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The Donors Fund
To simplify charitable giving and thereby encourage benevolent philanthropy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 388 grants below total $10,510,502 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $12,272,551 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,762,049 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k172 grants · $1.2M
- $10k–50k179 grants · $3.7M
- $50k–250k34 grants · $3.5M
- $250k+3 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AHAVAS TZEDOKOS CORP | $1,112,437 |
| TOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP | $609,458 |
| CONGREGATION AHAVAS CHESED & TORAH | $456,302 |
| CONGREGATION BAIS YOSEF KLEINVERDAN INC | $201,000 |
| CONGREGATION CHEVRA SHAS INC | $181,744 |
| CONGREGATION ZICHRONE BINYAMIN | $177,296 |
| CONGREGATION ZICHRON YISROEL INC | $169,155 |
| SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH HIDDEN INTELLI | $166,437 |
| CONGREGATION FOREST GLEN INC | $165,253 |
| CONGREATION YESHIVA BAIS YISROEL INC | $146,465 |
| SIFREI ALGAZI | $141,906 |
| CONGREGATION ZICHRON MOSHE INC | $135,885 |
| YESHIVA KEREN ORAH | $127,306 |
| JEWISH CHARITY REVIEW INC | $125,336 |
| CONGREGATION YESODE HATORAH | $114,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
80 repeat relationships — 80 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 306 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ATAHAVAS TZEDOKOS CORP2× · 2017–2018 · $1.4M · revenue +19%
- TTTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP2× · 2017–2018 · $925k · revenue +474%
- AYANIYEI YERUSHALAYIM INC2× · 2017–2018 · $116k · revenue +688%
Funded once
- ATAHAVAS TOMCHEI TZEDAKA VCHESADone grant, 2017 · $267k
- TOTORAH ORE SEMINARYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $72k · revenue +74%
- TJTHE JAVNE FUND co ODONOGHUE & LAMB CPAS PLLCone grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue -71%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Religious Teaching
Religious School
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
To operate a high school offering religious instruction and general studies as well as a post high school program of talmudic studies. the school shall be run under the standards of orthodox jewish law and tradition.
Support of religious schools in Israel
Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
Provide a building for a religious school.
To provide religious Jewish education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Torah Education of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Keren America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
130 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 130 of the 426 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Ojc Fund · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Toras Chesed Inc · The Sorala Foundation · Jacob and Malka Fischer Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · Yes Ben Dovid Foundation Inc · The Jmg Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Donors Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Yeshivas Ohr Hatorah Inc — 28% of income from government
- Cheder Toras Zev — 22% of income from government
- Bnos Melech of Lakewood Inc — 21% of income from government
- Tiferes Bais Yaakov Inc — 16% of income from government
- Bnos Bracha Inc — 9% of income from government
- Yeshiva Shagas Aryeh Inc — 9% of income from government
- Yeshiva Toras Aron Inc — 8% of income from government
- Mesivta Nezer Hatorah — 7% of income from government
- Yeshiva Orchos Chaim Inc — 5% of income from government
- Tashbar of Lakewood Inc — 4% of income from government
- Yeshiva Tiferes Torah Inc — 3% of income from government
- Yeshiva Tiferes Boruch — 2% of income from government
- Bnos Esther Malka Inc — 2% of income from government
- Yeshiva Gedolah Keren Hatorah Inc — 1% of income from government
- Torah Education of America Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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