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The Tzedakah Fund at a glance

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The Tzedakah Fund

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.

$564k
Granted FY2025still arriving
92
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0169% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$2.4MPhilanthropy$435kCommunity Improvement$224kEducation$121kInternational$116kHuman Services$88kHealth$38kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 92 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k77 grants · $188k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $211k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
$2,600
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$114,962
CONG ZICHRON YISROEL$50,000
CONG AHAVAS TZDOKA VACHESED$36,600
KEREN ZICHRON HENYA$28,000
KOL YAAKOV$20,000
HANC$20,000
YAD YEHUDA OF GREATER WASHINGTON$15,000
FRIENDS OF TOLDOS TZVI$13,800
RABBINICAL ACADEMY MESIVTA RABBI CHAIM BERLIN$13,400
GEMACH CHESSED$13,300
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGDAL TORAH$11,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YADIR TORAH$10,000
SHALVA HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAT CHAIM$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA D'MIR$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $174k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HAKSHIVA: $1k → 17%AHAVAS YISROEL: $24k → 15%AHAVAS YISROEL: $200 → 15%MOSDOS NESIVAS SHALOM: $24k → 14%KEREN ZICHRON HENYA: $35k → 11%KEREN ZICHRON HENYA: $28k → 11%EZRAS CHOLIM DSATMAR: $500 → 20%KEREN ZICHRON HENYA: $18k → 11%BELEV ACHAD: $2k → 17%MOSDOS NESIVAS SHALOM: $8k → 14%MOSDOS NESIVOS SHALOM: $6k → 14%KEREN HATZEDAKAH: $5k → 11%OZER DALIM OF LAKEWOOD: $4k → 11%SHALOM TIKVAH: $2k → 11%AHAVAS CHESED FUND: $250 → 20%AHAVAS TZEDOKOS: $896 → 11%MENUCHA: $4k → 11%MENUCHA: $2k → 11%AHAVAS TZEDOKOS: $200 → 11%MENUCHA: $1k → 11%MENUCHA: $1k → 11%MISASKIM OF MARYLAND: $500 → 11%LINKS FAMILY INC: $8k → 20%UNITED CHARITY INSTITUTIONS OF JERUSALEM: $300 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MD
NM
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 141 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

141 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2025, 90 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

141
239

Total granted

$3.4M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+15%

Still filing today

23%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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 YA'ADIR TORAH
    5× · 2021–2025 · $172k · revenue +159%
  • GC
    GEMACH CHESSED INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $89k · revenue +95%
  • LD
    LIMUDEI DA'AS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $73k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • NI
    NER ISRAEL RABBINICAL COLLEGE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $102k
  • RC
    RABBINICAL COLLEGE NETIV HADAAT
    one grant, 2023 · $86k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABBINICAL COLLEGE NETIV
    one grant, 2023 · $65k
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
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
3
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
4
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
5
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
6
Ahavas Torah V'chesed
Philanthropy
7
Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship
Religion
8
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
10
Gemilas Chesed Kramer Inc
Philanthropy
11
Zichron Moshe Elihu Tzedoka Fund
Philanthropy
12
Kollel Nefesh Hachaim Inc
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva Ruach Chaim Inc; the most unlike its peers is Camp Extreme D/B/a Project Extreme. 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

84 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 84 of the 422 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)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/84
Grantees still filing
50/84
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION AHAVAS TZDOKAH VCHESED INC: $516,996 · OtherCONGREGATION AHAVAS TZDOKAH VCHESED INCIndividual grant recipient: $401,899 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVE INC: $223,700 · OtherCOMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVE INCRABINNICAL COLLEGE NETIV HADAAT: $165,000 · Other+159 more: $2,293,514 · Other+159 moreMAALOT: $263,000 · ReligionMAALOTLIMUDEI DA'AS INC: $73,400 · ReligionLIMUDEI DA…YESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $25,800 · ReligionYESHIVA OF…YESHIVAS OHR V'DAAS: $18,000 · Religion+9 more: $75,780 · Religion+9 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YA'ADIR TORAH: $172,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMAT BET SHEMESH INC: $60,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $46,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THORAT CHAJM INC: $43,000 · International+1 more: $10,500 · InternationalGEMACH CHESSED INC: $89,000 · PhilanthropySHUVU RETURN INC: $45,000 · PhilanthropyKEREN KIRYAT SEFER INC: $44,600 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHASDEI YOSEF: $20,000 · PhilanthropyYeshiva Kneses Hatorah Inc: $15,100 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,491 · PhilanthropyKEREN ZICHRON HENYA INC: $81,000 · Human ServicesMOSDOS NESIVAS SHALOM INC: $38,000 · Human ServicesAhavas Yisroel Fund Inc: $24,255 · Human ServicesKEREN HATZEDAKA INC: $8,600 · Human ServicesLinks Family Inc: $8,200 · Human ServicesMenucha Inc: $7,600 · Human ServicesSHALVA HIGH SCHOOL INC: $30,000 · EducationYESHIVA CHAYEI OLAM: $5,700 · EducationAHAVAS TORAH INC: $5,400 · EducationLaylah Inc: $3,600 · EducationJEWELS SCHOOL INC: $3,300 · EducationNACHLAS BAIS YAAKOV: $2,800 · EducationCAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME: $18,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,601,109Religion$455,980International$331,500Philanthropy$216,191Human Services$167,655Education$50,800Youth Development$18,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAALOT: $263,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YA'ADIR TORAH: $172,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetGEMACH CHESSED INC: $89,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetKEREN ZICHRON HENYA INC: $81,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetLIMUDEI DA'AS INC: $73,400 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGDAL TORAH INC: $70,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMAT BET SHEMESH INC: $60,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF TOLDOS TZVI INC: $50,300 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $46,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHUVU RETURN INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKEREN KIRYAT SEFER INC: $44,600 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THORAT CHAJM INC: $43,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetMOSDOS NESIVAS SHALOM INC: $38,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSHALVA HIGH SCHOOL INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAhavas Yisroel Fund Inc: $24,255 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHASDEI YOSEF: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME: $18,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYESHIVAS OHR V'DAAS: $18,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYeshiva Kneses Hatorah Inc: $15,100 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HALICHOT HA'ARETZ: $14,800 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $13,180 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKOLLEL OHR HATALMUD INC: $12,900 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of Koidenov Inc: $10,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONGREGATION TIFERETH BNAI TORAH: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetYESHIVA MARBEH TORAH: $9,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMenucha Inc: $7,600 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPEYLIM LEV LACHIM: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA CHAYEI OLAM: $5,700 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetALVIN S MINTZES HATZALAH OF BALTIMORE INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAHAVAS TORAH INC: $5,400 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetIN HIS IMAGE: $5,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLaylah Inc: $3,600 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetKamenitzer Yeshiva of Jerusalem: $3,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYESHIVA HAR TORAH: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWELS SCHOOL INC: $3,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA RUACH CHAIM INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNACHLAS BAIS YAAKOV: $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE BIKUR CHOLIM INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSimchas Esther Hachnosas Kalla Fund INC: $2,491 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCHILD LIFE SOCIETY INC: $2,300 over 4y, 0.3% 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 MAALOT ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YA'ADIR TORAH ↗
  • Who funds GEMACH CHESSED INC ↗
  • Who funds KEREN ZICHRON HENYA INC ↗
  • Who funds LIMUDEI DA'AS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGDAL TORAH INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMAT BET SHEMESH INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF TOLDOS TZVI INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC ↗
  • Who funds SHUVU RETURN INC ↗
  • Who funds KEREN KIRYAT SEFER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THORAT CHAJM INC ↗
  • Who funds MOSDOS NESIVAS SHALOM INC ↗
  • Who funds SHALVA HIGH SCHOOL 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.

Associated Jewish Cha…Jack Adjmi Family Fou…Gutman Family Foundat…The Dennis Berman Fam…The Ojc FundZichron Yechiel Meche…The Jmg FoundationZichron Chaim Charity…Gemsy Zay Foundation …The Basch Family Foun…Jewish Communal FundJewish Community Foun…
Associated Jewish Charities of BaltimoreMD76.2× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Gutman Family Foundation Inc · The Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc · The Ojc Fund · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · The Jmg Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Gemsy Zay Foundation Inc · The Basch Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Yeshiva Chayei Olam: 10% of income from government
  • Nachlas Bais Yaakov: 2% of income from government
  • Jewels School Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 422 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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