· Private foundation
The Yonah 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $917k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $281k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF EMEK LONE SOLDIERS INC | $181,843 |
| MELEHET MAHSHEVET JUDAICA LTD | $98,902 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF RICHMOND HILL | $40,000 |
| JEWISH RENAISSANCE CENTER | $40,000 |
| EMEK HEBREW DAY SCHOOL REF | $25,000 |
| YULA HIGH SCHOOL | $23,675 |
| CHABAD OF WEST HEMPSTEAD | $20,000 |
| GUIDELINES SERVICES (CHABAD HOUSE AT PENN) | $20,000 |
| CHABAD OF DANFORTH BEACHES | $20,000 |
| CIRCLE OF KINDNESS INC | $20,000 |
| CHABAD OF NEWTON INC | $20,000 |
| FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC | $20,000 |
| INDIANA JEWISH DISCOVERY CENTER | $20,000 |
| CHABAD OF MIDTOWN TORONTO | $20,000 |
| CHABAD OF NEWFOUNDLAND INC | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 77% of grant dollars ($1.2M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 23% that went abroad ($349k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 23% of all-years giving ($349k)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 45 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JRJEWISH RENAISSANCE CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $220k
- CLCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF CHESTNUT HILL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $60k
- COCIRCLE OF KINDNESS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue -2%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $20k
- COCHABAD OF THE BERKSHIRESone grant, 2023 · $20k
- SCSONOMA COUNTY CHABAD JEWISH CENTERone grant, 2023 · $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.
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.
Support of religious schools in Israel
Support institutions that are set up for prayer and the study of traditional jewish texts
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.
None
Charity
To award scholarships and grants to students from the United States attending Yeshivas Gedolah Matisyahu in the State of Israel
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 55 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Setton Foundation · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Fjc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Yonah Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Yonah Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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