· Private foundation
The Shamayim 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YESHIVA OHAVEI TORAH OF RIVERDALE | $210,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $21,100 |
| METZAD CONGREGATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| MANHATTAN HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | $10,000 |
| GAN ALIYA | $10,000 |
| AGUDATH ISRAEL OF GREENSPRING | $7,132 |
| TORAH ACADEMY FOR GIRLS | $5,000 |
| MIAMI BEACH COMMUNITY KOLLEL | $5,000 |
| FUND FOR ISRAELS TOMORROW | $5,000 |
| GAN YISROEL | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS BIRCAS | $3,800 |
| LISHMOAH LILMOD ULELAMED | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF IDF WIDOWS | $3,000 |
| VAAD HARABBANIM | $2,800 |
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 (FY17–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of The Shamayim Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 16 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YOYESHIVA OHAVEI TORAH OF RIVERDALE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $441k · revenue +24%
- JCJewish Content Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $22k · revenue +385%
- TRTIFERETH RAPHAEL INC3× · 2018–2022 · $6k · revenue +309%
Funded once
- TSTOMCHEI SHABBOSone grant, 2023 · $25k
- CACONGREGATION ADATH ISRAELone grant, 2019 · $16k
- BMBAIS MEDRASH OF CLIFTON INCone grant, 2023 · $7k
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.
The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.
Religious School
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 117 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 · Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · The Chestnut Foundation · Terumah Foundation Inc · Maalot · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Jmg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Kitov Foundation · The Basch Family Foundation · Caroline & Joseph S Gruss Life Monument Funds Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Shamayim Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shamayim Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Tifereth Raphael Inc: 17% of income from government
- Mesivta Nezer Hatorah: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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