· Private foundation
The Light of Chaim 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k49 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $87k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MACHNE BNOS AQUARE | $86,572 |
| CONG SDEI YAKOV INC | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,640 |
| SHEKEL HAKODESH | $11,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BNOS YAAKOV | $9,000 |
| MIKVAH YISROEL | $5,800 |
| YESHIVAS TORAS ZEV INC | $3,980 |
| CONG OF KIRYAS SKVER | $3,336 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,150 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,870 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,665 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,415 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,255 |
| CONG TIFERES BAIS ZWEHIL | $2,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $223) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 84% 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.
8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · $42k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · $26k
- BYBNOS YAAKOV2× · 2023–2024 · $15k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $18k
- VVariousone grant, 2023 · $13k
- OCOrchos Chaimone grant, 2023 · $4k
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.
We promote and spread the religious teachings and philosophies of the holy Baal Shem Tov from Poland, who is regarded as the founder of Hasidic Judaism We provide financial assistance to Bais Vaad Lechachomim, a not for profit organization…
Provide financial assistance to needy individuals, and to religious, educational, and charitable organizations in us and abroad.
encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.
Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
Religious Teaching
Tzidkas Binyamin is organized for charitable, religious and educational purposes, to assist Jewish orthodox institutions and needy individuals in need of financial aid.
Provides finacial assistance to needy individuals and to religious, charitable organizations
Provide financial assistance to torah and talmudic scholars, as well as to other needy individuals and other organizations that work to promote these purposes.
To provide financial assistance to religious and charitable organizations worldwide to help them continue their activities.
To award financial grants to religios orthodox jewish organizations and to help by financial means, the needy, sick and disabled people.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 60 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 · The Gds Foundation · Ani Mamin Foundation · Lodz Charitable Trust · Mkz Charity Foundation Inc · The Foundation for Hope · The Lexicon Foundation Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Rachels Foundation · Mezritch Foundation · Mtw Services Inc · The Pillars Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Light of Chaim Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Light of Chaim Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bnos Melech of Lakewood Inc: 21% of income from government
How this is measured
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