· Private foundation
The Etz Chaim Charitable Trust
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
69% of The Etz Chaim Charitable Trust’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Donors Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year The Etz Chaim Charitable Trust named its own grantees at scale: 41 organizations, $2M. 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k57 grants · $149k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $375k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $670k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE DONOR'S FUND | $400,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $184,500 |
| CHASDEI UVOIS | $105,000 |
| BETH MEDRASH CHASIDIM | $100,000 |
| CONGREGATION TZLOSA DSHLOMO | $75,000 |
| CONG TARSHISH | $55,000 |
| CONGREGATION YESHIVA YAD MOISHE | $50,000 |
| YESHIVA SHAAREI MENACHEM INC | $50,000 |
| KOLLEL ZICHRON CHAIM OF BOBOV | $50,000 |
| YESHIVA GEDOLAH IMREI YOSEF | $40,000 |
| BOBOVER YESHIVA BNEI ZION | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC | $37,500 |
| TSHECHENOV INSTITUTIONS IN ISRAEL | $36,000 |
| CONG CHOCHMAS SHLOMO | $26,800 |
| BNEI AVROHOM | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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 +96% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
76 repeat relationships: 64 still active in FY2019, 12 since wound down; 20 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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +34%
- YYYAD YISROEL3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +15%
- TVTOV VCHESED FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +227%
Funded once
- BRBAIS RIVKA ROCHEL INCone grant, 2018 · $10k
- KBKHAL BNEI TORAHone grant, 2017 · $5k
- YSYESHIVATH SHAAR HATORAH GRODNOone grant, 2017 · $5k
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 Teaching
To make grants to religious and charitable organizations
The furtherance of primacy of orthodox jewish jurisprudence
Provide support to further jewish education
Support of religious schools in Israel
Assistance to the indigent
Furtherance of jewish education
Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.
Organization raises funds which are disbursed to religious schools of higher education and talmudic research
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 124 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.
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: The Ojc Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · S&W Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Chavie Stern Family Foundation Inc · Donors Fund Inc · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · Chayim V Chesed · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · Kmh Inl Abraham and Sara Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Etz Chaim Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Etz Chaim Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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