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The Issachar & Miriam Bistritzky Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
68
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$402kHuman Services$23kHealth$12kInternational$7kPhilanthropy$4kRecreation & Sports$3kArts & Culture$2kEnvironment$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k66 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
$360
Median grant
3
States reached
$196k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONG TIFERES INC$12,500
OHEL SHOLMO DOV$10,000
Individual grant recipient$6,600
BEIS HAMEDRASH CHASSIDEI AMSHINOV$5,032
YESHIVA MEOR ENAIM$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,255
FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,400
Individual grant recipient$2,000
CONGREGATION LEV ARYE DSANZ$1,800
Individual grant recipient$1,572
YESHIVATH RADIN$1,500
EZRAS YISROEL$1,223
BINYAN YERUSHALAYIM$1,221
YAD LACHMU ANYU LENITZRUCHIN$1,130
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 (FY20–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEAVLAND: $72 → 17%KOOLKIDS PASSAIC: $180 → 12%TIKVAH LECHAIM INC: $3k → 14%WE LOVE TO HELP INC: $120 → 20%MISASKIM: $1k → 20%MENUCHA CHESED SERVICES: $500 → 20%HOMEBOUND CHESED INC: $500 → 20%BONEI OLAM: $500 → 20%BONEI OLAM: $101 → 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

IL
NY
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
MD
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$208k · 68 repeat orgs$246k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

68 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
180

Total granted

$208k
$223k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
0%

Still filing today

10%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • DI
    DEJ INTERNATIONAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $4k · revenue +33%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLEL SHAAREI SIMCHA
    3× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +71%
  • MU
    MIKVAH USA INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $1k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • DL
    DETAILED LIST OF CHARITALE COTRIBUTIONS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST FROM
    one grant, 2022 · $74k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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2
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
3
Zichron Boruch Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Mishken Chaim Rivnits

Assistance to the indigent

Religion
5
Zichroin Rabbeini Meshilem Feiish Ztl Foundation
—
6
Zichron Moshe Vesther Kohn Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Tzemach Yifroch Foundation
—
8
Keren Torah Vchesed

Keren torah vchesed inc. is the american fundraising arm of irgun hesh hatorah an established israeli religious organization that maintains religious centers for worship and torah study and alleeviates poverty in israel

International
9
Gemilas Chesed Kramer Inc
Philanthropy
10
The Yad Moach Vlev Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Tzidkas Chaim Vleah Foundation Inc
—
12
Zichron Chaim Meir Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tomchei Tzedaka Corp; the most unlike its peers is Camp Extreme D/B/a Project Extreme. 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

37 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. 37 of the 280 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/37
Grantees still filing
18/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DETAILED LIST OF CHARITALE COTRIBUTIONS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST FROM: $74,418 · OtherDETAILED LIST OF CHARITALE COTRIBUTIONS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST FROMIndividual grant recipient: $22,566 · OtherOHEL SHOLMO DOV: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $18,972 · Other+173 more: $295,526 · Other+173 moreTIKVAH LECHAIM INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesMISASKIM CORP: $1,000 · Human ServicesBonei Olam Inc: $601 · Human ServicesMENUCHA CHESED SERVICES CORP: $500 · Human ServicesHOMEBOUND CHESED INC: $500 · Human Services+2 more: $300 · Human ServicesMIKVAH USA INC: $1,360 · ReligionKOLEL TORAH INC: $680 · ReligionMosdos Opele Inc: $500 · ReligionKNESET MORDECHAI: $500 · ReligionTZUR FOUNDATION INC: $360 · ReligionTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $226 · ReligionUNITED STATES JEWISH FEDERATION: $200 · ReligionZICHRON ELIYAHU INC: $180 · ReligionKOLLEL TORAH INC: $180 · ReligionDEJ INTERNATIONAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,850 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLEL SHAAREI SIMCHA: $2,060 · InternationalKUPAS MAOS ERETZ YISROEL MEIR BAAL HANES RIZHIN BOYAN INC: $234 · InternationalMATAT MORDECHAI: $360 · PhilanthropyZICHRON MOSHE ELIHU TZEDOKA FUND: $180 · PhilanthropyMoadim Uzmanim: $180 · PhilanthropyVYAZREIM INC: $360 · Public Benefit
Other$431,482Human Services$5,901Religion$4,186Arts & Culture$3,850International$2,294Philanthropy$720Public Benefit$360

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDEJ INTERNATIONAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,850 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLEL SHAAREI SIMCHA: $2,060 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMIKVAH USA INC: $1,360 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMISASKIM CORP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKOLEL TORAH INC: $680 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $601 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMosdos Opele Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOMEBOUND CHESED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKNESET MORDECHAI: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMATAT MORDECHAI: $360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVYAZREIM INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKUPAS MAOS ERETZ YISROEL MEIR BAAL HANES RIZHIN BOYAN INC: $234 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $226 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKOLLEL TORAH INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKOCHAVIM INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN YEHOSHUA V'YISROEL: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWE LOVE TO HELP: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKeep Climbing Inc: $120 over 1y, 0.1% 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 DEJ INTERNATIONAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TIKVAH LECHAIM 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 FundNY85.8× affinity86 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · Donors Fund Inc · Greenzweig Family Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · The Setton Foundation · The Basch Family Foundation · The Fishoff Family Foundation · The Lexicon Foundation Inc · The Sorala 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 Issachar & Miriam Bistritzky Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Issachar & Miriam Bistritzky Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    8get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 Issachar & Miriam Bistritzky Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Issachar & Miriam Bistritzky Foundation 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 280 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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