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The Tzedakah Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Religion$904kPhilanthropy$309kEducation$96kHuman Services$28kHealth$23kCivil Rights$2kFood & Nutrition$860
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$295k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MANHATTAN HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS$36,000
THE OJC FUND$34,000
OROS BAIS YAAKOV$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BNEI TORAH$4,200
CONG MADRICH BUNIM$1,200
Individual grant recipient$450
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NACHZIK CHAZAK: $2k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $18k → 20%AHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY: $23k → 20%AVIHEM: $2k → 20%RELIEF RESOURCES: $180 → 20%MISASKIM: $100 → 20%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.
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$666k · 27 repeat orgs$339k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +139% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
61

Total granted

$666k
$302k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+139%
+13%

Still filing today

15%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationReligionHealthCivil RightsOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SFATH EMETH YESHIVA
    5× · 2018–2022 · $109k · revenue +88%
  • MH
    MOSDOS HATORAH VHACHESED OF PNEI MENACHEM INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $37k · revenue +551%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF YESHIVA SIFSEI TZADIK
    2× · 2017–2021 · $3k · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • CA
    CONG AVI EZRI INC
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • MH
    MACHZIKEI HADAS RABBINICAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • AY
    AHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $23k · revenue -11%
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
Ohr Avrohom and Moshe Inc

We support religious organizations in the us and israel by providing grants.

Public Benefit
3
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
4
Zichron Meshilem Feish Inc

Provides finacial assistance to needy individuals and to religious, charitable organizations

—
5
Mishken Chaim Rivnits

Assistance to the indigent

Religion
6
Chasdei Yetev Lev Inc

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

—
7
Yeshiva Yismach Moshe

Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide funds to needy individuals in the state of israel.

International
8
Birchas Yaakov Kollel Inc

Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith

—
9
Ohr Yosef Inc

To help disadvantaged children, widows and orphans by providing food, clothing, supplies and grants to charitable tax exempt organizations.

Philanthropy
10
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
11
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

—
12
Zera Koidesh Inc

To award financial grants to religios orthodox jewish organizations and to help by financial means, the needy, sick and disabled people.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ahavat Yisroel Humanity Inc; the most unlike its peers is World Hope 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

26 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. 26 of the 93 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
18/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BNOS PEREL: $105,000 · OtherBNOS PERELGERER YESHIVA AND MESIVTA BAIS YISROEL: $87,750 · OtherGERER YESHIVA AND MESIVTA BAIS YISROELFRIENDS OF HARIM: $66,050 · OtherFRIENDS OF HARIMAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BNEI TORAH: $51,300 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BNEI TORAHHAFTER: $39,198 · OtherMANHATTAN HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $36,000 · OtherCONG AVI EZRI INC: $30,000 · OtherMERCAZ HATORAH VEHACHINCH: $29,000 · Other+61 more: $308,861 · Other+61 moreTHE OJC FUND: $309,000 · EducationTHE OJC FUNDFRIENDS OF MOSDOT GOOR: $38,300 · EducationFRIENDS OF MOSDOT GOORCONG OROS BAIS YAAKOV OF LAKEWOOD: $20,000 · EducationCONG OROS BAIS YAAKOV OF LAKEW…+2 more: $2,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SFATH EMETH YESHIVA: $108,600 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIE…MOSDOS HATORAH VHACHESED OF PNEI MENACHEM INC: $36,800 · PhilanthropyMOSDOS HATORA…HADAR BAIS YAAKOV INC: $18,600 · PhilanthropyHADAR BAIS YA…+3 more: $2,660 · PhilanthropyAHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY INC: $22,850 · Human ServicesBonei Olam Inc: $18,000 · Human ServicesNACHZIK CHAZAK INC: $1,800 · Human ServicesAVIHEM INC: $1,500 · Human Services+2 more: $280 · Human ServicesGLOBAL CENTER OF GUR INC: $12,000 · ReligionMOSDOS PNEI MENACHEM INC: $10,000 · ReligionFRIENDS OF YESHIVA SIFSEI TZADIK: $3,000 · ReligionWE LOVE KIDS INC: $1,800 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $1,000 · HealthTHE JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Civil RightsWorld Hope Inc: $860 · International
Other$753,159Education$369,300Philanthropy$166,660Human Services$44,430Religion$25,000Health$2,800Civil Rights$2,000International$860

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE OJC FUND: $309,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SFATH EMETH YESHIVA: $108,600 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF MOSDOT GOOR: $38,300 over 2y, 0.3% 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 budgetGLOBAL CENTER OF GUR INC: $12,000 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
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 THE OJC FUND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SFATH EMETH YESHIVA ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF MOSDOT GOOR ↗
  • Who funds MOSDOS HATORAH VHACHESED OF PNEI MENACHEM INC ↗
  • Who funds AHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds CONG OROS BAIS YAAKOV OF LAKEWOOD ↗
  • Who funds HADAR BAIS YAAKOV INC ↗
  • Who funds Bonei Olam Inc ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL CENTER OF GUR INC ↗
  • Who funds MOSDOS PNEI MENACHEM INC ↗

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 FundChaim Maleh FoundationZecher Avrohom IncFriends of Mosdot GoorPark Charitable TrustWestlawn FoundationEastlawn FoundationAlternative Energy Fo…Birchas Mordechai Cha…Jewish Communal FundLart Charitable TrustYislawn Fund
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Tzedakah Foundation?

    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.

    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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