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The Sda Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 8
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$29M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Sda Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesReligionHealthOther
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
FY2025still arriving1$5k0%
FY20243$7k33%
FY20238$86k75%
FY20223$3k100%
FY20214$118k75%
FY20207$34k86%
FY20193$218kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$366kEducation$103kPhilanthropy$1kHuman Services$1kHealth$100

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Yeshiva University High Schools$100,00011%
Ohr Shalom Vechesed Ezra Lshabbos$20,0002n/a
Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan$10,0001n/a
Cong Noam Elimelech Inc$10,0002n/a
Noam Elimelech$6,0002n/a
Yeshiva Zichron Meilech Inc$5,3001n/a
Bais Yisroel$5,0001n/a
Cong Chased Lakol$1,8001n/a
Naaleh High School for Girls a Nj Nonprofit Corporation$1,80010%
Lamdeinu Inc$1,36021%
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All grantees of The Sda Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Yeshiva University High Schools$100,00011%
Ohr Shalom Vechesed Ezra Lshabbos$20,0002n/a
Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan$10,0001n/a
Cong Noam Elimelech Inc$10,0002n/a
Noam Elimelech$6,0002n/a
Yeshiva Zichron Meilech Inc$5,3001n/a
Bais Yisroel$5,0001n/a
Cong Chased Lakol$1,8001n/a
Naaleh High School for Girls a Nj Nonprofit Corporation$1,80010%
Lamdeinu Inc$1,36021%
Yeshiva University$1,25010%
We Love to Help$1,00010%
Chesed Vemes$5001n/a
Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam$50010%
Bnei Torah Movement$5001n/a
Yeshiva Meor Hatorah Inc$4001n/a
Mosdot Botoshan Inc$3001n/a
B'Nai Torah Foundation Inc$10010%
March of Dimes Inc$10010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($306k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sda Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYeshiva University High Schools: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNaaleh High School for Girls a Nj Nonprofit Corporation: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLamdeinu Inc: $1,360 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYeshiva University: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWe Love to Help: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBais Yaakov Ateres Miriam: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetB'Nai Torah Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $100 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 8.

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.

The Ojc FundNY24.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Alyad Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · The Fishoff Family Foundation · The Jmg Foundation · Donors Fund Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Sda Foundation

How much does The Sda Foundation give?
The Sda Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $5,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The Sda Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (78%), Education (22%), Philanthropy (0%).
Who are The Sda Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Yeshiva University High Schools ($100k), Ohr Shalom Vechesed Ezra Lshabbos ($20k), Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan ($10k).
Does The Sda Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Sda Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Sda Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Alyad Foundation Inc, Jewish Communal Fund.
Where is The Sda Foundation based?
The Sda Foundation is based in NY.

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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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