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The Tijori 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
63% of The Tijori Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Tijori Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 42 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k5 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $738k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $937k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE | $400,000 |
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $125,000 |
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $100,000 |
| SOUTH NASSAU COMMUNITIES HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE | $100,000 |
| COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE | $100,000 |
| DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC | $87,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAEL | $60,000 |
| ANIYEI YERUSHALAYIM INC | $60,000 |
| BAIS HOROAH OF FLATBUSH | $55,000 |
| COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE | $50,000 |
| KEREN HASHVIIS INC | $50,000 |
| CONGREGATION AISH KODESH | $50,000 |
| CONGREGATION KOLLEL LOMDEI SHAS INC | $45,000 |
| KUPATH EZRAH OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC | $40,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $207k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 69% of The Tijori Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
37 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2021, 8 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC3× · 2019–2021 · $900k · revenue +34%- BFBEST FOOT FORWARD FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $160k · revenue +156%
- DMDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC2× · 2021–2022 · $122k · revenue +50%
Funded once
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +40%- CGCONGREGATION GUR ARYEH INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $20k
- BMBAIS MEDRASH OF WOODMEREone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
Furtherance of jewish education
Provide financial assistance to needy individuals, and to religious, educational, and charitable organizations in us and abroad.
To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agudath Israel of America and the most unlike its peers is Sephardic Heritage Foundation Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 83 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FOOT FORWARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds ANIYEI YERUSHALAYIM INC ↗
- Who funds KUPATH EZRAH OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WORKATIT INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM JUNIOR TENNIS AND EDUCATION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ↗
- Who funds KEREN HASHVIIS INC ↗
- Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY ↗
- Who funds PITCCH IN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEREN EZER LNEFESH ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds ADOPT A SHADCHAN CORP ↗
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 · Jewish Communal Fund · Cross River Community Foundation · Fjc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Ip Foundation · Terumah Foundation Inc · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Mzl 40 Foundation
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 Tijori 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.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.