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The Ohr Hakotel Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k30 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $392k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Rabinowitz Institute Inc | $591,315 |
| Jewish Communal Fund | $521,000 |
| National Society for Hebrew Day Schools | $200,000 |
| Cong Chasdei Lev | $150,000 |
| Central Fund of Israel | $102,000 |
| Tomche Shabbos of Rockland County | $100,000 |
| Tomchei Shabbos Lakewood Inc | $100,000 |
| Yad Avraham of New York Inc | $80,000 |
| New Springville Jewish Center Cong | $77,000 |
| American Friends of ALYN Hospital | $65,000 |
| Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan | $60,000 |
| Chasdei Yisroel Inc | $50,000 |
| Knesseth Bais Yaakov | $50,000 |
| West Side Kollel Torah Center | $50,000 |
| Congregation & Yeshiva Ohel Yaakov | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $226k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WSWEST SIDE KOLLEL TORAH CENTER2× · 2019–2020 · $128k · revenue +191% · 63% of their budget
- TSTOMCHE SHABBOS OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC2× · 2019–2020 · $122k · revenue +127%
- CYCHASDEI YISROEL INC2× · 2019–2020 · $115k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- MBMESILAS BAIS YAAKOVone grant, 2019 · $100k
- FOFRIENDS OF YAD NAFTALIone grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue -2%
- AOAF of Yad Eliezer Incone grant, 2019 · $28k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Religious School
Religious Teaching
Support of religious schools in Israel
To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.
Charity and education in u.s. and israel
Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.
None
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chasdei Yisroel Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 167 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE RABINOWITZ INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HEBREW DAY SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE KOLLEL TORAH CENTER ↗
- Who funds TOMCHE SHABBOS OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHASDEI YISROEL INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds TOMCHEI SHABBOS D'LAKEWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RCT INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD NAFTALI ↗
- Who funds MESORAH INC ↗
- Who funds CHAI 4EVER INC ↗
- Who funds KEREN ZICHRON MOSHE TRUST ↗
- Who funds KIMPATORIN AID INC ↗
- Who funds BL GIRLS TOWN JERUSALEM INC ↗
- Who funds RELIEF RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TZOHAR ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MESHI INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Jmg Foundation · The Weiskopf Family Foundation · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Donors Fund Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Adjmi-Dwek Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Ohr Hakotel Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cheder Toras Zev — 22% of income from government
- Chai 4EVER Inc — 2% of income from government
- Yeshiva Gedolah Keren Hatorah Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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