· Private foundation
The Sorala 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k206 grants · $259k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $173k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chaviva Foundation | $100,000 |
| The Donors Fund | $72,572 |
| Individual grant recipient | $31,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,160 |
| Congregation Gates of Mercy | $13,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,750 |
| Khal Machzikei Torah | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,810 |
| Yeshiva Nesiv HaTalmud | $7,600 |
| Congregation Chaim V'Chessed | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Yeshiva Gedola Tiferes Yaakov Yitzchok | $5,100 |
| Torah Links | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
257 repeat relationships: 123 still active in FY2025, 134 since wound down; 86 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AIACHIM INC5× · 2021–2025 · $28k · revenue +23%
- TFTZUR FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2025 · $27k · revenue +28%
- RRRELIEF RESOURCES INC3× · 2021–2025 · $22k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- KZKEREN ZICHRON MENACHEMone grant, 2021 · $12k
- AYAGUDAS YISROEL OF WEST LAWRENCEone grant, 2024 · $11k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $11k
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.
Religious Teaching
Religious School
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
To conduct and maintain a religious school in accordance with the tenets, traditions and precepts of the orthodox jewish faith.
publish religious books
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.
To operate a high school offering religious instruction and general studies as well as a post high school program of talmudic studies. the school shall be run under the standards of orthodox jewish law and tradition.
How this is measured
144 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. 144 of the 739 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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: Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Donors Fund Inc · The Ojc Fund · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Jmg Foundation · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · The Fishoff Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Keren Yud Mem Inc · Toras Chesed Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sorala Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sorala Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mesoras Hatorah Inc: 11% of income from government
- Yeshiva Chayei Olam: 10% of income from government
- Yeshiva Nachlei Torah Inc: 9% of income from government
- Yeshiva Toras Aron Inc: 8% of income from government
- Bais Tova Inc: 7% of income from government
- Yeshiva Nesivos Hatorah Inc: 3% of income from government
- Yeshiva Tiferes Torah Inc: 3% of income from government
- Jewels School Inc: 2% of income from government
- Chai 4EVER Inc: 2% of income from government
- Mesorah Heritage Foundation: 1% of income from government
- Oorah Inc: 0% of income from government
- Yehudi Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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