· Private foundation
The Arta Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Arta Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year The Arta Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $100k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k6 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YESHIVA TORAS EMECHO | $60,000 |
| CHEDER TORAS ZEV | $10,000 |
| YESHIVA DERECH CHAIM | $10,000 |
| YESHIVA NACHLEI TORAH | $5,000 |
| I S KOSLOFF TORAH ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION BNOS DEVORAH | $5,000 |
| HAKOLLEL KS | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERETZ HEMDAH | $2,000 |
| LINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE | $500 |
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 (FY20–20, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +78% since the first grant, against +58% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YTYESHIVA TORAS IMECHO INC3× · 2018–2020 · $155k
- LSLINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE INC3× · 2018–2020 · $6k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERETZ HEMDAH4× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- JTJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $1k
- YDYESHIVA DARCHEI TORAHone grant, 2017 · $100
- CLCHAI LIFELINE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100 · revenue +58%
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.
Religious School
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
A religious school providing teaching facilities of jewish faith, history, literature, jewish life and ideals.
A post-secondary school offering an educational program in talmudic study
A school-section 170(b)(1)(a)(ii), operating from the preschool pre-k level through high school, and chartered ny the new york state education department and board of regents.
A jewish secondary school which seeks to inculcate its students with high character and religious values to produce future religious leaders
Yeshiva toras aron is a religious elementary school providing quality education for grades k-8 for the children of lakewood nj.
To provide secondary high school education in Brooklyn, NY
Private day school serving grades pre-k3 through 8.
Education
Religious Teaching
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 17 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA DERECH CHAIM ↗
- Who funds CHEDER TORAS ZEV ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERETZ HEMDAH ↗
- Who funds IS KOSLOFF TORAH ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA NACHLEI TORAH INC ↗
- Who funds West Side Hatzoloh ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · The Ohr Hakotel Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Arta Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Arta Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cheder Toras Zev: 17% of income from government
- Yeshiva Nachlei Torah Inc: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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