New York · Private foundation
Simchat Hayim Inc
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.
- $746k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 72
- Grants FY2025
- 62
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,256
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $74,583
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 62
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $50k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 65% of the organizations Simchat Hayim Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 72 | $746k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 62 | $657k | 65% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $266k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Friends of Yekerai Yerushalaim | $33,030 | 3 | 1% |
| American Friends of Yad Eliezer | $24,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hahaim Yeshivat Shalom Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ateret Torah Center | $4,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Magen Giborrim Inc | $4,455 | 2 | 2% |
| American Friends of Yad Yerushalayim | $4,200 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of Noam Eliezer Inc | $3,801 | 2 | 0% |
| Torah Ore Seminary | $1,800 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Yeshivat Mekor Chaim | $1,800 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 86 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Chehebar Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Simchat Hayim Inc
- How much does Simchat Hayim Inc give?
- Simchat Hayim Inc reported 72 grants totaling $746,165 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 62 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does Simchat Hayim Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (84%), Religion (14%), International (2%).
- Who are Simchat Hayim Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: American Friends of Yekerai Yerushalaim ($33k), American Friends of Yad Eliezer ($24k), Hahaim Yeshivat Shalom Inc ($10k).
- Does Simchat Hayim Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Simchat Hayim Inc 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 Simchat Hayim Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Chehebar Family Foundation.
- Where is Simchat Hayim Inc based?
- Simchat Hayim Inc is based in NY.
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