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The Donors Fund

To simplify charitable giving and thereby encourage benevolent philanthropy.

$12M
Granted FY2018
388
Grants FY2018
8
States reached
$1.1M
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$9.9MHuman Services$2.7MEducation$558kHealth$361kPhilanthropy$318kInternational$85kEmployment$60kArts & Culture$51kOther$0
02FY2018 · 388 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 388 grants below total $10,510,502, the rows itemized in this filing. The $12,272,551 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,762,049 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
$10,808
Median grant
8
States reached
$337M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KEREN AMERICA INC: $50k → 7%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER INC: $17k → 11%AHAVAS TZEDOKOS CORP: $1.1M → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER INC: $12k → 20%AHAVAS TZEDOKOS CORP: $269k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GATESHEAD TALMUDICAL: $13k → 14%TAATZUMOT EMPOWERMENT CENTER INC: $60k → 11%GEMACH OF JACKSON INC: $37k → 11%AHAVAS TZEDAKA INC: $23k → 11%BIKUR CHOLIM OF LAKEWOOD INC: $17k → 11%RELIEF RESOURCES INC: $16k → 20%AHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY INC: $100k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YISA BRACHA INC: $15k → 11%A TORAH INFERTILITY MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: $8k → 20%YAD CHAYA INC: $13k → 11%BONEI OLAM INC: $11k → 20%TELSHE YESHIVA-CHICAGO RABBINICAL COLLEGE: $6k → 20%TECHNOLOGY AWARENESS GROUP: $11k → 11%CHASDEI SHIMON INC: $6k → 11%SIMCHAS KALLAH INC: $5k → 11%SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $5k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.9M · 80 repeat orgs$6.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
38

Total granted

$7.9M
$845k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+70%

Still filing today

23%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
EducationReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalHealthOther
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

  • AT
    AHAVAS TZEDOKOS CORP
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1.4M · revenue +19%
  • TT
    TOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP
    2× · 2017–2018 · $925k · revenue +474%
  • AY
    ANIYEI YERUSHALAYIM INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $116k · revenue +688%

Funded once

  • AT
    AHAVAS TOMCHEI TZEDAKA VCHESAD
    one grant, 2017 · $267k
  • TO
    TORAH ORE SEMINARYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $72k · revenue +74%
  • TJ
    THE JAVNE FUND co ODONOGHUE & LAMB CPAS PLLC
    one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue -71%
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
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.

Education
2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
4
Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc

Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students

Education
5
Yeshiva Keren Hatorah of Passaic- Clifton

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.

Education
6
Kollel Nefesh Hachaim Inc
Education
7
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
8
Birchas Yaakov Kollel Inc

Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith

—
9
Yeshivat Yagdil Torah Inc

Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.

Education
10
Toras Chaim Development Company Inc

Provide a building for a religious school.

Education
11
Yeshiva Bais Mordechai of Teaneck

To provide religious Jewish education.

Education
12
Yeshivat Or Hachaim of Lakewood Inc

Parochial elementary school with a focus on sephardic tradition.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva Ruach Chaim Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

130 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. 130 of the 426 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
61
Early backer (in before they grew)
122/130
Grantees still filing
102/130
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION AHAVAS CHESED & TORAH: $762,422 · OtherCONGREGATION AHAVAS CHESED & TORAHCONGREGATION CHEVRA SHAS INC: $418,932 · OtherCONGREGATION ZICHRON YISROEL INC: $275,770 · OtherCONGREGATION ZICHRONE BINYAMIN: $274,600 · Other+143 more: $6,468,880 · Other+143 moreAHAVAS TZEDOKOS CORP: $1,381,014 · Human ServicesAHAVAS TZEDOKOS…AHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesAHAVAT YISROEL …TAATZUMOT EMPOWERMENT CENTER INC: $60,000 · Human Services+8 more: $200,188 · Human Services+8 moreTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $925,018 · ReligionTOMCHEI TZE…ANIYEI YERUSHALAYIM INC: $116,374 · ReligionANIYEI YERU…CHAYIM V CHESED: $53,401 · ReligionBAIS MEDRASH L'TORAH A NJ NONPROFIT CORP: $48,570 · Religion+6 more: $127,715 · Religion+6 moreLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC: $77,518 · EducationTORAH ORE SEMINARY: $72,000 · EducationSHEMIRAS SEDORIM INC: $70,087 · EducationBETH MEDRASH GOVOHA OF LAKEWOOD INC: $59,863 · EducationCONGREGATION BNOS YAAKOV INC: $40,492 · EducationCHEDER TORAS ZEV: $39,289 · EducationYESHIVAS OHR HATORAH INC: $38,929 · EducationBMG STUDENT AID FUND: $37,438 · EducationTORAH EDUCATION OF AMERICA INC: $34,164 · EducationBNOS BRACHA INC: $29,246 · EducationBNOS MELECH OF LAKEWOOD INC: $27,195 · EducationBAIS SHAINDEL: $26,096 · EducationTIFERES BAIS YAAKOV INC: $25,642 · Education+9 more: $159,804 · EducationJEWISH CHARITY REVIEW INC: $125,336 · PhilanthropyROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC: $40,528 · PhilanthropyBAIS RABAINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyOHR NOSSON INC: $20,397 · PhilanthropyYESHIVAS D'VAR TORAH INC: $18,926 · PhilanthropyKEREN KIRYAT SEFER INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyCHASDEI DAVID INC: $14,000 · PhilanthropyANENI WE ANSWER INC: $50,000 · HealthCHESED OF LAKEWOOD INC: $38,852 · HealthTHE JAVNE FUND co ODONOGHUE & LAMB CPAS PLLC: $60,000 · Employment
Other$8,200,604Human Services$1,741,202Religion$1,271,078Education$737,763Philanthropy$259,187Health$88,852Employment$60,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $925,018 over 2y, 22% of budgetJEWISH CHARITY REVIEW INC: $125,336 over 1y, 27% of budgetANIYEI YERUSHALAYIM INC: $116,374 over 2y, 13% of budgetAHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC: $77,518 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTORAH ORE SEMINARY: $72,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSHEMIRAS SEDORIM INC: $70,087 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE JAVNE FUND co ODONOGHUE & LAMB CPAS PLLC: $60,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetTAATZUMOT EMPOWERMENT CENTER INC: $60,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetBETH MEDRASH GOVOHA OF LAKEWOOD INC: $59,863 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCHAYIM V CHESED: $53,401 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKEREN AMERICA: $50,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetANENI WE ANSWER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetBAIS MEDRASH L'TORAH A NJ NONPROFIT CORP: $48,570 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLEV BEREL INC: $41,841 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC: $40,528 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCONGREGATION BNOS YAAKOV INC: $40,492 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTOMCHEI SHABBOS D'LAKEWOOD INC: $39,365 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHEDER TORAS ZEV: $39,289 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYESHIVAS OHR HATORAH INC: $38,929 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCHESED OF LAKEWOOD INC: $38,852 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetBMG STUDENT AID FUND: $37,438 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetGEMACH OF JACKSON INC: $37,273 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTORAH EDUCATION OF AMERICA INC: $34,164 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetYESHIVA TIFERES BORUCH: $32,546 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBNOS BRACHA INC: $29,246 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $28,926 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBNOS MELECH OF LAKEWOOD INC: $27,195 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBAIS SHAINDEL: $26,096 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTIFERES BAIS YAAKOV INC: $25,642 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBAIS RABAINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetYESHIVA TIFERES TORAH INC: $23,441 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBNOS ESTHER MALKA INC: $22,949 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAHAVAS TZEDAKA INC: $22,871 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMESIVTA NEZER HATORAH: $21,915 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetYESHIVA GEDOLAH KEREN HATORAH INC: $21,241 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOHR NOSSON INC: $20,397 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetYESHIVAS D'VAR TORAH INC: $18,926 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTASHBAR OF LAKEWOOD INC: $18,896 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTORAS CHESED INC: $18,523 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYESHIVA GEDOLAH OF WOODLAKE VILLAGE: $18,484 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBETH HATALMUD RABBINICAL INSTITUTE: $18,408 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAVNEI KODESH INC: $18,114 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TOMER DEVORAH SEMINA RY INC: $18,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF DARCHEI ROCHEL INC: $18,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSCSC INC: $17,376 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPEYLIM LEV LACHIM: $17,376 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM OF LAKEWOOD INC: $17,308 over 1y, 0.8% 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 AHAVAS TZEDOKOS CORP ↗
  • Who funds TOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH CHARITY REVIEW INC ↗
  • Who funds ANIYEI YERUSHALAYIM INC ↗
  • Who funds AHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds TORAH ORE SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds SHEMIRAS SEDORIM 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.

Jack Adjmi Family Fou…The Ojc FundZichron Btz Tzedakah …National Society for …Toras Chesed IncThe Sorala FoundationJacob and Malka Fisch…Jewish Community Foun…The Zev and Susan Mun…Regina Goldwasser Fou…Yes Ben Dovid Foundat…The Jmg Foundation
Jack Adjmi Family Foundation IncNY132.7× affinity130 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Donors Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Donors Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 290%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
29get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 The Donors Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Donors Fund 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 426 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $547M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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