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The Tzedakah 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.

$81k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
40%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$36,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 28
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$295k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations The Tzedakah Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationHealthReligionInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$47k40%
FY20245$23k40%
FY202312$143k58%
FY202219$196k63%
FY202128$188k64%
FY20207$100k14%
FY201923$94k39%
FY201828$140k82%
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What it funded, over time

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

Religion$904kPhilanthropy$309kEducation$96kHuman Services$28kHealth$23kCivil Rights$2kFood & Nutrition$860

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Friends of Sfath Emeth Yeshiva$108,60051%
Bnos Perel$105,0002n/a
Gerer Yeshiva and Mesivta Bais Yisroel$87,7504n/a
Friends of Harim$66,0506n/a
Mosdos Hatorah Vhachesed of Pnei Menachem Inc$36,80022%
Manhattan High School for Girls$36,0001n/a
Cong Avi Ezri Inc$30,0001n/a
Mercaz Hatorah Vehachinch$29,0003n/a
Ahavat Yisroel Humanity Inc$22,85010%
Talmud Torah Ohel Yochanan$22,4003n/a
Show all 53 grantees
All grantees of The Tzedakah Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Friends of Sfath Emeth Yeshiva$108,60051%
Bnos Perel$105,0002n/a
Gerer Yeshiva and Mesivta Bais Yisroel$87,7504n/a
Friends of Harim$66,0506n/a
Mosdos Hatorah Vhachesed of Pnei Menachem Inc$36,80022%
Manhattan High School for Girls$36,0001n/a
Cong Avi Ezri Inc$30,0001n/a
Mercaz Hatorah Vehachinch$29,0003n/a
Ahavat Yisroel Humanity Inc$22,85010%
Talmud Torah Ohel Yochanan$22,4003n/a
Cong Oros Bais Yaakov of Lakewood$20,00030%
Hadar Bais Yaakov Inc$18,60011%
Bonei Olam Inc$18,00010%
Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway$16,3321n/a
Kupat Eizer Nisuin Bais Yisroel$12,6002n/a
Kolel Chasidei Gur$11,0002n/a
Yeshiva Gedolah of Monmouth County Inc$10,0001n/a
Congregation Lev Simcha$10,0001n/a
Mosdos Pnei Menachem Inc$10,00010%
Mevakshei Torah$6,0001n/a
Nesivos Bais Yaakov$5,0001n/a
Cong Gemach Bnei Pinchos$5,0001n/a
Ohr Chodosh$4,7004n/a
Friends of Yeshiva Sifsei Tzadik$3,00021%
Zichron Shlomo$2,5002n/a
The Jewish Heritage Foundation$2,0001n/a
Monroe Benevolent Society$2,0001n/a
Keren Yagdil Torah$1,8001n/a
Nachzik Chazak Inc$1,80010%
Mosdos Viznitz$1,8001n/a
Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society Inc$1,80010%
Cong Shaarei Chesed$1,8001n/a
We Love Kids Inc$1,80018%
Avihem Inc$1,50010%
Chizuk Hatorah Inc$1,5002n/a
Congrgation Madrich Bunim Inc$1,2001n/a
Yeshiva Yagdil Torah$1,0002n/a
Chai Lifeline Inc$1,00010%
Gan Yisroel$1,0001n/a
Mesivta Ahavas Hatorah$1,00010%
Dressed With Dignity Inc$1,00010%
Refuah Yeshuah$1,0001n/a
World Hope Inc$8601n/a
Bayswater Community Mikveh Association$6002n/a
Friends of Lenefesh Tidreshenu Inc$50010%
Yeshiva Gedoleh Ohr Yisroel$5001n/a
Alumni of the Rabbinical College Knesseth Israel of Slabodka Kowna$50010%
Simchas Esther Hachnosas Kalla Fund INC$36010%
Rivkah Laufer Bikur Cholim$18010%
Relief Resources Inc$18010%
Bais Yaakov D Chassidei Gur$1801n/a
Sar Shalom Inc$1001n/a
Misaskim Corp$10010%

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($279k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Tzedakah Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Friends of Sfath Emeth Yeshiva: $108,600 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMosdos Hatorah Vhachesed of Pnei Menachem Inc: $36,800 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAhavat Yisroel Humanity Inc: $22,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCong Oros Bais Yaakov of Lakewood: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHadar Bais Yaakov Inc: $18,600 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMosdos Pnei Menachem Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Yeshiva Sifsei Tzadik: $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNachzik Chazak Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRofeh Cholim Cancer Society Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWe Love Kids Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetAvihem Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChai Lifeline Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMesivta Ahavas Hatorah: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDressed With Dignity Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Lenefesh Tidreshenu Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlumni of the Rabbinical College Knesseth Israel of Slabodka Kowna: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSimchas Esther Hachnosas Kalla Fund INC: $360 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRivkah Laufer Bikur Cholim: $180 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRelief Resources Inc: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMisaskim Corp: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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 FundNY62× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Chaim Maleh Foundation · Zecher Avrohom Inc · Friends of Mosdot Goor · Park Charitable Trust · Westlawn Foundation · Eastlawn Foundation · Alternative Energy Foundation · Birchas Mordechai Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Lart Charitable Trust · Yislawn Fund

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.

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Find your warmest path to The Tzedakah 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.

About The Tzedakah Foundation

How much does The Tzedakah Foundation give?
The Tzedakah Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $80,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Tzedakah Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (66%), Philanthropy (23%), Education (7%).
Who are The Tzedakah Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Friends of Sfath Emeth Yeshiva ($109k), Bnos Perel ($105k), Gerer Yeshiva and Mesivta Bais Yisroel ($88k).
Does The Tzedakah Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Tzedakah 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 Tzedakah Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Chaim Maleh Foundation, Zecher Avrohom Inc.
Where is The Tzedakah Foundation based?
The Tzedakah Foundation is based in NY.

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 93 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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