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.

The Menche Foundation

The Menche Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$251kInternational$219kPhilanthropy$155kFood & Nutrition$64kEducation$51kHuman Services$22kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kCrime & Legal$10kOther$0

02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k17 grants · $29k
$10k–50k5 grants · $81k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$216k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
P E F ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC	$25,450
TZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION	$18,000
JGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC	$17,525
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC	$10,360
JAFFA INSTITUTE	$10,000
BUKHARIAN JEWISH CONGREGATION OF HILLCREST	$5,000
TORAH AND NATURE FOUNDATION	$5,000
EZRAT ISRAEL INC	$2,500
CONGREGATION ZICHRON RABBEINU MOSHE FEINSTEIN	$2,500
CONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL	$2,000
RAMAZ SCHOOL	$2,000
FRIENDS OF EMEK LONE SOLDIER INC	$1,800
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	$1,800
CONGREGATION KEHILATH JESHURUN	$1,443
JEWISH RECORDS INDEXING-POLAND	$1,250

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $685) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of The Menche Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Menche Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 7.1% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$445k · 23 repeat orgs$232k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$445k

$223k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

-6%

Still filing today

61%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

ReligionEducationInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & 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

AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC
5× · 2020–2025 · $64k · revenue +101%
TI
TZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION
3× · 2023–2025 · $51k · revenue +296%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM INC
4× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +2%

Funded once

DO
DETAILS OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
one grant, 2021 · $117k
MD
MAGEN DAVID SYNAGOGUE
one grant, 2022 · $18k
CZ
CONGREGATION ZICHRON RABBENINU MOSHE
one grant, 2020 · $17k

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.

Sherit Isroel

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Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

University of Judaism Foundation

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American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion

American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah

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Tal Hashamayim Foundation

Religion

The Foundation for the Preservation of the History of the Jewish People in

Arts & Culture

Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation

Philanthropy

Idf Memorial Foundation

Philanthropy

Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion

American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 68 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/34

Grantees still filing

17/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$346,409Philanthropy$228,950Religion$82,719International$81,200Education$46,635Human Services$13,185Crime & Legal$10,000

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY35.4× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Menche Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Menche Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home