New York · Private foundation
The Menche 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.
- $111k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,450
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 31
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $216k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations The Menche Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $85k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $119k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $175k | 65% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $92k | 64% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $117k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $88k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Friends of Leket Israel Inc | $64,100 | 5 | 0% |
| The Institute for the Advancement of Education in Jaffa Inc | $63,900 | 5 | 1% |
| Tzohar Israel Foundation | $51,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Kohelet Yeshiva High School Inc | $40,166 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of Itim Inc | $32,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Congregation Zichron Rabbeinu Moshe Feinstein | $28,300 | 4 | n/a |
| Temple Adath Israel of the Main Line | $19,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Magen David Synagogue | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Torah and Nature Foundation | $15,372 | 3 | 1% |
| Friends of Nahal Haredi | $15,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($211k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Menche Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 · Fjc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Fishoff Family Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Ojc Fund · Erlbaum Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Sassoon Family Foundation · Traditional Fund Inc
How this is measured
About The Menche Foundation
- How much does The Menche Foundation give?
- The Menche Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $110,652 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Menche Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (31%), International (27%), Philanthropy (19%).
- Who are The Menche Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: American Friends of Leket Israel Inc ($64k), The Institute for the Advancement of Education in Jaffa Inc ($64k), Tzohar Israel Foundation ($51k).
- Does The Menche Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Menche 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 Menche Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Fjc, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.
- Where is The Menche Foundation based?
- The Menche Foundation is based in NY.
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