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The Kohelet Foundation (Dba Tzemach David Foundation)

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.

$189k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$6,863
Largest grant, FY2024
$24,491
Organizations funded a year
3 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$135k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations The Kohelet Foundation (Dba Tzemach David Foundation) funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’23
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving21$189k90%
FY20233$38k100%
FY20198$1.1M25%
FY20189$658k33%
FY201715$2.4Mn/a
82% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.8MReligion$349kHuman Services$58kArts & Culture$27kPhilanthropy$10kInternational$5kCivil Rights$4kHealth$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Kohelet Foundation (Dba Tzemach David Foundation) supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKohelet Yeshiva High School Inc: $1,367,892 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetLamplighters Yeshivah: $272,585 over 3y, 10% of budgetAbrams Hebrew Academy: $169,581 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPolitz Day School of Cherry Hill a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation: $168,659 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetPhiladelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAyeka Ltd: $20,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetNefesh B'Nefesh Jewish Souls United Inc: $17,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMenachem Education Foundation Inc: $13,699 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Friends of Nishmat Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTamim Academies: $4,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetBoard of Jewish Education Inc: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Jewish Culture & Creativity: $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHyman Brand Hebrew Academy: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY19.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About The Kohelet Foundation (Dba Tzemach David Foundation)

How much does The Kohelet Foundation (Dba Tzemach David Foundation) give?
The Kohelet Foundation (Dba Tzemach David Foundation) reported 21 grants totaling $188,951 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Kohelet Foundation (Dba Tzemach David Foundation) fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (87%), Religion (8%), Human Services (1%).
Who are The Kohelet Foundation (Dba Tzemach David Foundation)'s largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kohelet Yeshiva High School Inc ($1.4M), Lamplighters Yeshivah ($273k), Abrams Hebrew Academy ($170k).
Does The Kohelet Foundation (Dba Tzemach David Foundation) fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Kohelet Foundation (Dba Tzemach David Foundation) accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Kohelet Foundation (Dba Tzemach David Foundation)?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.
Where is The Kohelet Foundation (Dba Tzemach David Foundation) based?
The Kohelet Foundation (Dba Tzemach David Foundation) is based in PA.

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 43 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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