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The Tijori Foundation at a glance

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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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2021
53
Grants FY2021
11
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

1
’17
1
’18
7
’19
18
’20
42
’21
41
’22
8
’23
6
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$12MInternational$5.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.6MReligion$1.5MHealth$522kYouth Development$341kRecreation & Sports$203kHuman Services$158kOther$0
02FY2021 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k5 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $738k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $937k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$20,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ANIYEI YERUSHALAYIM INC$60,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAEL$60,000
BAIS HOROAH OF FLATBUSH$55,000
CONGREGATION AISH KODESH$50,000
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE$50,000
KEREN HASHVIIS INC$50,000
CONGREGATION KOLLEL LOMDEI SHAS INC$45,000
KUPATH EZRAH OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC$40,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OUR PLACE IN NEW YORK INC: $6k → 20%BONEI OLAM INC: $18k → 20%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $87k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $35k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER INC: $31k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER INC: $30k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
NY
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
MO
VA
TN
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 69% of The Tijori Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Tijori Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.1M · 37 repeat orgs$654k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
11

Total granted

$9.1M
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+77%

Still filing today

51%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $900k · revenue +34%
  • BF
    BEST FOOT FORWARD FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $160k · revenue +156%
  • DM
    DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $122k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • Feeding Americagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +40%
  • CG
    CONGREGATION GUR ARYEH INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • BM
    BAIS MEDRASH OF WOODMERE
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Sherit Isroel
—
3
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
4
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
5
Tzemach Yifroch Foundation
—
6
Yad Yosef Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
8
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
9
Tal Hashamayim Foundation
Religion
10
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
11
Chasdei Yetev Lev Inc

Provide financial assistance to needy individuals, and to religious, educational, and charitable organizations in us and abroad.

—
12
American Friends of Shviti Hashem Inc

To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agudath Israel of America; 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.
05the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 83 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
34/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE I: $5,850,000 · OtherCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVER…+58 more: $2,279,000 · Other+58 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $6,225,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE …VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $5,858,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT …+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $900,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel: $38,000 · International+1 more: $18,000 · InternationalST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $120,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $80,000 · HealthKEREN EZER LNEFESH: $39,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HALA: $25,000 · Health+2 more: $10,000 · HealthANIYEI YERUSHALAYIM INC: $85,000 · ReligionKEREN HASHVIIS INC: $52,500 · ReligionADOPT A SHADCHAN CORP: $30,000 · ReligionPARTNERS IN TORAH: $25,000 · ReligionTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $20,000 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OSEH CHAYIL: $10,000 · ReligionYESHIVAS TORAS YESHARIM: $10,000 · Religion+1 more: $6,000 · ReligionDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $122,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $61,000 · Human ServicesBonei Olam Inc: $18,000 · Human Services+1 more: $6,000 · Human Services
Other$8,129,000Community Improvement$6,225,000Philanthropy$5,868,000International$956,000Health$274,000Religion$238,500Human Services$207,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $6,225,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $5,858,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $900,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBEST FOOT FORWARD FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $122,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $115,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetANIYEI YERUSHALAYIM INC: $85,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetKUPATH EZRAH OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC: $85,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORKATIT INC: $71,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetHARLEM JUNIOR TENNIS AND EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $65,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $61,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKEREN HASHVIIS INC: $52,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPITCCH IN FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetKEREN EZER LNEFESH: $39,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $38,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADOPT A SHADCHAN CORP: $30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HALA: $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetPARTNERS IN TORAH: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BIKUR CHOLIM EZRAT ACHIM: $18,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYAD YISROEL: $18,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OSEH CHAYIL: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAVNEI KODESH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetYESHIVAS TORAS YESHARIM: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR PLACE IN NY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJFT - JEWISH FUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMADRAIGOS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEPHARDIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLegacy Youth Tennis And Education Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • 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 ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HALA ↗

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 FundJewish Communal FundCross River Community…FjcJack Adjmi Family Fou…Jewish Community Foun…Associated Jewish Cha…Ip FoundationTerumah Foundation IncNational Society for …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Mzl 40 Foundation
The Ojc FundNY51.4× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Tijori Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tijori Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 83 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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