How much does The Tlk Foundation give?

The Tlk Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $130,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does The Tlk Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (15%), Philanthropy (13%), Religion (12%).

Who are The Tlk Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: US Friends of Yad Ezrah Inc ($80k), Tov Vachesed Inc ($37k), Friends of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Designs Inc ($28k).

Does The Tlk Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Tlk Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Tlk Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Nash Family Foundation, The Russell Berrie Foundation.

Where is The Tlk Foundation based?

The Tlk Foundation is based in NY.

The Tlk Foundation

The Tlk Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

The Tlk 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.

$131k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$28k

Largest

01What it funds

0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$106kPhilanthropy$91kReligion$83kEducation$69kArts & Culture$49kFood & Nutrition$47kSocial Science$35kHealth$32kOther$0

02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k6 grants · $33k
$10k–50k5 grants · $98k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DESIGN INC	$28,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA	$25,000
THE HESCHEL SCHOOL	$25,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT	$10,000
US FRIENDS OF YAD EZRAH	$10,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY	$7,500
PARDES INSTITUTE	$7,500
PENN HILLEL	$7,500
TOV VACHESED INC	$5,000
THE CHESED FUND - BOOTS FOR ISRAEL	$3,600
LINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE	$1,800

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$219k · 7 repeat orgs$300k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$219k

$217k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%

+34%

Still filing today

43%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthEducationReligionOther

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

UF
US FRIENDS OF YAD EZRAH INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue -3%
TV
TOV VACHESED INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue -28%
PI
PARDES INSTITUTE
5× · 2021–2025 · $35k

Funded once

AI
AGUDATH ISRAEL (ISRAEL RELIEF FUND)
one grant, 2024 · $25k
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLEDgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +39%
SI
SEFARIA INCgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +51%

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.

University of Judaism Foundation

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Sherit Isroel

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Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah

—

American Friends of Torat Eliyahu

Philanthropy

American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation

Philanthropy

Idf Memorial Foundation

Philanthropy

Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation

Philanthropy

Vaad Hapula Inc

Support jewry in Israel

Religion

American Friends of Tzir Hemed

Philanthropy

American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion

American Friends of Israel Organizations Inc

Funding of organizations qualified under section 501(c) or equivalent as operating for charitable, religious, or educational purposes, or that would so qualify based on the nature of such organization's operations

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Us Friends of Yad Ezrah Inc; the most unlike its peers is Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 39 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/17

Grantees still filing

8/17

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$260,600Philanthropy$149,000International$73,000Education$40,000Arts & Culture$37,600Health$13,200Religion$6,000

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY23.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Nash Family Foundation · The Russell Berrie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good

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 Tlk Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tlk Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Tlk Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Tlk Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home