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The Ezra Charitable Trust at a glance

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The Ezra 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.

$244k
Granted FY2024still arriving
155
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0180% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$1.7MPhilanthropy$136kHuman Services$134kEducation$122kHealth$53kInternational$53kFood & Nutrition$18kArts & Culture$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 155 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k152 grants · $151k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$360
Median grant
15
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION AHAVAS TZDOKAH VCHESED INC$70,000
LAKEWOOD CHEDER$13,000
YAD ELIEZER$10,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
YOUNG ISRAEL OF HOUSTON$5,270
CONGREGATION TASHBAR TORAS CHAIM INC$5,200
TAHARATH HAMISHPACHA SOCIETY$5,000
CONGREGATION MERCAZ HATORAH OF BELLE HARBOR$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
TZIDKAS MORDECHAI$5,000
VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS - UNDER 5000$4,873
ZICHRON SHLOMO YONASON FUND INC$4,550
CHASDEI AVOS$4,100
THE HOUSTON MESIVTA$3,893
RAY OF HOPE INSTITUTE INC$3,880
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 (FY19–24, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER INC: $180 → 11%ISRAEL SELECT CHARITY FUND: $10k → 13%KOLEL NER MALKA: $3k → 14%ISRAEL SELECT CHARITY FUND: $500 → 13%YAD CHAYA: $180 → 13%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $50k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $16k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $4k → 6%ACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 6%KEREN HATZEDAKAH: $1k → 11%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $1k → 6%ACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $500 → 6%KEREN HATZEDAKAH: $360 → 11%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $360 → 6%CHAI4EVER: $250 → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAS MOSHE: $5k → 20%BOBBIE'S PLACE: $360 → 20%MY EXTENDED FAMILY: $613 → 20%MY EXTENDED FAMILY: $500 → 20%A TIME: $1k → 20%A TIME: $1k → 20%A TIME: $640 → 20%A TORAH INFERTILITY MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: $500 → 20%BONEI OLAM: $1k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $460 → 20%YAD SHIFRA: $360 → 20%BONEI OLAM: $250 → 20%BONEI OLAM: $180 → 20%MENUCHA CHESED SERVICES: $36 → 20%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

WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
AZ
NC
GA
TX
FL
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 101 repeat orgs$474k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

101 repeat relationships: 63 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 91 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101
160

Total granted

$2.0M
$400k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+14%

Still filing today

34%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ADERES HATORAH INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $200k · revenue +17%
  • LC
    LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $86k · revenue +54%
  • MH
    MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $72k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
  • VO
    VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS - UNDER 3000
    one grant, 2019 · $35k
  • O
    OHEL
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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 Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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3
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
4
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

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

Education
5
Kollel Nefesh Hachaim Inc
Education
6
Ohr Yisrael Yeshiva Inc

Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.

Religion
7
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
8
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
10
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
11
Sherit Isroel
—
12
American Friends of Shviti Hashem Inc

To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chasdei Yisroel Inc; the most unlike its peers is Shaar Education (Formerly United in Purpose Education). 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

112 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. 112 of the 352 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/112
Grantees still filing
64/112
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION AHAVAS TZDOKAH VCHESED INC: $674,500 · OtherCONGREGATION AHAVAS TZDOKAH VCHESED INCVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS - UNDER 5000: $105,048 · OtherVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS - UNDER 5000+153 more: $867,443 · Other+153 moreFRIENDS OF ADERES HATORAH INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS O…+6 more: $14,646 · Philanthropy+6 moreLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC: $86,000 · EducationSEPHARDIC GAN TORAT EMET INC: $52,680 · EducationHouston Mesivta: $13,893 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RCT INC: $6,800 · Education+4 more: $10,320 · EducationMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $72,250 · Arts & CultureMACHON MASEH ROCKEACH INC: $45,400 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $5,400 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTZUR FOUNDATION INC: $46,180 · ReligionOHR NAAVA: $18,000 · ReligionMIKVAH USA INC: $18,000 · ReligionTORAH LIVE INC: $6,000 · ReligionOhr Olam Corp: $4,000 · Religion+8 more: $11,217 · ReligionDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $71,110 · Human ServicesIsrael Select Charity Fund Inc: $10,500 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAT MOSHE: $5,000 · Human ServicesA Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange: $3,477 · Human Services+5 more: $9,943 · Human ServicesCentral Fund of Israel: $38,000 · InternationalCHASDEI AVOS: $28,288 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TORAS MOSHE: $10,000 · International+1 more: $780 · International
Other$1,646,991Philanthropy$214,646Education$169,693Arts & Culture$124,050Religion$103,397Human Services$100,030International$77,068

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF ADERES HATORAH INC: $200,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC: $86,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $72,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $71,110 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSEPHARDIC GAN TORAT EMET INC: $52,680 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTZUR FOUNDATION INC: $46,180 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMACHON MASEH ROCKEACH INC: $45,400 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $38,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHASDEI AVOS: $28,288 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetOHR NAAVA: $18,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMIKVAH USA INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHouston Mesivta: $13,893 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetIsrael Select Charity Fund Inc: $10,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TORAS MOSHE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RCT INC: $6,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN EZER LNEFESH: $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTORAH LIVE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $5,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MERCAZ HATORAH INC: $5,100 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTZIDKAS MORDECHAI INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetOUR PLACE INC: $4,780 over 4y, 16% of budgetROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC: $4,546 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOhr Olam Corp: $4,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRAY OF HOPE INSTITUTE INC: $3,880 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHATZALAH OF HOUSTON: $3,860 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF AHAVATH SHALOM INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange: $3,477 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNER MALKA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetOHR SOMAYACH INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston: $2,381 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $1,970 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTALMUDIC COLLEGE OF FLORIDA INC: $1,840 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMESIFTA OF GREATER MIAMI-LOUIS: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKOLLEL OHR SHMUEL INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKLEINMAN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTALMUDIC RESEARCH CENTER OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMesivta Ahavas Hatorah: $1,720 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $1,530 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEER HAGOLAH INSTITUTES INC: $1,424 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN HATZEDAKA INC: $1,360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMY EXTENDED FAMILY INC: $1,113 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE JERUSALEM KOLLEL INC: $1,080 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAM YISRAEL CHAI INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF GATESHEAD TALMUDICAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $860 over 2y, 0.0% 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 FRIENDS OF ADERES HATORAH INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SEPHARDIC GAN TORAT EMET INC ↗
  • Who funds TZUR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MACHON MASEH ROCKEACH INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds CHASDEI AVOS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF AMIT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds OHR NAAVA ↗
  • Who funds MIKVAH USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Houston Mesivta ↗
  • Who funds Israel Select Charity Fund 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.

The Ojc FundBirnbaum Family Found…National Society for …The Jmg FoundationZichron Yechiel Meche…The Sorala FoundationJewish Communal FundEisenberg Family Foun…Alyad Foundation IncAssociated Jewish Cha…The Zev and Susan Mun…The Fishoff Family Fo…
The Ojc FundNY74.1× affinity98 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Birnbaum Family Foundation · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · The Jmg Foundation · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · The Sorala Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Eisenberg Family Foundation Inc · Alyad Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation · The Fishoff Family 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 Ezra Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ezra Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Yeshiva Toras Aron Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Chai 4EVER Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Mesorah Heritage Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum: 0% of income from government
  • Yehudi Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
10report 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 Ezra Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Ezra Charitable Trust 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 352 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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