAL TZEMACH TZADIK VIZNITZ: $10k → 20%YETEV LEV INC: $8k → 20%KHAL CHASIDEI BELZ: $6k → 20%HISACHDUS AVREICHEM OF YETEV LEV: $5k → 20%CONGREGATION BNAI YESHIA: $175k → 20%CONGREGATION BNAI YESHIA: $166k → 20%CONGREGATION BNAI YESHIA: $166k → 20%CONGREGATION BNAI YESHIA: $150k → 20%CONGREGATION BNAI YESHIA: $140k → 20%CONGREGATION BNAI YESHIA: $130k → 20%CONGREGATION BNAI YESHIA: $121k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MERKAZ: $24k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS RAMOT TORAH SCHOOL: $5k → 20%THE OJC FUND: $275k → 20%THE OJC FUND: $131k → 20%BETH HAMEDRASH DGARDEN HILLS: $93k → 20%THE OJC FUND: $30k → 20%YESHIVA OHR YOSEPH: $11k → 20%THE OJC FUND: $8k → 20%MESAMCHE LEV-VIYOEL MOISHE INC: $6k → 20%CONG VIZNITZ DKHAL TORAS CHAIM: $5k → 20%NEVEI HACHESED: $21k → 20%ONEG SHABBOS AND YOM TOV: $20k → 20%NEVEI HACHESED: $19k → 20%ONEG SHABBOS AND YOM TOV: $10k → 20%ONEG SHABBOS AND YOM TOV: $10k → 20%CHESED VOLUNTEERS OF WILLIAMSBURG: $18k → 20%YESHIVA OHR YISROEL: $12k → 20%MACHNE OHEL MOSHE DKRASNA: $12k → 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 17 repeat orgs$280k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
23

Total granted

$1.5M
$280k

Still filing today

0%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyReligionInternationalOther
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

  • CB
    CONGREGATION BNAI YESHIA
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M
  • YB
    YESHIVA BNOS AHAVAS ISRAEL
    2× · 2021–2022 · $166k
  • OS
    ONEG SHABBOS AND YOM TOV
    3× · 2019–2022 · $40k

Funded once

  • BH
    BETH HAMEDRASH DGARDEN HILLS
    one grant, 2022 · $93k
  • RC
    ROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -5%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MERKAZ CHASIDEI VIZNITZ INC
    one grant, 2018 · $24k · revenue -1%
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
Tov V Chesed Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
3
The Yad Moach Vlev Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Tzemach Yifroch Foundation
—
5
Ahavas Torah V'chesed
Philanthropy
6
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship
Religion
8
Yad Yosef Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Ohel Yakov Foundation
—
10
Zichron Boruch Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Zichron Chaim Meir Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chayim V Chesed; the most unlike its peers is Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel. 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

7 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. 7 of the 42 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION BNAI YESHIA: $1,048,920 · OtherCONGREGATION BNAI YESHIAYESHIVA BNOS AHAVAS ISRAEL: $166,000 · OtherYESHIVA BNOS AHAVAS ISRAELBETH HAMEDRASH DGARDEN HILLS: $93,000 · OtherBETH HAMEDRASH DGARDEN HILLS+31 more: $375,272 · Other+31 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $528,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS …THE OJC FUND: $444,000 · EducationTHE OJC FUNDROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyYESHIVA OHR YISROEL: $11,800 · PhilanthropyTHE TOV VCHESED FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyYETEV LEV INC: $8,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MERKAZ CHASIDEI VIZNITZ INC: $23,500 · InternationalCHAYIM V CHESED: $3,600 · Religion
Other$1,683,192Community Improvement$528,000Education$444,000Philanthropy$59,800International$23,500Religion$3,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $528,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OJC FUND: $444,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MERKAZ CHASIDEI VIZNITZ INC: $23,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE TOV VCHESED FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetCHAYIM V CHESED: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE OJC FUND ↗
  • Who funds ROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MERKAZ CHASIDEI VIZNITZ INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TOV VCHESED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YETEV LEV INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAYIM V CHESED ↗

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 FundZelig and Rifky Weiss…Guardian Family Found…Bochner FoundationThe Lexicon Foundatio…American Friends of B…Jack Adjmi Family Fou…Chasdei Chaya Foundat…Kanfei Yoneh Foundati…Hps FoundationKeren Ish FoundationB&M Steinmetz Foundat…
The Ojc FundNY40.8× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Zelig and Rifky Weiss Family Foundation Inc · Guardian Family Foundation Inc · Bochner Foundation · The Lexicon Foundation Inc · American Friends of Bnai Levy Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Chasdei Chaya Foundation Tr · Kanfei Yoneh Foundation · Hps Foundation · Keren Ish Foundation · B&M Steinmetz Foundation

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 Simchas Dovid Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Simchas Dovid Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Simchas Dovid Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Simchas Dovid Foundation 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.

    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 42 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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