· Private foundation
The Harold & Blanche Schechter Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Yeshiva Ketana of Passaic | $21,800 |
| Lev Teen Center | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BIKUR CHOLIM EZRAT ACHIM | $15,000 |
| ONE ISRAEL FUND | $15,000 |
| BAIS MEDRASH OF HARBORVIEW | $10,000 |
| Teen Lev Center | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BIKUR CHOLIM EZRAT ACHIM | $10,000 |
| Gateways | $8,350 |
| POSEACH | $7,500 |
| Kahal Anshei Emes D'Cedarhurst | $7,000 |
| ONE ISRAEL FUND | $5,000 |
| BAIS MEDRASH OF HARBORVIEW | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BIKUR CHOLIM EZRAT ACHIM | $5,000 |
| YESHIVA KETANA OF WATERBURY | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BIKUR CHOLIM EZRAT ACHIM | $5,000 |
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFRIENDS OF BIKUR CHOLIM EZRAT ACHIM3× · 2022–2025 · $110k · revenue +10%
- YKYESHIVA KTANA OF PASSAIC3× · 2022–2025 · $64k · revenue +14%
- OIONE ISRAEL FUND LTD3× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +234%
Funded once
- MYMESIVTA YESHIVA RABBI CHAIM BERLINone grant, 2023 · $15k
- IUI. U Fundone grant, 2022 · $9k
- FOFriends of Bonei Olamone grant, 2022 · $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.
Education and religious activities and research
Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide funds to needy individuals in the state of israel.
Jewish Observance of Shabbos, Chagim, Torah Learning
To provide support to jewish religious education in israel and around the world, and provide financial assistance to and on behalf of yeshivah beth israel tifereth menachem.
Assistance to the indigent
Charitable work to help people in need
Provides finacial assistance to needy individuals and to religious, charitable organizations
The organization's primary mission is charitable and religious in nature, supporting judaic and rabbinical education by providing financial assistance to institutions of jewish learning, currently through grants to shaare mordechai in…
to assist and guide couples through the challenging times of infertility so that they follow what Judaism and Torah says. To help verify Jewish identity among Jews looking to get married.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 53 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · The Ganger Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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